Religion

Memorial Day: Giving Our Full Measure of Devotion to Peace

Valerie Elverton Dixon 5-28-2010

This Memorial Day, let us see and believe the just peace vision and give the full measure of our living devotion to bring into being a world where war is no more.

Evangelical History and 'Nonperson' Women

Julie Clawson 5-28-2010

I recently stumbled across the book http://www.amazon.com/young-evangelicals-Revolution-orthodoxy/dp/0060667...

Christian Anti-Logic and Immigration Reform

Valerie Elverton Dixon 5-21-2010

The issue of illegal immigration in the United States requires an anti-logic of radical love. (The anti-logic I propose is not fallacious logic. The distinction is a topic for another essay.) Christianity is a counter-intuitive religion.

Glenn Beck Attacks Churches on Climate Change

Jim Wallis 5-20-2010

I thought Glenn Beck must have moved on to other things, but the other night, he went back to his attack on social justice churches. This time the issue was climate change.

Free Speech vs. Fundamentalist Islam?

Eboo Patel 5-11-2010

A few days back, small groups of college students at Northwestern,http://uiucatheists.bl

Listeners

Rebecca Curtin 5-10-2010

Last month, at the height of the media coverage of the most recent sex abuse crisis, Father Francis Clooney, a professor at Harvard Divinity School and Director of the Center for the Study of Wor

Is Western Christianity Suffering From Spiritual Amnesia?

Diana Butler Bass 5-04-2010

In the 1990s, I taught history and theology at an evangelical college, a place where the students were serious young Christians.

This I Believe

Tefi Ma'ake 5-03-2010

One of the best gifts I received when I finished grad school was a book called http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805086587?ie=UTF8&tag=sojo_blog-20&lin...

Goldman Sachs' Excremental Deals

Valerie Elverton Dixon 4-29-2010

They were described using the first word on George Carlin's list of the seven words you cannot say on television.

Ignoble Indifference: Evangelicals, Race, and GLBT Issues

Andrew Wilkes 4-27-2010

[Read more of this blog conversation in response to the Sojourners magazine article "http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.ar

God is Big Enough to Take Our Doubt and Anger

Steve Holt 4-23-2010

"To believe is human, to doubt divine."

Another Vatican II Moment for the Catholic Church?

John Gehring 4-23-2010

These are dark days for Catholics and our church. The clergy sexual abuse scandals are a source of profound pain and raw anger.

The Global Emergence Won't Be Televised

Onleilove Alston 4-23-2010

[Read more of this blog conversation in response to the Sojourners magazine article "

Turning the Tables of White-European-Male-Privilege: 'Our' Tables, 'Their' Tables, and New Tables

Brian McLaren 4-22-2010

[Read more of this blog conversation in response to the Sojourners article "http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&iss

Why the Tea Party Movement Should be Anti-War

Valerie Elverton Dixon 4-16-2010

What is the Tea Party position on war?

The Advent of a New Global Faith Family

Charles Honey 4-09-2010

The Grand River flows through Grand Rapids, Mich. with power and peace on its way to Lake Michigan 30 miles west.

The Inevitable Results of War: Sins as Well as Crimes

Arthur Waskow 4-08-2010

The end of Passover is said to mark the anniversary of the moment when Pharaoh's imperial horse-chariot army met disaster in the Red Sea.

Baseball, Tiger Woods, March Madness, and the American Soul

Diana Butler Bass 4-08-2010

I'm not much of a sports person, but I have to admit that April 5 was a remarkable day for sports -- especially sports and religion.

Glenn Beck's Faulty Logic

Valerie Elverton Dixon 4-07-2010

I do not usually watch Glenn Beck's program. So many books, so little time. However, on April 6, while working on another project, my intuitive mind told me to watch Glenn Beck. So, I did.

Jesus and the Klan

Cesar Baldelomar 4-06-2010

I recently viewed an episode of Gangland on The History Channel. This particular show, which documents the rise of the younger members of the Imperial Klan of America (or KKK), really roused my anger. I thought, "How could people be so ignorant and foolish?" Can't they just accept that the United States has always been an ethnically, religiously, and ideologically diverse country?