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Jim Wallis | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
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.
Joann Davis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
But in our spectator society, where it's easier to watch reality tv than live our own authentic and vibrant life, small, personal acts are sometimes overlooked and minimized.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Healing comes from the soul, the interior self. "Grace," Myss says, "is what heals." She's right. The soul calls for particular actions to set the stage for healing:
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
The vitriol against Obama's peace prize and "those Norwegians" who gave it to him is much deeper than the president's lack of achievements thus far; it is based on a fundamental clash of worldviews.
Laurie Nadel | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
Caroline Myss examines the current melt-down as a collective spiritual crisis that is rooted in a loss of respect for the values upon which our nation was founded.
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
It's a wonderful thing to see Muslims wear their patriotism on their sleeve and demonstrate the deep love for their country. But the event also is turning into a religious war spurred by fringe groups.
Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
A trip to a mosque in Harlem and a church in the Bronx: there are no easy answers in religion, especially when mixed with nationhood.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | 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.
Kim Rosen | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
Poetry is a direct route to the riches of the interior life. It is available to everyone at any hour of the day or night, and it doesn't cost a thing.
Salam Al Marayati | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Mohamed Bary says she can practice any faith she wants -- clearly, he is not a fundamentalist. He believes his daughter was brainwashed and kidnapped.
A Compulsive Overeater | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
My last boyfriend hated when I said the word "spiritual." Suffice to say, the relationship didn't last. I used to be like him, I condemned things prio...
Anne Naylor | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self." Erich F...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 07.07.2009 | Green
Most people who consider themselves at least somewhat spiritual, regardless of their religion or set of beliefs, have realized that caring for the earth is imperative to their spirituality.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business
My taxi driver had tacked to the back of the seat in front of me a professional resume announcing the job search intentions of recent LaSalle MBA graduate James A. Williamson III.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics
Nothing could be more hazardous as a basis for international affairs than relying on God for guidance. The past eight years offer evidence for that conclusion.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Free will is religion's version of having your cake and eating it too. You can have a god who already preordained everything, you can pray for a different outcome anyway, and you have free will to change your destiny.
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
A holiday time seems to capture memories in a more powerful way than any other time of the year, and gives more significance to holidays as time goes on than they would otherwise have.
foxnews.com | Posted 05.14.2009 | Entertainment
Kendra Wilkinson is known across the world as being Hugh Hefner's wonderfully wild former flame, but since moving out of the Playboy mansion and getti...
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
After studying the Obama budget carefully, many of us who have been fighting poverty for years believe this is a moral document, with more commitments to struggling families than any budget in our lifetimes.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green
Wouldn't benevolent God be more likely to be like your mother or grandmother, than like most of our fathers? It's not that I am an avowed atheist, no...
The Huffington Post | Willow Lindley | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
With the increasing prevalence of job layoffs across the country, churches are among the institutions that are making it their priority to help those ...
Therese Borchard | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living
This blog post has been also featured as a Beliefnet gallery. To get there click here. Lent, the 40 days preceding the death, burial, and resurrectio...
US News & World Report | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics
When Barack Obama's presidential campaign contacted Ryan Culp last year to ask him to deliver a prayer at an Obama rally in Culp's native Elkhart, Ind...
BJ Gallagher | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living