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Mr. Gingrich, The Faith Community Has Occupied Your Campaign

Joi Ruth Orr | Posted 04.02.2012

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We are fed up and done with politicians and public figures debasing our communities and children. We will not stand for it.

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PHOTOS: Modern Day Exorcism Performed In Mexico City

Posted 01.25.2012

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The New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia describes an exorcism as "the act of driving out, or warding off, demons, or evil spirits, from persons, places, ...

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An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich From the Pastors of Poor Children

Joi Ruth Orr | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Delaware, Poor, Faith and Politics, Newt Gingrich, Pastors, Children, African Americans, Black Voices News

As a candidate vying for the Republican Presidential nomination, to suggest that poor children collectively lack a work ethic and drive for legal and productive work is entirely classist. Our children deserve better than your degrading rhetoric.

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Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God

Eliot Daley | Posted 11.30.2011

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We are smothering God. And our church. We're engaged in an unholy combination of implicit theocide and communal suicide.

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Will Politicians Listen to Pastors?

Jim Wallis | Posted 09.13.2011

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Our country is in the midst of a clash between two competing moral visions, between those who believe in the common good, and those who believe individual good is the only good. It's time our leaders in Washington listen to someone other then themselves.

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Wanted: 1,000 Pastors For the Poor

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.16.2011

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There is a policy myth is that churches and charities alone could take care of the problems of poverty -- especially if we slashed taxes. But this really has more to do with libertarian political ideology than good theology.

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Fast Food Marketing And The Local Church

Brady Boyd | Posted 08.03.2011

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Have we, as American pastors, given up our calling as shepherds and unknowingly become fast food entrepreneurs who are building a religious business and not a church?

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Pastoral Transitions In A Social Media World

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 06.01.2011

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May 31, 2011 marked my final day as the pastor of Mission Bay Community Church and this post will be the last time, for a while, that I'll focus on my...

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Why Pastors Struggle With Confronting Domestic Violence

John Shore | Posted 07.09.2011

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I hear from a disheartening number of women who write in to relate their stories of pastors who, in one way or another, advised them to stick with their abusive husbands. How could these good, well-intentioned men give advice that's so egregiously wrong?

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Reassessing Motherhood

Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 11.17.2011

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What is the most important in our parenting? What do we want for children? Is it success? Is it happiness? Is it something else?

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100 Reasons for a Christmas Miracle

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Advent is a season of hope. The DREAM Act has been before Congress for the past 10 years. The time for waiting is over. It is time for the Senate to give hope and a future to hundreds of thousands of other DREAMers across the US.

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This Isn't About Wallis vs. Beck -- It's About Biblical Social Justice

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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While I have agreed that the cause of social justice has sometimes been politicized for ideological purposes by both Left and Right, I continue to defend the term itself as biblical.

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Protest Against Muslim Imam Fails

Carol Howard Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

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False rumors about Imam Abdul-Malik, a leader of D.C.'s interfaith movement, serve as reminders that religious intolerance often beats in the heart of conflicts.

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In Spite of Glenn Beck's New Threats, My Invitation to Dialogue Stands

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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I thought Beck's rather extreme and misguided comments needed a response, but I did not attack him personally; nor will I.

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Obama's Spiritual Cabinet Shapes Policy, Tends His Soul

religionnews.com | Daniel Burke | Posted 05.25.2011

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For 10 minutes, the president and pastors prayed for peace, an economic recovery, protection for U.S. soldiers, and to be guided by wisdom and power beyond himself.

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Biblical Social Justice and Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Glenn Beck says Christians should leave their social justice churches, so I say Christians should leave Beck. Beck attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show.

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Elizabeth Warren and Goliath

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Elizabeth Warren, a good Methodist, warns: The banks are trying everything they can think of to kill financial reform. And we must not let them do that.

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African Children Denounced As "Witches" By Christian Pastors

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 05.25.2011

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EKET, Nigeria — The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. His family pastor h...

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Pastors Camp On Billboard To Raise Money For Charity

Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lake Wales Florida, Shawn Rudy, Charity Organizations, Lake Wales First Assembly of God, Up in the Air, Walter Nelson, Charity, Pastors, Impact News

Two pastors in Lake Wales, Fla., spent a full week on top of a billboard, 21 feet off the ground, to promote their charity campaign and try and raise ...

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Changing the Image of Religion: The New Faith Coalition

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2011

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The day after the inauguration, I will be joining religious leaders at the National Prayer Service for our new president. I will pray that this new era can change the image of religion in our country.

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A Pastoral Strategy for an Economic Crisis

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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What is a Christian response to a deepening economic crisis like this? What should people of faith be thinking, saying, and doing?

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Which Inflammatory Pastor Are You?

236.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Pastor, Ted Hagee, Michael Pfleger, McCain Pastor, Pastors, Rod Parsley, Jeremiah Wright, Politics News

Barack Obama and John McCain are now tied two for two in the race to see who can get the most inflammatory Pastors in their corner. This week we were ...

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