Sojourners magazine was honored with 17 awards last week in Chicago at the annual convention of the Associated Church Press, North America’s oldest interdenominational religious press association. The “best of the Christian press” awards presented to Sojourners included Best in Class (Ecumenical General Interest Magazine) and the top honor in the following categories: Magazine Design,…

Time‘s Joe Klein makes some interesting observations about Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (“a political inconvenience, a destroyer of stereotypes”), asking whether or not “compassionate conservatism” is dead, and if poverty has a place on the Republican agenda: In 2000, George W. Bush successfully used “compassionate conservatism” to soften his image with…

When elements of the recent Pew study on Hispanic religiosity were first published last summer, a number of my colleagues in movements for social justice were surprised. Many were also worried. According to the study (conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life), 15% of the Hispanic community…

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