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The latest news on civil rights, the Carter Center, California’s governor, ethics, stem cell research, Iran-the raid on Iranian consulate, Iraq- public opposition, and the military. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Iraq-Congress. In both parties, doubts cloud Bush’s Iraq plan – “A day after President Bush…

Sojourners magazine readers may remember an article in our special issue on food last May in which I wrote about my adventures in dumpster diving. Since then, I’ve received a somewhat steady stream of media inquiries into the phenomenon, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal (I was interviewed, but an editor killed the…

Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. – Psalms 82:3-4 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

It is hard to believe in [Christ’s love] because it is a devouring love. It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of a living God. If we do once catch a glimpse of it we are afraid of it. Once we recognize that we are [children] of God, that the seed of…

President Bush continues to view what is now largely a complex civil war in Iraq as a critical test of the United States’ “War on Terrorism,” and a decisive global ideological conflict between democratic tolerance and fundamentalist extremism. Further, the president persists in believing that democratic governance in Iraq can be imposed through U.S. military…

The latest news on the minimum wage increase, Iraq, Sudan-Darfur, Iran, Somalia, children’s health insurance, homelessness and church giving. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Minimum wage. House OKs hike in minimum wage – “The House’s Democratic majority, exercising its new political clout, approved the first increase…

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. About Abe Lincoln’s huge capacity for tolerance and his political savvy, including information about his ardent opponents in his cabinet who also sought the presidency. The Birth of Christianity by John Dominic Crossan. Discovering what happened in the years immediately after the execution of Jesus. A Short History…

When the American people make it clear in the election, and in every public opinion poll, that they want an end to the war in Iraq, he ignores them. When the central recommendation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group is “new and enhanced diplomatic and political efforts…that will enable the United States to begin to…

O Lord my Lord, act on my behalf for your name’s sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is pierced within me. – Psalms 109:21-22 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Ultimately, we are reborn to love because in this expanding, gracious space within us, we arrive at the astonishing presence of God at the core of our life. We blunder into the heart of God and find our own. – Sue Monk Kiddfrom Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd + Sign up…
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