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Whip It: What a Girl Power Movie Should Be

Julie Clawson 10-28-2009

This is what a girl power movie should be. I went to see Whip It because it looked fun and was a totally Austin film (there's something fun about sitting in the Alamo Drafthouse watching a movie where the characters go to the Drafthouse

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Confronting Urban Violence with Jesus' Nonviolence

Efrem Smith 10-27-2009
This morning as I was running on the treadmill, I was also watching CNN. A story came on about a shooting in Washington, D.C. The police chief was speaking, with the mayor of D.C looking on.
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Justice Revival is Coming

Jim Wallis 10-22-2009

Earlier this month, I was in Dallas for the official launch of Sojourners' next Justice Revival.

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It's Time for a Justice Revival

Victoria Hicks 10-20-2009

"It's time."

"Dallas needs this."

Those are the two statements Aaron Graham (Sojourners' Justice Revival Coordinator) and I heard over and over again as we visited pastors and other community leaders all over the city, lifting up the vision of a Dallas Justice Revival.

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In Defense of the Suburbs

Tracey Bianchi 10-20-2009
This past week I was walking home from the school drop-off with a newish friend. Swapping stories about the basics of our lives. Marital status, where we grew up, favorite pastimes.
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Faith Leaders Urge Obama on Gulf Coast Recovery

Desire Evans 10-19-2009

President Obama arrived in New Orleans last week for his first visit to the Gulf Coast since he won the presidency.

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Audio: Remember Your Immigrant Roots

Efrem Smith 10-19-2009
In this short clip from a recent sermon, Pastor Efrem encourages European Americans to remember their own immigrant heritage and history in order to inform their current attitudes toward immigratio
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The 'Other' Chicago: A New Tale of Two Cities

10-13-2009
It has been over a week since the news story broke of the deadly beating of 16 year old Derrion Albert on Chicago's South
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Surprises in Zimbabwe

Nontando Hadebe 10-13-2009
My brief visit to Zimbabwe had a few surprises, such as availability of basic foodstuffs instead of empty shelves in supermarkets.
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Growing the Beloved Community in Spite of Sinful Soil

Efrem Smith 10-12-2009
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke often of something he called the beloved community. This was the title given to describe a reality in which freedom, love, justice, and reconciliation would reign.
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A Faith Declaration for Health-Care Reform

Jim Wallis 10-08-2009
Over the course of the health-care debate, voices of faith have been raised about the moral values at stake beneath the policy discussions.
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Scripture and History Remind Us That We Are All Immigrants

Lynne Hybels 10-08-2009
Nearly five years ago my friends, Hector and Gabby and their five kids, entered the U.S. legally from Mexico in order to join the pastoral staff at my church, Willow Creek.
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Notorious Arizona Sheriff has Federal Immigration Enforcement Role Revoked

Ian Danley 10-08-2009
Living in Maricopa County, Arizona, we are used to seeing our http://blog.sojo.net/2009/03/12/action-alert-victory-department-of-justi..."
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Teaching Hope

Luke McFadden 10-07-2009
My first job after college forever changed the way I prayed. Before I started it, I prayed that God would show me how to best serve him after receiving my diploma.
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Stopping Anti-Immigrant Violence at its Ideological Roots

Cesar Baldelomar 10-07-2009
November 8, 2009 will mark the one-year anniversary of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcello Lucero's brutal murder at the hands of seven high school teens in the infamously anti-immigrant Suffolk County,
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How Our Health-Care System Wrecks People Who Play by the Rules

Steve Taylor 10-05-2009
Recently, I learned that my parents' home is being foreclosed on.
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Five Benefits of Common Security Clubs' Economic Solidarity

Chuck Collins 10-02-2009
Earlier this year, I wrote an article in Sojourners about Common Se
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Health Care, Race, and the Role of Government

Efrem Smith 10-01-2009
I was recently talking with a European-American friend of mine who is also an evangelical. I am African-American and evangelical.
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Wisdom of a 5th-Grade Solomon

Nicole Baker Fulgham 9-30-2009

"Ms. Baker, why are you teaching here?" one student, whom I'll call Solomon, inquired during one of our after school tutoring sessions. "You went to college," he continued unabashedly.

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A Woman with Full Authority

Mimi Haddad 9-30-2009
Many people in Minnesota get really excited about fall. We welcome cooler weather, colorful trees, and a chance to share treasures from our garden.
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