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There are some who still find the cross a stumbling block, and others consider it foolishness, but I am more convinced than ever before that it is the power of God unto individual and social salvation. … The suffering and agonizing moments through which I have passed over the past few years have also drawn…

In 2005, I wrote these words in an article called “Thank God for Journalists and News Professionals!” After the Holocaust, the world said, NEVER AGAIN! But then came Cambodia. Then came Rwanda. And now – Darfur, Sudan. Murder, rape, torture, destruction of villages, wells, and land – it’s an old, cruel story being repeated again…

David Kuo is the author of a new book called Tempting Faith and was interviewed last night on 60 Minutes. Kuo could be a big problem for the Bush Administration, because he asserts that the famous White House “Faith-based Initiative” fell far short of its bold promises, was a cover-up for very bad domestic policies…

the latest news on faith-based manipulation, North Korea, the Mideast, Iraq policy, violence in Sri Lanka, the United Nations security council elections, and election politics in Pennsylvania Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Faith-based Initiatives. Allegations by former White House official David Kuo include, among other things…

But you rise up against my people as an enemy; you strip the robe from the peaceful, <!– +fCn: Heb from before a garment+e –>from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.<!– 9 –>The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses;from their young children you take away my…

The story goes that a North American missionary went out one day to preach in a barrio of a Brazilian city. Taking John 3:16 as his text, he stood on the corner proclaiming the love of God for all people. A crowd gathered. One man in the crowd interrupted the missionary, ‘You are wrong, Señor,…

the latest news on the Nobel Peace Prize, faith and politics, election politics, poverty, North Korea, Darfur, Iran, conscience and war, Iraq, and tithing Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel for anti-poverty pioneers – “Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank have been…

When I first went out on the book tour for God’s Politics, I often got asked the standard media question, “Why did you write this book?” I answered, “Because the Right gets it wrong and the Left doesn’t get it!” It worked. Now reporters tell me it’s “the book that changed the conversation.” The new…

When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:<!– 18 –>”The Spirit…

Globalization, for all its risks, also offers exceptional and promising opportunities, precisely with a view to enabling humanity to become a single family, built on the values of justice, equity, and solidarity. For this to happen, a complete change of perspective will be needed: it is no longer the well-being of any one political, racial,…
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