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In the Wake of Tiger's Sins, What Matters Most -- Reputation or Reconciliation?

Larry Ross | Posted 01.06.2010 | Sports

Read More: Religion, Tiger Woods Affair, Tiger Woods, Sin, Faith, Infidelity, Tiger Woods Scandal, Reputation, Redemption, Marriage, Larry Ross, Christmas, Sports News
Larry Ross

Anyone who has submitted to the process of recovery on which Tiger seems to have now embarked discovers that they are far better in their brokenness than in their grandiosity.

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Surviving A Loved One's Suicide

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Grief, Suicide, Mourning, Sin, Death, Family, Heaven, Hell, Death & Dying, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

Once someone you love commits suicide, you become a suicide survivor. That is what you are called. If someone you love dies of natural causes, you are not called a survivor. Suicide is different.

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The Tone of Our Atonement: A Meditation for Yom Kippur

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Jewish Holidays, Yom Kippur, U.N. General Assembly, Humanistic-Leadership, Sin, Atonement, Common Ground, Jewish, Living News
Carol Smaldino

I want to dare to pose the notion of making Yom Kippur a time for softer and longer reflections, about how to make things better, truer, safer for our insides and freer from inner terrors.

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Three Moral Issues of Health Care

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vision, Capitol Hill, White House, Debate, Family, Children, Scripture, Low Income Families, Legislation, Common Good, Values, Policy Debate, Single Payer, Sin, Health Care, Class, Faith, Private Insurance, Church, Fear, Leaders, Money, Politics, Biblical, Democrat, Congress, Health, Election, Families, Healthcare, Democrats, Moral Issues, Faith Community, Health Insurance, Republicans, Ethics, Partisan Politics, Unions, Medical Care, Partisan, Politics News
Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.

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Governor Sanford Needs an Intervention Before It's Too Late

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: King David, Religion, Governor Sanford, Mark Sanford, Marital Affairs, News, Politics, Governor Mark Sanford, Media, Lovey Govey, Infidelity, Sanford, Soap Opera, Jackie Collins, Young and the Restless, Adultery, Life Style, Marriage Infidelity, Affairs, Sin, Suicide, Life, Governor of South Carolina, Republican Party, Living, Sex Lies, Bathsheba, Politics News
Yvonne R. Davis

Sanford needs more than just a few Republicans calling him up, and asking him to step down. He needs someone who can come and help save him from himself.

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What Comes Next After Sin?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Sin, Iran, Women, Islam, Muslims, Women in Islam, Living News
Deepak Chopra

Improvement is a simple, natural impulse -- everyone wants to see a better life for his family and society. But is it an improvement to deny women education and health care?

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Avoiding the Wrong Goals

Tom Morris | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Strategy, Corporate Responsibility, Goals, Recession, Economic Plans, Decisions, Targets, Management Decisions, Bush Administration, Values, Personal Growth, Mea Culpa, Self-Deception, Corporate Greed, Sin, Banks, Scandals, Living News
Tom Morris

Self-deception is such a powerful force in our lives that we cannot guarantee, even if we do spot it in action, that we'll be able to resist its subtle lure.

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Imaginative new definitions for sin in a changing world

Merrill Markoe | Posted 03.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Sin, Muslim Religion Alcohol, Ethynol, Green News
Merrill Markoe

The following in on the front page of Motor Authority, a site I check every day. Okay, okay. I've never read it before. It was forwarded to me by th...

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Barack Obama and the Promise of Progress

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressives, Christian Progressives, Martin Luther King Jr., Progressive Movement, Race, Center for American Progress, Barack Obama, Religon and Progress, Religion, Sojourner Truth, Progress, Conservatives, W.E.B. Dubois, Social Conservative, Christian Conservatives, Sin, Racism, Religion and Politics, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

The progressive movement throughout the last century has enlisted political leaders, economists, educators, and clergy who strive to create a more equitable world, a task we believe is possible.

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God Vs. Madoff

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Sin, Bernard Madoff, Redemption, The New York Times, Religion, Madoff Scandal, Bernie Madoff, Business News
Leeat Granek, PhD

Madoff's behavior is reprehensible, disgusting, and selfish to an unprecedented degree. In fact, the scandal is so clear-cut, it's almost boring. There is no grey area.

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Automakers: Apology Accepted

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Market, Leadership, Greed, Leaders, Trust, Gm, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Backed Securities, Ford, Green, Compensation, Congress, Employee, Apology, Business, Corporations, Transparency, Automakers, Chrysler, Bailout, Stock, Sin, Big Three, Economy Special Focus, Detroit, Auto Bailout, Financial Crisis, Business News
Jim Wallis

If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that the very mistakes the leadership of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made are all too recognizable in ourselves -- even if there are drastic differences of scale.

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Notes from Election Day by a Gay White Liberal

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Election Day, Martin Luther King, Empathy, Sin, Racism, Liberal, California, Politics News
Nathaniel Frank

What does a gay, white liberal feel upon the election of the world's first African-American president at the moment America's biggest, bluest state votes to rip away my right to marry?

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Greed in the Economy: It's the Morality, Sinner

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Bear Stearns, Greed, Materialism, Investment Banks, Mortgage Backed Securities, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Business, Adjustable Rate Mortgages, Merrill Lynch, Aig, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Subprime Lenders, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Bible, Consumer Ethics, Sin, Housing, Ethics, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, James Carville, Capitalism, Economy, Religion, Lea, Business News
Jim Wallis

Our financial collapse is the fiscal consequence of the economic philosophy that markets are always good and government is always bad. But it is also the moral consequence of greed.

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