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Woe to You, Legislators!

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.14.2011

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Jim Wallis

The president's fiscal message this week was on point, and will have to be repeated over and over again in the months ahead against all the pressures to compromise.

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Robert Putnam, 'American Grace' Author, Holds Religious Threads To Social Fabric

Posted 05.25.2011

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By G. Jeffery MacDonald Religion News Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (RNS) Harvard University scholar Robert Putnam has earned a reputation as an expert on...

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Finding The Spirituality In New Media

Steven Barrie-Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steven Barrie-Anthony

Might it be that our thirst for faster and more ubiquitous communication (snail mail, telegraph, telephone, email, text message, Facebook) strains toward some kind of mystical union?

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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