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Prayer by Pablo Neruda
By
Paul Raushenbush
PRAYERS FOR THE EARTH For once on the face of the earth let’s not speak in any languageLet’s stop for one second and not move our arms so much.It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines.We would all be together in a sudden strangeness.Fisherman in the cold sea would not harm whalesAnd the…
Will Actions Follow the Ad?
By
Welton Gaddy
Did you see this ad in the “A” section of today’s New York Times? After reading it, I am pleased to see the newfound commitment of some of my friends on the right to fight against anti-religious bigotry and violence against houses of worship. These are principles that have been at the core of the…
November Unemployment Figures: The Suffering of the Most Vulnerable
By
Paul Raushenbush
NPR’s Market Place host Kai Ryssdal interviewed Nobel Prize-winning economist and Harvard professor Amartya Sen last night. Prof Sen made this important point: Uncertainties affect different people very differently. People who are already vulnerable are affected dramatically more than others. The vulnerable part of the society who often don’t get the attention…(people are more)…
The Episcopal Split: A Battle Over Purity, not Orthodoxy
By
Chloe Breyer
In his Letter to the Galatians, the Apostle Paul describes his frustration with members of “the circumcision faction”-an early group of conserative Jewish-Christians from Jerusalem who refused to eat with the Gentile converts in St. Paul’s community in Antioch. What might Bishop Robert Duncan and other leaders of the new conservative rival denomination to the…
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