Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?
Johann Hari | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
The English language needs a spring cleaning to purge phrases that, while posing as neutral descriptions of the world, contain a hidden political agenda that then molds the assumptions of the listener.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
As a Christian who worships the Shabbat, I believe Ramadan is a wonderful way for Christians to remember their Muslim brothers and sisters
Terrence McNally | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
For part 2 of my interview with Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God, we discuss consciousness, physics, evolution, atheism, Obama and more.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
We have witnessed a spate of violent bullying and psychological assault, moods of hostility and derision which have stooped to levels that defy any clear intention to act for the greater good.
James M. Lynch | Posted 08.11.2009 | Living
How does taking a 25 hour break have anything to do with saving the world? Well for me, it is not only physical and spiritual recharging; it's also emotional and intellectual.
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
This is an interesting and refreshing subtext in Obama's entire speech -- he says things are "facts" and not opinions. Considering the lunacy that passes for "political debate" on American television screens -- where there are always two points of view, and every "fact" is subject to spin from one side or another -- it is a breath of fresh air.
Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
Demographics were the market segmentation choice of the last century, but ideology will rule this one.
Michael Shaw | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media
Waylon Lewis | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living
The nun behind Dead Man Walking, the best-selling book and movie offers a Christianity that's about mercy, compassion, forgiveness, humor. "It's all about waking up," Sister Helen says.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
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Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Time to evolve past Joe the Plumber, past Rush Limbaugh, past the politics and ideology that verge on those that launched the Spanish Inquisition.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
It's time America wake up to the fact that Christians in this country have become just as radicalized (albeit in other ways) as those who pervert Islam (or insert religion here) elsewhere.
Michael Rowe | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
The GOP has long prided itself on tarring the Democrats with "being out of touch with mainstream American values." Today, that tag seems more applicable to them.
Sandip Roy | Posted 05.20.2009 | Business
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Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.17.2009 | Living
When a person's altruistic impulses are directed toward winning converts, it is valid to ask whether they are actually serving human well-being or simply serving a mind virus.
Katie Halper | Posted 01.26.2009 | Living
I would like to give birth to a new holiday tradition. Forget the happy Hanukkah cards. How about thank you notes?
Scott Foval | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics
Rick Warren, what you are doing by turning to attack your critics as "Christophobes," is manipulating the core message.
Laurence Leamer | Posted 01.24.2009 | Business
This is a Christmas and Hanukah season like no other. Many people have lost money. Millions are out of work, and those who still have jobs fear for their own future. It is a bad time, but also a good time.
Jennifer Utz | Posted 01.18.2009 | World
Facing forced conversions, kidnapping for ransom, and murder, religious minorities represent a starkly disproportionate amount of those who've left their homes to find safety elsewhere.
Joe Cutbirth | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
Warren's selection is a thumb in the eye of every lesbian and gay citizen, and an insult to kind and decent Americans who believed that Obama's presidency was the beginning of a new era.
Cristina Page | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
The 2008 election may mark the moment religious voters put reason above rhetoric. The birth of the Obamagelical.
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living
Prayer doesn't necessarily change God, but it has the power to transformour hearts and minds.
Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics