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The church has only two alternatives in its confrontation with the world: either it adapts itself to the world and betrays the gospel, or it responds to the gospel and enters into conflict with the world. – Rene Padilla + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

I participated in the National Religious Campaign Against Torture rally and press conference held on Capitol Hill yesterday. Here are some excerpts from two very short talks I gave. The first asserts that it is “an unconditional aspect of Christian faith that torture is always immoral.” The biblical injunction to love our enemies, the fact…

What intruders took from our church office in Bogotá: two computers. What they apparently wanted—given what they left behind—was highly sensitive information on victims of violent human rights abuses, those who document the cases, and local churches courageously working for peace. In the early morning hours of June 14, intruders entered through the roof, disabled…

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He strikes them for their wickedness while others look on, because they turned aside from following him, and had no regard for any of his ways, so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he…

The closer this kingdom is and the more its coming is God’s doing, the more must human beings conform to it by a radical change in their way of life. – Jon Sobrino Quoted in Cry Freedom, by Charles Ringma + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

A month before the war in Iraq began, I took a delegation of religious leaders to meet with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street, to urge that he find a better alternative. We met with Mr. Blair for nearly an hour, and along with Iraq, the critical need for a resolution to…

When I was a girl in the 1960s, one of my favorite parts of summer was Vacation Bible School at St. John’s United Methodist Church of Hamilton in Baltimore. That, of course, makes me sound like a church geek—as if I was eager to go to church five days running instead of only on Sunday.…

In the March/April issue of the University of Chicago magazine, an article announced that the University decided not to divest from companies connected to the genocide in Darfur. I wrote a response and it was published in the May/June issue: Advocacy organizations have done a commendable job of educating the public about this ongoing genocide.…

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