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Dancing to the beat of a new drum twelve years after 9/11

Common Ground News Service | Posted 05.08.2013 | World
Common Ground News Service

Endy Bayuni Jakarta - The Western and Muslim worlds drifted apart in the wake of 9/11. The 11 September 2001 suicide hijackings in the United States ...

Steven: Los Angeles, Nov. 19, 2007

Robert G. Zuckerman | Posted 04.15.2013 | Healthy Living
Robert G. Zuckerman

"Can I help you find anything?" he asks. "How 'bout the meaning of life?" I reply. Without hesitation, he tells me, "That's two aisles over, middle shelf, in a small can!"

The Story of the Common Good (Video)

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.05.2013 | Religion
Jim Wallis

We would take the time to sound out each syllable, word, and sentence until they got it right, "With malice toward none, with charity for all ..." While they were learning to read, I wanted them to absorb the words of Lincoln.

A Muslim Message To Pope Francis

Common Ground News Service | Posted 04.02.2013 | Religion
Common Ground News Service

I hope that Pope Francis will do what he can to work with Muslims and others in order to build an ark that will save this common humanity of ours. May God bless us all to be friends to one another.

On God's Side: For the Common Good

Jim Wallis | Posted 03.28.2013 | Religion
Jim Wallis

When did we trade the idea of public servants for the false idols of power and privilege? When did we trade governing for campaigning? And when did we trade valuing those with the best ideas for rewarding those with the most money?

Bridging the Gap

Common Ground News Service | Posted 04.28.2013 | World
Common Ground News Service

Knowing that the uneasy relations between Pakistan and the United States will continue to ebb and flow as American troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, he thinks that people-to-people contact is the only way out of the practice of demonising each other.

Finding Common Ground Between Sexuality and Spirituality

Antonia Blumberg | Posted 04.20.2013 | Religion
Antonia Blumberg

If religious, spiritual, activist and LGBT organizations, alike, are invested in nurturing a sustainable and fulfilling future, they have only to gain from providing the fodder for common ground.

On the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Republicans Applaud its True Meaning

Susan Bevan | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics
Susan Bevan

At its heart, Roe reaffirms American women's essential right to make personal health decisions privately and without interference from government.

Learning to Build Global Leaders From Around the World

Andy Braner | Posted 02.16.2013 | Home
Andy Braner

They're concerned with school, sports and social standing. They want to impress people around them so they feel important. They're longing for someone to validate them as people. And most of all, they just don't want to live life alone.

Mourning In The Middle Of Two Faiths

Eliza Wood | Posted 12.22.2012 | Religion
Eliza Wood

In the most important moments of life and death, when I might have hoped for some religious clarity, the lines of religion blurred right in front of me. It was no use leaning either toward or against them.

Irish Isle's Designs on Venetian Isles

John Lee | Posted 11.07.2012 | Arts
John Lee

Regular as the tides, another cultural acqua alta is washing over Venice now in the form of the Biennale Architetttura 2012.

Abstract Containers: A Ready-Made Architecture Exhibition

Mitch McEwen | Posted 11.07.2012 | Arts
Mitch McEwen

Abstract Containers effectively invites us to consider the city around us as if it were recognizably familiar but fundamentally altered.

From NYC to Dubai - Public Art Heats Up for the Summer

MutualArt | Posted 07.17.2012 | Arts
MutualArt

After a long, cold winter of hibernating inside museums, artists venture out into the heat this summer to create art in the public realm...

Elder Independence: Establishing Common Ground

Ilaina Edison | Posted 07.15.2012 | Healthy Living
Ilaina Edison

Whether you're caring for an aging parent or a neighbor in your apartment building, or helping a home health aide connect with your ill spouse, look to establish common ground to drive forward a successful caregiving relationship.

No Middle Ground

D. R. Tucker | Posted 04.17.2012 | Politics
D. R. Tucker

The images of extreme violence in South Boston and Charlestown in the fall of 1974 are still so lurid and so disturbing that one can't help wondering what exactly drives human beings to such behavior.

Alinsky, Foreclosures and Holding Banks Accountable

Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 04.01.2012 | Politics
Sanford D. Horwitt

Memo to the Obama Administration: if you want to see the makings of a national model to hold big banks accountable for fixing foreclosure-devastated neighborhoods, go to Milwaukee and talk to citizen leaders who are practicing what Saul Alinsky preached.

Counting On Every Acre

Leah Mayor | Posted 03.23.2012 | Green
Leah Mayor

Even with a surge of interest in "local food" and its central relationship to individual, community and global health, somehow it remains difficult for many of us to make the connection between the food we eat and the land that is required to grow it.

The Spiritual Side Of Facebook

Dennis Merritt Jones | Posted 03.14.2012 | Healthy Living
Dennis Merritt Jones

The Internet is the way of the future for marketing one's products and services; however, I believe it goes far beyond that. I believe Facebook is such a popular phenomena because people are hungry for connection.

Reflections on the Tea Party

Terry Newell | Posted 08.13.2011 | Politics
Terry Newell

The Tea Party may just be the canary in the coal mine, the harbinger of a looming explosion. We may ignore its current words and we may even ignore the group itself. We should not ignore the concern that brings both forth.

Permanent Homes for 100,000 Homeless Americans

Rosanne Haggerty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Rosanne Haggerty

Perhaps the most surprising thing that the Campaign is demonstrating is that it often costs communities far less to do something about homelessness than to do nothing.

75 Communities Campaign to House 100,000 Homeless

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

San Diego counts itself among the many communities around the country involved in a campaign to provide 100,000 chronically homeless people with a pla...

Common Ground on Abortion: A Study in Contrasts

Lanae Erickson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lanae Erickson

In the coming weeks, our divided government will have to work together to find a compromise on Title X cuts. For the sake of the country let's up it's reached through reason and not myopia.

10 Things This Liberal, Social Justice Christian, Progressive Democrat Has In Common With Conservative, Evangelical Christian, Tea Party Republicans

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Bruce Reyes-Chow

It is with this yearning that I offer this list of five and affirmations and five confessions that I believe I hold in common with many of the folks who sit on the other side of the proverbial aisle.

WATCH: How Different Are Israel and Palestine Really?

Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

According to conventional wisdom (and most talk show hosts) there's no reconciling the bitter differences between Israelis and Palestinians. But in t...

After Tucson, the State of the Union

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jim Wallis

The speech Barack Obama gave in Tucson was a memorial to the victims of a horrible tragedy, but the spirit of his speech could also shape Tuesday's State of the Union address by calling us to be worthy of each victim's sacrifice.