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…[W]hatever we do counts. If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys. – Wendell Berryexcerpt from Wendell Berry’s essay “Two Economies.” + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn one who is righteous and mighty, who says to a king, “You scoundrel!” and to princes, “You wicked men!”; who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of [God’s] hands? – Job 34:17-19 +…

The neo-cons running this administration’s foreign policy are like most ideologues. Rather than allowing the facts to determine a course of action, they have their predetermined opinions and then shape the evidence to match. On Sunday, a group of anonymous senior United States military officials held a press briefing in Baghdad to present their case…

It’s been in the works for quite some time, but yesterday we announced my participation in a delegation of 13 religious leaders who will be leaving this coming Saturday, February 17, for a trip to Iran. Our delegation, which is being led by the Mennonites and Quakers, will be meeting with a variety of religious…

In mid-January, a few of us launched a Web site: stepitup07.org. We didn’t have a big group behind us, and we didn’t have any money – just an idea, that the time had finally come for Americans to move past concern about global warming and on to real action. We’d organized a march across Vermont…

The latest news on Iran, Libby trial, climate change, Iraq-Congress, Romney announces candidacy, North Korea, immigration, church-state, and select op-eds.Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Iraq-Congress. House Begins Debate On War – “The House plunged into a heated, partisan debate on President Bush’s war policy, with Democrats…

Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!” But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay! – Psalms 70:4-5 + Sign up to receive our social…

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits…

Sigmund Freud would have something to say about the ways in which we evangelicals seem to be fixated on homosexuality. That fixation became abundantly clear to me recently when I was doing radio interviews upon the publication of my most recent book, Letters to a Young Evangelical. The book has 21 chapters, yet on every…

Because Jesus’ teachings are so challenging and radical, it is much more comfortable to focus on a quiet, private, personal relationship with him than it is to follow his teachings that call for a public prophetic witness. – Alvin Alexi Currier + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail
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