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Chris Fici: 'Today We Have The Power': A Spiritually Radical Documentary

2012-05-24T14:15:30Z

In his debut documentary feature, filmmaker Christopher Timm deftly presents a vital meditation on the bridge between spirituality and social justice, through the prism of the seminal demonstrations at the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle.

Read more: Social Justice, Activism, David Korten, Free Trade, Seattle, Anarchy, Documentaries, Occupy Faith, Buddhism, Seattle Wto Protests, Battle of Seattle, Religion News

Jason Wojciechowski: Bono, Occupy And The Challenge Of Following The Jesus Of The Oppressed

2012-05-24T12:24:22Z

We should commend his service and giving for social good just as we might the activist, but none of this should shadow the reality that poverty and injustice exist because of an unjust system that favors victors with spoils and curses the less fortunate with misery.

Read more: Tony Campolo, Poverty, ONE Campaign, Occupy Wall Street, Jesus, Bono, Charity, Occupy Faith, Philanthropy, Christianity, Religion News

Chris Fici: Occupy Wall Street: Don't Dehumanize The 'Evil Banker'

2012-05-03T14:03:55Z

I felt that, as natural as it is in one sense to feel anger at some of the entities on Wall Street, as a spiritual person my engagement must go deeper. It must include yet transcend the rage.

Read more: Interfaith, Hinduism, Occupy Faith, Bankers, Wall Street, Humanizing Bankers, Evil Bankers, Occupy Wall Street, Religion News

Ryan J. Bell: Clergy To Wells Fargo: Time For Deep Soul Searching

2012-04-26T15:46:46Z

It is high time that Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf address our communities and put his "hand in the wounds" of our families. It's time for him to see and feel the mental and financial toll experienced by the millions of homeowners.

Read more: Easter, John Stumpf, Pico, Big Banks, Wells Fargo, Occupy Faith, Religion News

Jonathan Talat Phillips: The Rise Of The New Spiritual Counterculture

2012-04-09T15:17:51Z

Enthusiastic crowds have greeted me on my book tour. This shouldn't be happening as first-time author in a wilting publishing industry. But I've had a secret grassroots weapon, one that a lot of mainstream America doesn't know about.

Read more: Counterculture, Burning Man Festival, Youth Activism, Activism, Spirituality, Christianity, Occupy Faith, Religion News

Gavriel Brown: Occupy Faith: Prophets Over Profits

2012-04-05T15:04:24Z

Soon, we will recount the story of the Exodus, but today we recounted the greed that spiraled our nation into debt, our coasts into environmental disasters and our working poor into unaffordable health care.

Read more: Christianity, Palm Sunday, Passover, Occupy Faith, #Occupywallstreet, Lent, Judaism, Social Justice, Occupy Wall Street, Jewish Social Justice, Interfaith, Religion News

Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster: How Many Slaves Produced Your Seder?

2012-04-04T07:28:24Z

As the seder begins, we say metaphorically, "This year, we are slaves. Next year, may we be free people." Let us hope that by next Passover, our feasts of liberation will be made without slave labor and that more people will be free.

Read more: Passover, Jewish, Human Trafficking, Slavery, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, Kosher, Passover Seder, Occupy Faith, Green Faith, Food Politics, Judaism, Religion News

Rabbi Peter H. Schweitzer: 10 New Plagues For Passover 2012

2012-04-03T17:22:24Z

In recent years, many new modern Haggadahs have been created, and they are likely to incorporate a list of "Contemporary Afflictions." As we find ourselves in the midst of the latest presidential election cycle, an affliction unto itself, here are 10 new ones.

Read more: Religion and Politics, Occupy Faith, Passover, Judaism, Elections 2012, Ten Plagues, Religion News

Carol Smaldino: Occupying Passover

2012-04-03T16:08:32Z

The idea of Passover is that the issues of slavery and freedom are for all of us. If that is so, we need to confront slavery not only in the most obviously brutalized parts of the world, but in ourselves as well.

Read more: Haggadah, Passover, Occupy, Freedom, Peace, Judaism, Occupy Faith, Passover 2012, Book of Exodus, Religion News

Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI: On St. Patrick's Day, Protect The Irish

2012-03-16T16:10:49Z

The Irish people are being forced to pay off loans incurred by Anglo-Irish Bank's reckless lending and the government's promissory note. We urge the Irish government to immediately stop payments.

Read more: Jubilee USA Network, Occupy Faith, Ireland, Anglo Irish Bank Collapse, Ireland Economy, Ireland Financial Crisis, St. Patrick's Day, Ireland Debt Crisis, Business News

Eileen Flanagan: Earth-Conscious Quakers Against Mountaintop Removal

2012-02-28T15:03:13Z

In that tradition of non-cooperation with injustice, the Earth Quaker Action Team is launching a new program to encourage people of conscience to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining.

Read more: PNC Bank, Eco-Justice, National Council of Churches, Mountaintop Removal, Quakers, Occupy Faith, Green Faith, Earth Quaker Action Team, Religion and Science, Christianity, Climate Change, Religion News

Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Occupy Holy Week, Occupy Passover: Dancing In The Worldwide Earthquake

2012-02-21T12:29:58Z

The week evokes memories and teachings about resistance to tyranny, racism, economic inequality, ecological disaster and militarism. Remembering this past, we should renew our work to resist these evils in the present.

Read more: Shalom Center, Martin Luther King, Palm Sunday, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Dc, #Occupywallstreet, Passover, Easter, Occupy Faith, Christianity, Lent, Judaism, Religion News

Shane Claiborne: Occupy Nonviolence

2012-02-17T12:21:46Z

t's easy to forget that we are up against something bigger than flesh and blood people. And it's particularly easy to forget that people are not the enemy when people are shooting pepper spray in your face.

Read more: Occupy Faith, Christianity, Occupy Oakland, Nonviolence, Jesus Christ, Teachings of Jesus, Occupy Wall Street, Christian Social Justice, Religion News

Lauren Pond: Religious Activism: A Concrete Example Of 'Occupy' Ideals

2012-02-16T12:34:24Z

Much of the criticism directed at the Occupy Movement has focused on protesters' lack of clear objectives. However, as I've witnessed ... these goals are as bright as day: social and economic justice.

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Shane Claiborne: Exorcise Wall Street

2012-02-13T12:51:15Z

Perhaps what we need today is not an occupation of Wall Street -- but an exorcism. And the good news is no one is beyond redemption, not even the 1 percent, the CEOs, the bankers, the terrorists.

Read more: Scripture Commentary, Christianity, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Faith, Exorcism, New Testament, Jesus Christ, Jesus Demons, Religion News

Occupy Wall Street Comes To The National Prayer Breakfast

2012-02-01T11:51:00Z

Every February, the National Prayer Breakfast brings thousands of dignitaries, diplomats, politicians and clergy to Washington, D.C., for one of the m...

Read more: The Fellowship Foundation, People's Prayer Breakfast, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, National Prayer Breakfast, Occupy Faith, Occupy Dc, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Movement, The Fellowship, Religion News

Jeremy John: The People's Prayer Breakfast

2012-01-31T13:10:12Z

God is waiting, just beyond the veil of our faithless actions, just outside the moment of history, and all it takes is for us to heed God's call to hear the prayers of the poor.

Read more: National Prayer Breakfast, The Family, Christianity, The Peoples Prayer Breakfast, Occupy Dc, Occupy Wall Street, Religion and Politics, Occupy Faith, Prayer and Meditation, Judaism, Religion News

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Why Occupy Oakland Persists In Searching For A Home

2012-01-30T18:08:13Z

Occupations create a common public space for assembly, free speech and intense, transformative conversations. Occupations are also prophetic speech acts; they stand in a long and distinguished biblical tradition.

Read more: Occupy Oakland Protest, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Movement, Oakland Police Violence, Occupy Faith, Religion News

Daniel Tutt: An Occupy Prayer Breakfast: There Is Enough For Everyone!

2012-01-24T12:55:30Z

This year, as the 1% comes together to network and pray, an alternative, "People's Prayer Breakfast" will commence across town. The gathering will issue a challenge to all the participants at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Read more: National Prayer Breakfast, Occupy Faith, Cornel West, Prayer, Poverty in America, Occupy Wall Street, Religion and Politics, Prayer and Meditation, People's Prayer Breakfast, Occupy Prayer Breakfast, Religion News

Brady Boyd: Which Master Are We Serving?

2012-01-17T13:20:51Z

Let's make sure we are serving the right master, not a world system that gives us easy money and then makes us servants who then have to ask permission to do the things we have already been told to do by our true Master.

Read more: Debt, Occupy Church, Occupy Faith, Debt Ceiling, Proverbs 22:7, Occupy Christianity, Megachurches, Occupy Debt, Christianity, Religion News

Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Occupy Religion 2012

2012-01-17T13:05:13Z

The New Year is supposed to generate a bit of optimism, but in early 2012 we are not feeling very optimistic when it comes to organized religion. This may be a do-or-die moment for religion.

Read more: Occupy Wall Street, Children's Rights, Occupy Faith, Protecting Children, Failures of Religion, Occupy Religion, Interfaith Dialogue, Religion News

Rabbi Josh Feigelson: What Would You Sacrifice To Repair The World?

2012-01-17T12:49:31Z

"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.

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 Joshua Levine Grater: Loving The Occupiers And The Bankers In Our Midst

2012-01-13T15:45:22Z

Let us be ready to accept the great mitzvah of loving one another. The light of God demands nothing less of us.

Read more: Occupy Faith, Martin Luther King Jr., Love Your Neighbor, Religion News

Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99%

2012-01-12T12:11:40Z

Imagine dozens, or hundreds, of people gathering in every city, town, neighborhood, synagogue, church and college campus to go through a set of rituals and readings together that recall the liberatory message of our traditions.

Read more: Occupy Faith, Easter, Easter Seder, Passover Seder, Religious Tolerance, Christianity, Passover, Occupy Passover, Judaism, Occupy Easter, Religion News

Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery: 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 11-20: Prayerful Listening, Prophetic Proclaiming

2012-01-11T12:08:07Z

Samuel does not know God's voice, but he soon realizes that God is the foundation of his future prophetic work. God speaks but do we listen? Hearing was critical for the prophetic witness of Dr. King.

Read more: Scripture Commentary, Christianity, Jr. Memorial, Martin Luther King, Occupy Faith, Book of Samuel, Prophetic Listening, Mlk, On Scripture, Video, Religion News