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The historic passage of a health care bill came with an inescapably cruel irony. There is an amendment in the bill that threatens the health of millions of American women.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Sure, you can blame the advertisements, the TV shows and the greedy bankers if you want, but it still comes down to who drank the Kool-Aid, not who made the Kool-Aid.
Jim Selman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
Our media commentary is rarely about what is happening now - mostly it's about what happened in the past or what someone thinks is going to happen in the future.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Anyone who has ever worked with victims of various tragedies will know that there is a great deal of difference between what happened and how the person responds to what happened.
Ron Ashkenas | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
People want uncomplicated products, straightforward guidance, and things that work quickly and simply the first time, without lots of extra effort.
Russell Bishop | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
To me, the root cause of dissatisfaction and unhappiness often lies in the areas of focus we choose for ourselves.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
The reality of our life, whether we like it or not, includes both ends of this spectrum. Everything is happening on its own and everything is flowing through intention.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Regardless of the outcome, health care reform today comes down to four simple, words: accessibility, affordability, choice, and competition. For good measure, there is also perhaps a fifth word: right,
Zack Cooper | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Three misconceptions have driven the health care debate off course and have given rise to some of the problems in the Baucus proposal. These misconceptions need to be corrected so we can get back on track.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
My amendment offers a common ground solution to a very challenging policy question -- namely how do we deal with abortion services in health reform legislation.
Russell Bishop | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living
As difficult as things may be, there's almost always something we can do to improve...Fundamentally, the most important choice any of us can make when confronted with life challenges is how we respond.
Lisa Guest | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
I'm beginning to see the error in my ways and how a dark overview has robbed my life of much joy and possible adventure.
Russell Bishop | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Many people feel trapped by their circumstances. The main problem we need to address when feeling trapped, is the feeling of being trapped - not the circumstances, per se, but what we tell ourselves when we find ourselves in that trapped set of feelings.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
Enjoy the consequences of the choices you make: un-mask a "have to" to find a "want."
Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
It's an age-old question that moms ask themselves on a daily basis -- am I doing this right? Motherhood to most is a type of training-in-progress, we learn as we go along.
Megan Carpentier | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
If the anti-choice movement has its way, the moment one sperm eats its way through an egg's outer shell would be the last moment in human development that wouldn't be covered by the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, it's a rather lucrative racket.
Gangaji | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
You discover your story by noticing what you are telling yourself, over and over. Notice what you tell yourself about your past, your present, and your future.
Jim Selman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living
We somehow looked beyond color, religion, education, class, income and all the other things we've used to separate us from each other.
John Morton | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
So if you are not happy with what you are doing, it may be a sign that you have a bad attitude. Just correct your attitude.
Cecile Richards | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
It was only a matter of time before the right-wing campaign against health care reform began to focus on abortion, and last week the Family Research Council pulled out all the stops.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Want to know how to win a culture war? Don't fight one.
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 08.15.2009 | Entertainment
We must face not only the physical death suffered by one of Harry's mentors but the death of our ability to blindly idealize our leaders, to accept them as unquestionably good.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
The assertion that unless Obama bows to the most conservative Catholic position he will lose widespread support is a scare tactic of the right.
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Estimates of maternal morbidity vary from 16 to 50 million annually and include such profoundly disabling conditions as vesico-vaginal fistulae, a condition many consider a fate akin to living death
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Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics