Religion, AIDS, & Africa, After Obama
What is the role of religion in addressing the challenges facing contemporary African cultures? A new model suggests that religious organizations may be uniquely suited to effect change.
Economy Yields Too Few Prophets
Few mainstream journalists are truly capturing the reality of the economy in terms of the nation’s worst off. As of last month, the actual number of workers in crisis is not the 14 million but more like 29 million, or 18 percent of the total workforce. Where are the religious coalitions willing to challenge the president’s policies?
In a recent speech on the the economy, Obama could have stressed biblical justice; instead he opted for a “post-partisan” emphasis on firm foundations and solidarity in common cause.
Sin is not the only story. Our communities and our churches have the capacity to be compassionate, radically inclusive, and justice-driven.
Lutheran religious leader challenges the President to make good on his campaign pledges to fight for the eradication of extreme poverty.
Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty
The Poverty Forum’s supposedly cross-the-spectrum plan to reduce poverty runs the gamut—from A to B. While it is perpetually depressing to see the Democrats drinking the Kool-Aid of “No Enemies Among The Privileged,” it actually turns the stomach a bit to see faith leaders who claim to care about the poor slurping up the same reality-free brew.
But what about feeding the hungry or housing the homeless? Not on the agenda.
The Day After: A Call to Action for Worker Justice
People are lined up at soup kitchens in congregations across the country. Religious communities, the first line of support for struggling families, need to be be vocal in the call to improve conditions for the American worker.
With Jesus as a guide the USA does not appear to be uniquely blessed. Fortunately, that's never been much of an issue.
Any faith-based plan to combat poverty, including Obama's, is threatening to the rights of poor LGBTQ Americans, who have always been discriminated against by religious organizations...
Obama’s proposal is too timid: How about asking religious groups to really step up?
Does poverty breed terrorism? Best-selling author Jared Diamond says it does, in a piece this week on the New York Times op-ed page. That’s not really Diamond’s point.