Verse of the Day: Unjust Authorities

Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be your spoil, and that you may make the orphans your prey! What will you do on the day of …

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Bob Francis: Second Commandment Republicans

Time's Joe Klein makes some interesting observations about Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ("a political inconvenience, a destroyer of stereotypes"), asking whether or not "compassionate conservatism" is dead, and if poverty has a …

Verse of the Day: "Ministry to the Saints"

At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem in a ministry to the saints; for Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to share their resources with the poor among the saints at Jerusalem. They were pleased to do this, and indeed they owe it to them; for if the Gentiles …

Voice of the Day: Robert Llewelyn

True silence which is creative silence is the most demanding activity God asks of any of us. Here it is that heart and mind and will, memory, and imagination are gathered up and collected in God.

- Robert Llewelyn
from Love Bade Me Welcome

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Jim Wallis: Feeding the Wolves

This past weekend, my wife Joy Carroll Wallis was the commencement speaker at Goshen College in Indiana. She began with a story:

My hope today is to equip you with a warning and commission that might be helpful as you set out on this journey, as you begin the next …

Janna Hunter-Bowman: 'None of Us Knows Enough to Be Cynical'

How can U.S. policymakers and taxpayers know the truth if Colombia's victims aren't allowed to speak to them?

Dany is a 28-year-old husband, father, and banana vendor from San Onofre, a poor, rural municipality along the Caribbean coast. In the past seven years more than …

Alexia Salvatierra: La Alabanza es Medicina para el Alma (Praise is Medicine for the Soul)

When elements of the recent Pew study on Hispanic religiosity were first published last summer, a number of my colleagues in movements for social justice were surprised. Many were also worried.

According to the study (conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew …

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Sue Badeau: The Defeat of Victory

In the cacophony of words and voices swirling around the president's veto of the Iraq bill this week, two words stood out to me - "victory" and "defeat."

Opponents of the bill call it a timetable for defeat and urge us to push on for victory.

A question that has long been …

Verse of the Day: "Having Nothing, and Yet Possessing Everything"

We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see--we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

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Voice of the Day: Brother Roger of Taize

Living God, you want us to have hearts that are completely simple, to the point that the complicated things in life do not bring us to a halt. Through the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the Risen Christ, you come to open a way for us, a way that is possible; on it we …

Jim Rice: Cal Thomas on the 'End of the Religious Right'

Cal Thomas' essay "The Beginning of the End of the Religious Right?" uses the occasion of the closing of one of the Coral Ridge Ministries of D. James Kennedy to argue that:

Christians must first understand that the issues they most care about - abortion, same-sex …

Colin Mathewson: Sojourners Magazine Accepts Top Honors

Sojourners magazine was honored with 17 awards last week in Chicago at the annual convention of the Associated Church Press, North America's oldest interdenominational religious press association.

The "best of the Christian press" awards presented to Sojourners included …

Julie Clendenin: Notes From a Minivan

Sitting in the carpool line, I'm surrounded by a crowd of high-occupancy vehicles. Almost all of them are hued in the peaceful colors of a seascape - navy blue, metallic blue, blue-green, silver, and shimmering beige. There's not a lot of red or yellow here - no …