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And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them. – 1 Thessalonians 5:14 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

What lies dead and deformed in the letter on the dead parchment comes to life when what is read is put into practice. –Peter of Celle Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

In the wake of today’s news that Rupert Murdoch appears to have won his battle to buy The Wall Street Journal, a former Journal columnist expresses his concern that the paper will lose journalistic integrity: Standards are the lifeblood of WSJ and its related properties. … I remember being told in a meeting that not…

Earlier this month marked four years since President Bush issued the following brazen pronouncement about our presence in Iraq: “There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring ’em on. We’ve got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.” U.S. troop…

A Baptist church rooted deep in the heart of Red-State, Bible-Belt America might not be the place you’d expect to see people of faith rallying behind a Christian social justice agenda. Last week I spoke at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, just miles from President Bush’s home congregation, Highland Park Methodist Church. More than…

So you Americans who really want to help the poor have to change your own government first. You Americans who want to see an end to hunger and poverty have to take a stand. You have to fight just like we’re fighting—even harder. You have to be ready to be jailed, to be abused, to…

I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me. – Matthew 25:36 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

(Click here to read the first part of this series.) In my search for an ethically made bra, I came face to face with the two distinct worlds of justice issues. There are those who are passionate about caring for the environment and then there are those who seek justice for people, and it appeared…

When Jesus commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves, it was not just for our neighbors’ sakes that he commanded it, but for our own sakes as well. Not to help find some way to feed the children who are starving to death is to have some precious part of who we are starve…

Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. – Hebrews 12:14 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail
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