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There is no dearth of Christian service today. But because much of it is service without prophetic compassion, it is powerless to bring about a radical change in individuals and society. -Vishal Mangalwadi Quoted in “Cry Freedom”, by Charles Ringma. + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

“When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be…

Following last week’s candidates forum, we asked the religious leaders on our panel if there were any other questions they wish they could have asked any of the candidates. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, a senior pastor at the Bronx Christian Fellowship, had this question for Barack Obama: Oprah Winfrey and Bill Cosby have been criticized…

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I spent this morning with the Sisters of Charity at their shelter for disabled children in downtown Gaza City. When I first started going to the shelter, a boy called Na’el, with a consistent look of fear in his eyes, would hold on to me – not wanting to let go. Sister Delphina told me…

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If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.– Proverbs 21:13+ Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

We should realize that we are heard not by multiplying words, but because of purity of heart and tears of compunction. – Rule of Benedict + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Twenty three of the coolest people I’ve ever met geared up by putting on costumes, make-up, and even wigs, for the grueling brawl that ensued as we all tried to wax the stage with one another in an art form whose name betrays its beauty: air guitar. As the evening’s emcee and national popularizer of…

OK. I’ve got to admit it – being a part of the panel to ask candidates for the presidency of the United States about their faith and moral values was just plain surreal. Kudos to Jim Wallis (and Jack Pannell and the rest of the Sojourners organization) for creating this historic event! As I reflected…
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