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This weekend, the Sojourners/Call to Renewal intern program traveled to Columbus, Georgia to participate in the annual vigil and nonviolent direct action events to close SOA/WHINSEC. Be sure to check back often this weekend for on-the-ground updates, and let us know through your comments what you think! Upon watching the local news Saturday evening while…

This weekend, the Sojourners/Call to Renewal intern program traveled to Columbus, Georgia to participate in the annual vigil and nonviolent direct action events to close SOA/WHINSEC. Be sure to check back often this weekend for on-the-ground updates, and let us know through your comments what you think! First, a brief background. SOA Watch, an independent…

Now that election 2006 is over and the voters have shown that values do indeed matter, we still have some repair work to do here in our churches. While Diana Butler Bass keenly documents the existence of purple churches, where differing political ideologies can co-exist in one sanctuary, we still have too many red and…

the latest news on House leadership, McCain speeches, Iraq, India, minimum wage, civil rights, the Middle East, Darfur, and select op-eds Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: House leadership. Democrats Pick Hoyer Over Murtha for Leader – “House Democrats elected Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) the new…

This week, The Washington Post and Newsweek launched a new feature – “On Faith” – an online discussion of religion and its impact. I have joined with more than 50 other religious leaders, scholars and activists from different faiths and different places on the political spectrum on a panel that includes Desmond Tutu, Karen Armstrong,…

In his entry for the Washington Post/Newsweek “On Faith” discussion (posted here earlier today) Jim Wallis talks about reaching common ground by going to higher ground. Case in point: conservative Christian columnist Cal Thomas, in his column “Christian conservative quandary,” quotes liberally from Jim’s blog entry about a broadened moral agenda for evangelicals and conservative…

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. – Psalms 130:3-4 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

Christians who remember their Lord was unjustly and cruelly given the death penalty have a hard time being enthusiastic about imposing the death penalty on others. – Glen Stassen + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

I got some critical reactions to a very short blog I posted the day after the election, titled “A Defeat for the Religious Right and Secular Left.” It was too short, and perhaps titled badly, because I had to abruptly leave Washington when my Dad suddenly died. I certainly did not mean that “secular” people…

We urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them. See that none repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of…
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