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Build, Don't Destroy in Afghanistan: An Open Letter to President Obama

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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Jim Wallis

Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dialogue, Fundamentalism, Culture War, Health Care Plan, Compromise, Immigrants, Poor, Health Care Provider, Abortion, Values, Health Care Coverage, Insurance Plan, Contraception, Poverty Reduction, Justice, Pro-Life Democrats, Member of Congress, Health Care, Status Quo, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Health Insurance Reform, Religion, Pregnancies, Democracy, Abortion Reduction, Culture Wars, Subsidies, Public Option, Tax Dollars, Common Ground, Medicaid, Families, Federal Subsidies, Stereotype, Healthcare, Interpretation, Moral Values, Agendas, Progressive, Culture Warrior, Women, Application, Health Plan, Principle, Segregation, Faith Community, Schip, Abortion Debate, Moral Imperative, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Religious Community, Rhetoric, Politics News
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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A Faith Declaration for Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Dialogue, Public Policy, Social Justice, Debate, Religious Beliefs, Misinformation, Dignity, Abolition, Religious, Biblical, Community, Health-Care Debate, Healing, Biblical Principles, Legislation, America, Civil Rights, Ten Commandments, Moral Values, Insurance Company, Abortion, Profits, Common Good, Principle, Civil Rights Movement, Faith Community, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Gospel, Health Care, Politics News
Jim Wallis

There is no one "right" religious position on how health care should look; but I believe there are some fundamental moral and even biblical principles on which to evaluate any final legislative agreement.

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Law, Allison Johnson, Debate, Undocumented Immigrants, President Obama, Scripture, Media, Health Care Plan, Immigration, Immigrants, Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Legislation, Immigration Status, Faith Groups, Fact Checkers, Moral Obligation, Public Policies, Immigrant, Immigrant Children, Christian Scriptures, Members of Congress, Values, Pregnant Women, Policy Debate, Health Care Coverage, Moral Priorities, Teaching, Stranger, Safety Net, Health Care, Christians, Public Policy, Fear, Lying, Subsidies, Politics, Community, Basic Human Needs, Medicaid, Congress, Faith Communities, Migrants, Moral Issue, Reform Legislation, Moral Consideration, Compassion, Jewish, Moral Values, Moral Issues, Moral Mandate, Inclusion, Faith Community, Political Feasibility, Health Care Reform, Hospitals, Undocumented Immigrant, Legal Immigrants, Christian, Health Care System, Politics News
Jim Wallis

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.

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Does Life Have Meaning or Are We Merely Bobbleheads in Bubbleland?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Man’s Search for Meaning, Materialism, Spiritual Journey, Family-Life, Religious Fundamentalists, Spiritual Path, Life Purpose, Moral Values, HIV/AIDS, Religion, Bobbleheads, Values, Illegal Drugs, Unprotected Sex, Jimmy Carter, Intellectualism, Arrest, Living News
John W. Whitehead

The question of life's meaning is a spiritual one -- one that has been largely lost due to the devaluing of spiritual and religious institutions in the country.

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Reinvention is the New Black

Tevis Gale | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Reinvention, Economic Recovery, Survival Tips, Brian Billings, Beth Schoenfeldt, Kathlin Argiro, Small Business, Belief Systems, Madonna, Quitting, Firing, Radioshack, Life-Goals, Work From Home, Moral Values, Reinvent, General Motors, Starbucks, More Magazine, Debt-to-Equity, Goals, Living News
Tevis Gale

If either your bank account or your emotional reserves are bleeding red, reinvention just might get you back to a positive balance.

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Governor Sanford and the Failure of Moral Politics

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Religion, Mark Sanford, Gay Rights, Equal Rights, Religion and Politics, Argentina, Morality, Mark Sanford Argentina, Sanford Affair, Moral Hazard, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

It's satisfying to lambast a staunch social conservative for an extramarital affair on another continent. But the real failure in this sad story is a political platform based on a personal moral code.

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Does Marrying For Money Make Sense?

Times Online | Kate Spicer, Deirdre Fernand, Kate Mulvey and Ruth Gilligan | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, Moral Values, Soccer Moms, Marriage, Relationships, Work, Values, Money, Romance, Stay at Home Mothers, Happiness, Living News

A woman with two daughters, a stepson, a large mortgage, a big job and no time was rifling in a tidying -- not a nosy -- way through some of her new h...

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New GOP Meme: "Ends Justify The Means" When It Comes to Torture

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Dick Cheney Waterboarding, Terrorist Attack, Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

In America, the ends never justify the means when it comes to violating the law and constitutional rights. Those are our values. Or so I thought.

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Obama's Rick Warren Pick Makes Perfectly Good Sense

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Religion, Saddleback Church, Jerry Falwell, Barack Obama, Political Issues, Inauguration, Faith, Presidency, Liberal Democrats, Rick Warren, Evangelicals, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The 60 to 80 million Christian evangelicals are still too big, too important, and too politically strategic to ignore. Obama knows that and that's a big reason why Warren will pray at his inauguration.

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Night of the Long Pointing Fingers

Brian Ross | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, George Bush, Spin, Gop, Saxby Chambliss, George W. Bush, Republican, Bush Interviews, Religious Right, Reaganomics, Dick Cheney, Iraq WMD, Mike Huckabee, Republican Rewrite, Values, Republican Values, Karl Rove, Wmd, Political Pundits, Bush Exit, Gipper, Democrats, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Moral Values, The Blame Game, Bush Administration, Saddam Hussein, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Palin, Charles Gibson, Wolf Blitzer, Politics News
Brian Ross

Republican politicians all seem to be trying their hand at historic re-creationism to transform both the history and future of the Republican party into their own image.

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Ten Democrats Who Should Go Away

Ben Cohen | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton, Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, John Dingell, Mark Penn, Chris Matthews, Political Pundits, War on Terror, Democratic Platform, Social Conservativism, Hawks, War in Iraq, Obama Campaign, Bill Clinton Campaigning, Moral Values, Speaker of the House, Military Spending, Media Pundits, Senate Majority Leader, 10 Democrats, Impeachment Process, Politics News
Ben Cohen

The Democrats have in some ways, been worse than the Republicans. As a party, they've stood idly by as the Bush Administration has literally ransacked the country.

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A Question For Those Who Care

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Human Rights, America, Terrorism, Radical Islam, Muslim Extremism, Taliban, Israel, Somalia Stoning, Somalia, Somalia Rape Victim, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

Just as our silence discourages moderate Muslims, our furor encourages them to speak up. We may well find some allies among those of the thousand or so spectators to the stoning in Somalia who have already protested.

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Clergy Stand Up for Marriage -- Same-Sex and Otherwise

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Religion and Politics, California Same-Sex Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Florida, Arizona, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Moral Values, Social Conservatives, Prop 8, Family Values, Living News
Rev. Debra Haffner

The conventional wisdom is that religious people oppose marriage rights for same-sex couples. The conventional wisdom is wrong.

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Up Against a Wall (Street): The Financial Crisis and Jewish Values

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Moral Values, Marriage, Stereotypes, Divorce, Jewish Stereotypes, Judasim, Jewish, The Holocaust, Financial Crisis, Discrimination, Family Values, Elie Weisel, Wall Street Collapse, Living News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

The crisis in the Western world is not financial, but a crisis of values. Isn't that what all our financial experts have been saying -- the collapse was caused by greed and material insatiability?

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McCain Apologizes For His Campaign But Not For the GOP

Josh Brusin | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, John McCain, Mccain, Wedge Issues 2008 Election, Wedge Issues, Palin, Moral Values, Social Conservatives, Conservative Right, GOP Wedge Issues, Xenophobia, 2008 Presidential Race, Social Issue, Mccain Damage Control, Politics News
Josh Brusin

The Democrats need to take a big tent approach to the GOP's wedge issues. Divide and conquer only works when you have enough wherewithal to fight every divided battle

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I Was Born in a Small Town.

Joan Garry | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, John McCain, Mccain, Sarah Palin, Small Towns, Politics News
Joan Garry

I was born in Amityville, New York. Small town. About the size, let's say, of Wasilla, Alaska. My mom was born there too. She's 81 and still lives...

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Does Britain Suffer From a "Stabbing Culture"? Let's Cut Through The Nonsense.

Alan Miller | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Moral Values, Leadership, Knives, Juvenile Crime, Crime, Watch Mccain Paris Hilton Ad, Politics News
Alan Miller

Britain is currently consumed with an extremely unhealthy obsession with knife crime. While many of the teens readily confess to 'not really knowing what is going on', so too do the police.

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