Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

God's Politics

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God. – Ezekiel 45:9 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

My mother used to say that through her life, through her living testimony, she tried to tell women that they too had to participate, so that when the repression comes and with it a lot of suffering, it’s not only the men who suffer. Women must join the struggle in their own way. My mothers’s…

For those who’ll accuse me of Bush-bashing, the headline was Christianity Today‘s. Ted Olsen has an interesting round-up of conservative bloggers, mostly criticizing recent statements by Bush about his theology of foreign policy: And people have said, you know, this is Wilsonian, it’s hopelessly idealistic. One, it is idealistic, to this extent: It’s idealistic to…

A few weeks ago, I wrote that a group of Catholic members of Congress sent a letter to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, asking to meet with the bishops to discuss mobilizing the church to end the war in Iraq. The bishops have responded. Thomas G. Wenski, the bishop of Orlando and chairman of…

the latest reports on the CNN/YouTube debate, minimum wage, VA failing vets, Blair in the Mideast, Iraq, Iran, Darfur, food costs and the poor, religious schools, rainfall, and select commentaries

Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong. – 2 Corinthians 12:10 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

We should pray without ceasing because we cannot complete anything without God’s help. –John Trithemius Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

An interview with Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, general director, The International Center of Bethlehem; senior pastor, Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church; and president, Diyar Consortium. Can you give us a snapshot of what daily life is like for people living in Bethlehem? The “little town of Bethlehem” is becoming more and more like a prison surrounded…

The latest news on children’s health insurance, Pakistan, Nuclear reactor-Japan, Aid for workers, Prosecuted GIs, diplomacy on hold, Iran, Nuclear weapons-Korea, Canada-Afghanistan, Darfur, Colombia, immigration, Evangelical-Muslim dialogue, house churches, special feature on reporting faith. and select commentaries and editorials. + Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail »

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice. – Ezekiel 34:16 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners