Forty Days of Lent: An Almost Amish Journey Toward a Slower, Simpler, More Sustainable Life
BY: NANCY SLEETH -- Use this season of Lent as a time to grow closer to God and simplify your life. Try a new suggestion from this list...
Interrupting Inequality — from Wall Street to Your Street
BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- Ten years ago, we threw a party on Wall Street. It was one year after 9/11 and nine years before...
What Can We Say? Theology for Murder and for Living
BY: KENT ANNAN --"Fred, " I ask in Creole last Friday in Port-au-Prince, "do you mind giving us...
Covetous Leaders: How the Religious Right gets it Exactly Wrong
The authors of the Bible did not write with a constitutional democracy in mind. Nevertheless scripture offers guidance that can be useful to us in our...
Slandering the Poor: An Exercise in Self-Righteousness
In the minds of some people any reference to the hard working poor is an oxymoron. Being poor and being hard working are mutually exclusive to them. P...
Red Letter Christians on Campus: Do We Have a Responsibility to Shut our Siblings Up?
An Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida, Dr. Charles Negy, has struck a nerve by sending an email to his unanaesth...
Dreams of Our Own: Revalidating Traditional Mayan Lifestyles
cialis salemala-Farming-300x196.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="176" />Mario Benedetti, the Uruguayan novelist and poet who best expressed the asp...
Planning for Poverty: The SNAP Challenge
I’ve said before that privilege often is invisible until you don’t have it. So in that light, I’m doing a little experiment in a few days with our ...
The Universe Across Town
Can you picture what we’ll be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger’s hand
In a…desperate land!
“The End” by the Doors
I know mo...
What Would MLK Do? Christians and Climate Change
Early in the civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin said to King, "I have a feeling that the Lord had laid his hand upon you. And that is a dangerous,...