Obama's Delay in Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline is a Victory for God's Earth
President’s Obama’s delay in approving the Keystone XL Pipeline is a victory for the movement to stop it, for God’s earth, for the possibility of reversing climate change, and for saving the integrity...
View ArticleMust-Read du Jour: "Nuns Who Won't Stop Nudging"
All of my life, religious sisters have had a special place in my heart and imagination.I love nuns. LOVE them.So a story in today's New York Times caught my eye (and my heart) immediately when I saw...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Voice of a Generation: Dorli Rainey is "Maude" to the Occupy...
Rainey is quite a woman. Reared in Nazi-era Germany, she is well known around her adopted city of Seattle for her years of social justice activism. According to the Post-Intelligencer, Rainey even ran...
View ArticleRevolution 2.0: Fulfilling Egypt's Democratic Promise
The huge throng filled the entire Square and was reminiscent of the historic mass mobilizations in February that brought down the Mubarak dictatorship. The rally was announced as a ‘million man march’...
View ArticlePresident Obama to Young Evangelicals: 'God’s Hand is Moving through His People'
In a video address Tuesday, President Obama told hundreds of young evangelical Christian leaders gathered at the Q Conference in Washington, D.C., that they had a partner in the White House in their...
View ArticleWomen, Storytelling, and Activism Merge at MAKERS
This week I came across a dynamic outlet for new forms of storytelling. MAKERS is a documentary project where dozens of short reflections and dreams are gathered to promote the ways a diverse...
View ArticleMillennials and the 2012 Presidential Election
Eboo Patel on Millennials and the 2012 Presidential Electionread more
View ArticleGGNFT (Ethiopia Edition): Teddy Afro
God Girl's New Favorite Thing for Oct. 12, 2012:Ethiopian Pop StarTeddy AfroADDIS ABABA — Pretty much everywhere we've gone in Ethiopia this week, we've heard Teddy Afro's voice.The 36-year-old...
View ArticleChicago is Ground Zero in U.S. Muslim Renaissance
CHICAGO — Religious affiliation may be on the wane in America, a recent Pew study asserts, but you wouldn’t know it walking into the storefront near the corner of West 63rd Street and South Fairfield...
View ArticleSalvation: All Is Grace
One sort of Christian believes taking Eucharist weekly saves her. Another Christian believes his confession of Jesus Christ as Lord saves him. Still another looks to his Baptism. Another to her...
View ArticleWe The People: The High Cost Of Believing Lies
January 21, 2014 Related Author: Clyde Ussery Press Source: Crossville Chronicle Source Link: http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/opinion/x1767992012/WE-THE-PEOPLE-The-high-cost-of-believing-lies...
View ArticleWe The People: The High Cost Of Believing Lies
January 21, 2014 Related Author: Clyde Ussery Press Source: Crossville Chronicle Source Link: http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/opinion/x1767992012/WE-THE-PEOPLE-The-high-cost-of-believing-lies...
View ArticleRadical Ruptures and Rhetorical Questions
For me, action had become a way to look good and gain respect — but it obscured the more important inner work. It anesthetized the throbbing nerves of my aching interiority. And I needed it because my...
View ArticleA Crash Course: Australia, Refugees, and the Politics of Jesus
Here’s a crash course to understand what’s happening in Australia with refugees and the politics of Jesus.Imagine for a moment that in the lead up to the next U.S. elections, a political party changed...
View ArticleA Pivot on the Peace Island
Jeju Island, South Korea — For the past two weeks, I’ve been in the Republic of Korea (ROK), as a guest of peace activists living in Gangjeong Village on ROK’s Jeju Island. Gangjeong is one of the...
View ArticleYou've Got To Hear This Preacher
May 15, 2014 Related Author: Ben Wikler Press Source: The Good Fight Source Link: http://thegoodfight.fm/episodes/22-meet-the-minister-glenn-beck-hates Rev. Jim Wallis left evangelical Christianity to...
View Article3 Ways to Cultivate Joy While Working for Change
I was among millions across the globe wrapped up in the glee of Pharrel William’s song, “Happy.” I first heard it while watching Despicable Me 2 with my family last year. As the credits rolled I...
View ArticleChallenging Drone Warfare in a U.S. Court
On Oct. 7, Georgia Walker and I appeared before Judge Matt Whitworth in a Jefferson City, Mo., federal court on a charge of criminal trespass to a military facility. The charge was based on our...
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