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by Ed Knudson:
A recent interview with Jurgen Habermas provides an excellent framework for thinking about the contours of a public theology today, including the concept of egalitarian universalism.
2/4/2010
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by Chris Hedges:
The bible functioned as 'media' in ancient worlds. Are pastors like reporters today, hiding behind claims of objectivity, afraid to take the side of truth, empathy, justice?
2/3/2010
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by Sarah Posner:
The religious right group 'The Family' sponsors a Prayer Breakfast at which Obama will speak, and also has helped Uganda leaders propose a kill-the-gays bill.
2/3/2010
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by Christopher Hayes:
America is in the midst of a system failure. Only a wave of democratic participation can save this country from the 'iron law of oligarchy' of Robert Michels.
2/3/2010
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by Jim Hightower:
Here is a defense of ACORN, which Fox News and Republican right wingers have been attacking so mercilessly. Learn more here about community organizing.
1/25/2010
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by Chris Hedges:
Pastors would do well to read this searing analysis of how the minds and hearts of Americans are manipulated by corporate media, including a critique of Obama as a 'brand'.
1/25/2010
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by Arthur Waskow:
In the midst of the earthquake of modernity there is time to dance the Dance of Life, the Dance of God. Can different religious communities create new and more inclusive forms of planetary community?
1/24/2010
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by Bob Herbert:
Democrats are in power. That they are not spending every waking hour trying to fix the broken economic system and put suffering Americans back to work is beyond pathetic.
1/23/2010
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by Ed Knudson:
Same-sex pastoral relationships are so terrible that Benne is now leading a campaign to divide the ELCA and create a Lutheran wing of the religious right. Read here why he is wrong.
1/22/2010
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by Ed Knudson:
The South has and does dominate the politics of the United States. Ordinary Republicans can help end this now. Or, maybe not.
1/22/2010
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by Chris Hedges:
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X at the end of their lives shared a radical analysis of the social and economic conditions of black folks in this country.
1/18/2010
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by Theodore B. Olson:
Very strong and conservative arguments are presented here for the Supreme Court to finally affirm gay marriage. Same-sex unions promote the values conservatives prize.
1/12/2010
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by Ed Knudson:
With a history of protest, the primary Protestant churches and pastors can be partners for social and political change today all over the country.
1/7/2010
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by Linda Bloom:
Some local churches are finding that concrete steps to care for creation provide an attractive witness to others. Read about what some United Methodists are doing.
1/6/2010
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by Ed Knudson:
Joel Osteen is a heretic, as was Oral Roberts, and even such evangelicals as Rick Warren may qualify as heretics, according to a new report by the highest authority within Protestantism.
1/6/2010
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by Selig S. Harrison:
The US should give up its military bases in Afghanistan. With detailed analysis of ethnic and religious differences in the area, this article shows how to exit the Afghan war.
1/5/2010
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by Ed Knudson:
Adult Forum presentation, Agnus Dei Lutheran Church in Gig Harbor, Washington.
1/4/2010
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by Arthur Waskow:
Both religion and politics are intensifying in the current demonstrations in Iran. Expect vocalcanoes, says a Jewish rabbi.
12/29/2009
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by Paul Krugman:
Lower retirement incomes, no increase in employment, flat wages, bad accounting practices, wholesale failure of financial markets, it's been a very bad economic decade. Anyway, Happy New Year!
12/28/2009
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Here is a story about how the Christmas tree became associated with the holiday celebration in the United States.
12/24/2009
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by Drew Westen:
The president can compromise on policy but not principle. His problems are not from the left, but the center. Independents don't think he stands for anything.
12/23/2009
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by Ed Knudson:
A statement about the primary audiences for this website. Opening discussion of a 'new Protestantism.'
12/20/2009
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by Bill McKibben:
One of the foremost leaders against global warming talks about how it feels to be in a Lutheran cathedral in Copenhagen right now.
12/15/2009
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by Mark Engler:
Ten years ago today protests in Seattle began to change hearts and minds around the world on free trade policies which allow corporations to do whatever they want wherever they are.
11/30/2009
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by Robert Kuttner:
Read the inside story of how Summers and Geithner are resisting finanancial regulatory reform being pushed by Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell.
11/30/2009
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by Walter Altmann:
Lutheran church president in Brazil talks about the continuing importance of liberation theology and its role in South America and influence in global work of the church.
11/19/2009
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by Sarah Posner:
In the health care debate abortion has become a major factor. Here are details about the influence of Catholic Bishops and religious right groups on national health care policy.
11/18/2009
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by Jeff Sharlet:
It is not just Catholic Bishops who are influencing health care debate, but Democrats living at 'C Street' in 'The Family'.
11/13/2009
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by Andrew Curry:
Patient Protestant organizing and protest led to big changes in East Germany twenty years ago. Here is a model for Protestant ministry in the United States right now.
11/12/2009
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by Rachel Morris:
Protestants should be outraged by the way Catholic Bishops have inserted themselves into the health care debate in a way that threatens healing for all.
11/11/2009
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by Stephen Brown:
South Africa changed its government after the Cold War ended. It wasn't a 'victory' for capitalism but a transformation toward a globalized world.
11/11/2009
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