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From a dear friend who took his first trip out of the country… I recently returned from a missions trip to Guatemala. I went with a group from my church to do a construction project for El Verbo church, a local church in Amatitlan that runs a school for Compassion International students. It was my…

June 2008’s conventional storyline: the religious right is dead, the religious left is growing, the Republicans are cratering, the Democrats will win the White House. It is possible that all four of those things are true. But take a look at the latest polling on Congressional Democrats. It isn’t pretty. Their job approval ratings are…

Snapshots from the forum that might not have been seen on TV: – Spontaneous and sustained applause for Elizabeth Edwards when she walked into the auditorium. She was mobbed by people all around her – mobbed not for autographs but mobbed to show love. It was beautiful. – A single African-American man jumping up and…

Midway through – Jim Wallis has tried to interject discussions of poverty into the forum and, to some degree, has succeeded. But this is less a forum about faith and poverty and more a forum about faith and divisive social issues. It would be far more interesting if Jim and his panel of experts were…
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