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We’ve all heard the tired sermon cliches about the real meaning of Christmas being overshadowed by the materialism and commercialism of holiday shopping. Blah Blah Blah. Well, here’s another layer of crass holiday exploitation for you: The very people claiming to be putting the “Christ” back in “Christmas” are cashing in big time on buttons,…

As an example of suffering and patience, beloved, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Indeed we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful. – James 5:10-11 +…

Where would we be today if certain women, men, young people, and also children had not arisen at moments when the human family seemed destined for the worst? They did not say: “Let things take their course!” Beyond the confrontations between persons, peoples, and spiritual families, they prepared a way of trusting. Their lives bear…

The latest news on an interview with President Bush, Iraq, Iran, Darfur, minimum wage, hunger, homelessness and selct commentaries. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Interview with Pres. Bush. Bush Sees ‘Opportunities’ on Social Security, Immigration – “President Bush said yesterday that he intends to work with…

Beliefnet asked God’s Politics to dialogue with a recent post by one of their Virtual Talmud bloggers, Rabbi Eliyahu Stern, which compared Jimmy Carter with Orthodox Jews who attended Iran’s Holocaust deniers summit: While Carter’s new book is not half as despicable as these Jews’ recent trip to Tehran, where they joined hands with Iranian…

Two months ago, we helped convene a group of 24 evangelical Christian leaders to launch an Evangelicals for Darfur campaign. Full-page ads ran in several national and many local newspapers around the country, along with radio ads. Articles about the campaign appeared in 167 publications. We urged President Bush to use his “personal leadership in…

After the tsunami devastated Southeast Asia two years ago, I wrote a commentary for Sojourners Jaunary 2005 issue, speculating on what aid for Muslim nations could accomplish: With polls demonstrating the mutual enmity between the U.S. and the Muslim populations, perhaps administration pragmatists got religion (the good news kind) and decided that Jesus’ Sermon on…

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us – and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses to help? – 1 John 3:16-17 +…

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. – Bayard Rustin Activist for peace and leader of the civil rights movement in America, Rustin is often remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. For more info: www.rustin.org.+ Sign up to receive our quote of the day via…

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge God, and he will make straight your paths. – Proverbs 3:5-6 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail
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