Sacrifice

Is Social Security Unconstitutional?

Terry Newell | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Liberty, Social Security, Sacrifice, Affordable Care Act, Community, Medicare, Constitution, Health Care Reform, Individual Mandate, Health Care, Social Security Reform, Politics News
Terry Newell

If the Supreme Court holds that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, which requires every American adult to purchase health insurance or pay a fine, is unconstitutional, why could not Social Security be next?

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What We Give Up For Lent: Rethinking 'Fasting'

Maria Mayo | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Christianity, Hunger, Poverty, Lent, Fasting, Sacrifice, Lent Reflection, Lenten Reflection, Lent Fasting, Religion News
Maria Mayo

Taking Lent seriously means recognizing and seeking to break those fasts. It means not taking the Easter celebration and relief for granted.

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Humanity And Sacrifice: Giving Up ESPN For Lent

Michael Rossmann, SJ | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Player Efficiency Ratings, John Hollinger, Blake Griffin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Derrick Rose, Jeremy Lin, Espn, The New York Times, Sacrifice, Notre Dame, Lent, The Jesuit Post, Super Bowl, Spiritual Exercises, Miami Heat, David Brooks, ESPN.Com, LeBron James, Religion News
Michael Rossmann, SJ

Here, though, is my question: would it be better for me to give up paying attention to sports beyond this Lent? Would I be a more spiritual person? A more productive minister?

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What Would You Sacrifice To Repair The World?

Rabbi Josh Feigelson | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Movement, Social Justice, Occupy Faith, Sacrifice, Religious Sacrifice, MLK Day, Judaism, Jewish Social Justice, MLK Day of Service, Religion News
Rabbi Josh Feigelson

"When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory," Dr. King said the night before he was killed.

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Take Our Children, Please!

Steve Fraser | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Bond Market, The One Percent, Income Inequality, Wealth Disparity, We Are the 99 Percent, Sacrifice, Occupy Wall Street, Income Disparity, Jonathan Swift, #Occupywallstreet, New York Stock Exchange, Politics News
Steve Fraser

In 1729, Jonathan Swift's idea was simple: the starving Irish should sell their own children to the rich as food. I want to suggest that we put in motion a similar undertaking. The basic idea is that we offer ourselves up as a sacrifice to the bond markets.

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The Social Dimension of the Debt Ceiling Crisis

Paul Stoller | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Division of Labor, Public Edcuation, Social Security, Debt Ceiling, President Barack Obama, Sacrifice, Radical Indivdualism, Infasctructure, The Tea Party, Society, Republicans, Medicare, Medicaid, Democrats, Libertarianism, The Social Contract, Politics News
Paul Stoller

We can live in a society in which there is a social contract and a sense of sacrifice for the common good, or we can live in a society in which radical individualism has replaced the social contract.

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The Economy: Sorcery or Sacrifice?

Terry Newell | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Tax Cuts, Jobs, Investment, Economy, Sacrifice, Business News
Terry Newell

Asking Americans for material sacrifice is not unimaginable. Presidents have done it before. FDR did it to win a war. Truman did it to win the peace. Shared sacrifice can actually bind -- as well as build -- a nation

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Why Do You Give Too Much?

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Receiving, Relationships, Sacrifice, Giving, Power, Healthy Love, How to Foster Healthy Relationships, Healthy Relationship Dynamics, What Are the Dynamics of Healthy Relationships, Wisdom, Healthy Living News
Srinivasan Pillay

Do you have dog-like faithfulness despite being treated as inhuman most of the time? Do you feel guilty whenever you get anything?

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Why Putting Your Kids First May Be Killing Your Marriage

Vicki Larson | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: David Code, Indulgences, Single Mothers, Good Parenting, Kate Winslet, Divorce, Shoshana Alexander, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Single Parents, Sacrifice, Ayelet Waldman, Helicopter Parents, Needs, Divorce News
Vicki Larson

It wasn't too many years ago that parents believed children should be "seen and not heard." Now they've become the center of our universe. But these h...

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What It Means To Sacrifice

Richard Geldard | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Spiritual Living, Caregiving, Spiritual Laws Emerson, The Giving Life, Sacrifice, Meaning of Sacrifice, Caregiver Sacrifice, Emerson Spiritual Laws, Caregiver, Sacrifice Meaning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Making Sacrifices, Generosity, Giving Back, Inspiration, Healthy Living News
Richard Geldard

All of us can look at our lives and count the times we thought we had made a sacrifice -- that is, giving up our personal desires to meet the needs of others.

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Leadership at the Tipping Point -- The Debt and a Time for Shared Sacrifice

Terry Newell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Debt, Courage, Federal Budget Deficit, Politicians, Sacrifice, National Debt, Budget Cuts, Budget, Abraham Lincoln, Public Service, Politics News
Terry Newell

The conventional wisdom is that everyone wants to cut the debt and the deficit, as long as it means somebody else has to suffer. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Americans are willing to sacrifice.

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A Toast to the Bravery and Sacrifice of Whistleblowers

John Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Integrity, Iraq War, Sacrifice, National Security, Whistleblowers, Bravery, Abu Ghraib, Impact News
John Jackson

I toast the bravery and sacrifice of all those who decide to put the public interest before their own, who take action rather than turn a blind eye, and who pay the consequences long after they leave the headlines.

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Ritualistically Decapitated Goat Head Found In Prospect Park

brooklynpaper.com | Community Newspaper Group / Stephen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ritual Killing, Animals, Prospect Park, Ny News, Sacrifice, New York News

It turns out that Prospect Park is the perfect place to get your main ingredient for goats head soup. Two days after the gutted carcass and the ent...

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The 'Plastic' Nature Of God

George Elerick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christianity, Old Testament, Abraham, Sacrifice, Torah, God Is Dead, Violence in the Bible, Religion News
George Elerick

I think the future of God lies not in religion, but outside of it.

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The Comet

Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lies, Politics, Loyalty, Principle, Sacrifice, Sacred, Body Politic, Tenacity, Devotion, Dogs, Healthy Living News
Robert Ellis Gordon

As it so happens I'm acquainted with the child. She's my eldest niece, Rebecca. This happened back when she was eight, as she painfully, reluctantly came to the conclusion that her Uncle Peter was crazy.

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It's Time to Grow Up

Ben Tripp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Americans, Tea Party, Economy, Libertarians, Selfishness, Sacrifice, Depression, Social Contract, Responsibility, Tax Dollars, Media, Social Spending, Childhood, Capitalism, Libertarian, Patriotism, Wealth, Wpa, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Ben Tripp

We can call it libertarianism, patriotism, conservatism, or anything we want, but the truth is this: an ideology of selfishness has gripped the nation.

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Coronation of the New Queen of Thrillers: S.J. Bolton

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British History, Thrillers, British Folklore, Sacrifice, Blood Harvest, S.J. Bolton, Awakening, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

I'd like to dub a new queen in the realm of thrillers: S.J. Bolton. All of Bolton's novels feature strong and smart female characters, and you could call Bolton's books thrillers for intelligent women.

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Ultimate Acts of Sacrifice: On Bees and Men

Oren Harman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Origin of Species, George Price, Biology, Books, Natural Selection, Altruism, Charles Darwin, Sacrifice, Natural Mysteries, The Price of Altruism, Reading, Books News
Oren Harman

If nature, as the poet Tennyson had put it, was always "red in tooth and claw", how could one explain benevolence and sacrifice?

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How Not to Give an Oval Office Speech

Robin Lakoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy Crisis, Crisis, Obama Speech, Oval Office, Sacrifice, Rhetoric, President Obama, Politics News
Robin Lakoff

Obama totally missed his opportunity to ask for, or even demand, sacrifice; specifically, that all of us immediately go into rehab for our oil addiction.

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We Must Respond to the Needs of the Gulf Coast

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Rigs, Relationship, President Obama, Empathetic, Economy, Teachable Moment, Sacrifice, Oil Rig, Addiction, Struggle, Obama, Oil, Rediscovering Values, Oil Companies, Exxon, Whitewash, Pubic Relations, Oil Spill, Change, British Petroleum, Chris Matthews, Government Relationship, Creation, Green News
Jim Wallis

At the heart of the Christian tradition lies the belief that transformation requires sacrifice. Deep and abiding change is hard. But the BP leak is only the latest sign that our society must do exactly that.

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Ask Not What Big Oil Can Do for You ...

Terry Newell | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Oil, Conservation, Gulf Oil Spill, Sacrifice, Healthy Living News
Terry Newell

Ask what you can do for Big Oil. Seriously, if a politician were to utter those words, he might be "clarifying my meaning" or insisting his words wer...

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Goodness Precedes Greatness: A Call For New Heroes In Troubled Times

Jon Foreman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heroism, Inspiration, Songwriting, Hope, Heroes, Sacrifice, Jon Foreman, Impact News
Jon Foreman

I would like to suggest that the best parts of our human nature can be seen in sacrifice or surrender. A mother sacrificing her time for her child, a teacher devoting her afternoons to help students off-the-clock. These are truly our most incredible moments as a species: moments of unmerited kindness.

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Obama's First Wartime Thanksgiving

Jeff Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bravery, World War Two, Sacrifice, Thanksgiving, Hurtgen Forest, Afganistan War, Obama, Wartime, Courage Under Fire, Omaha Beach, Casualties, Gis, Thanksgiving Commentary, U.S. Army, 83rd Infantry Division, Killed-in-Action, Politics News
Jeff Stein

Roosevelt thought sacrifice cause for celebration. He proclaimed Nov. 23, 1944, "a national day of Thanksgiving." Now another president faces Thanksgiving with troops dying in the field.

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Is Sleeping A Good Investment Of Your Time?

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stress, Addictive Habits, Value, Time, Bored Panda, Investment, Sacrifice, D H Lawrence, Meditation, Carl Jung, Peace, The New Wealth Book, Worry, William Shakespeare, Sleep, Healthy Living News
Anne Naylor

The investment of sleep may give you, through your dreams, information that will guide you to improved outcomes in your waking life. You might make better decisions and gain clarity.

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A Nobel Prayer

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, President Obama, Abuse, Henry Kissinger, Sacrifice, United States, Prophecy, Pray, Bill Kristol, Gandhi, Weapons, Rush Limbaugh, Commitment, Desmond Tutu, Presidency, Peace, Prayer, America, Foreign Policy, Muslim, Nelson Mandela, Nuclear Weapons, Nobel Peace Prize, Conflict, Martin Luther King Jr., Military, New York Times, Worldview, Israeli, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.

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