Lutheran Pastors Support Gay Marriage, like President Obama

Article  by Donald Heinz:  Today the president announced his views on gay marriage. A group of Lutheran pastors have their own reasons for doing so along with many Catholics.  5/9/2012

The History of Debt: Slavery, Money, and the Crucial Role of Violence

Article  by David Graeber:  Here an anthropologist associated with the Occupy Movement discusses a very broad viewpoint on 'the economy' with implications for understanding Israel and Jesus.  5/1/2012

Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Practice Savage Capitalism

Article  by Pete Kotz:  Republicans are about to nominate a presidential candidate who made millions destroying jobs and companies, preying upon the weak, demanding taxpayer money, and then bragging this is 'success'.  4/30/2012

Catholic Leaders to Rep. Paul Ryan: Stop Distorting Church Teaching to Justify Immoral Budget

Article  by Casey Schoeneberger:  In a very strong statement 90 Catholic leaders & scholars say the Ryan budget is 'morally indefensible and betrays Catholic principles of solidarity, just taxation and a commitment to the common good'  4/26/2012

Growing Catholic Resistance to Bishops’ Crusades

Article  by Peter Montgomery:  Local priests and laity are now actively beginning to oppose what their bishops are doing. Let's hope such efforts continue in all parts of the U.S.  4/16/2012

Debate Industrial Policy, Not Austerity

Article  by Dave Johnson:  A speech by Gene Sperling on government support for manufacturing is analyzed here. This is what should be discussed in the campaign to deal with deficits and unemployment.  4/16/2012

No More Cheap and Easy Easters!

Article  by David Sylvester:  The killings would stop if Christians did on Monday what they say they believe on Sunday. We can't avoid the devastation of sharing Holy Saturday with Jesus.  4/7/2012

The Predator Corporation: How It Has Come to Dominate the Economy

Article  by William Lazonick:  Corporations no longer serve society, they serve themselves, and are now destroying livlihoods of the people and our democracy. Here are real facts and concrete proposals to reckon with.  4/2/2012

Paul Ryan Budget Fails the Moral Test of His Own Catholic Faith Tradition

Article  by Bryan N. Massingale:  Two Catholic scholars assail the latest Ryan budget for its lack of concern for the most vulnerable and its coddling of the wealthiest few. Republicans are rejecting social justice traditions.  3/27/2012

The Difference Between Private and Public Morality

Article  by Robert B. Reich:  It's not the moral breakdown of ordinary folks that is the problem, it's a breakdown of public morality of financial and corporate leaders. A comment on the death of James Q. Wilson & broken windows.  3/14/2012

Obama Should Go Visit His Own Pastor

Article  by Ed Knudson:  The mainline media have screened out the mainline Protestants, the tradition of Barack Obama. So the public sphere is skewed toward conservative religion.  3/13/2012

Why America Failed: 'They Ate Each Other'

Article  by Nomi Prins:  An interview with Morris Berman who tells a truth about the country most cannot disagree with but is hard to bear. Capitalism has already destroyed democracy.  3/9/2012

Congregation Action Network Organizes in Indianapolis

Article  More than thirty congregations decide to work together to deal with the economic recession. This should happen in cities across the nation.  3/7/2012

Arab-Israeli-Palestinian Peace Is More Urgent Than Ever

Article  by Ron Young:  Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders urge all presidential candidates not to use any rhetoric that could make prospects for peace more problematic.  3/3/2012

GOP Politics is Based Today on Old Time Religion: Women are Cause of Sin

Article  by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite:  Sandy Fluke is called a 'slut' by Rush Limbaugh, the intellectual leader of the GOP, revealing an old religious idea about women.  3/2/2012

Blue States Pay Taxes, Red States Receive Benefits

Article  by Sara Robinson:  Here is a delightful piece of truth which Ayn Rand conservatives (and religious right leaders) will hate to read. Red States are welfare states!!!  2/29/2012

Theology and Human Rights in Moral Consciousness

Article  by Rowan Williams:  Here is a thoughtful reflection on human dignity and mutual recognition by the Archbishop of Canterbury, with implications for sexual minorities and end-of-life issues.  2/29/2012

WCC Denounces 'Doctrine of Discovery' which Permitted Enslavement of Indigenous Peoples

Article  Papal bulls going back to Pope Nicholas V in 1452 and legal claims under the doctrine are rejected, opposed to gospel of Jesus.  2/27/2012

Religion in Political Campaigns -- An Interfaith Statement of Principles

Article  A number of religious groups, including the National Council of Churches, published this statement on religious freedom.  2/27/2012

Dissaray: Catholic Scholars against Catholic Bishops

Article  by Ed Knudson:  Daniel Maguire strongly critiques the bishops. They want public money for their institutions. Maybe the idea of a Catholic hospital is over.  2/25/2012

In Solidarity with the Churches of Syria

Article  Syria, now engulfed in violence, is the land whence St. Paul spread the good news of love, peace and justice to the world.  2/22/2012

State Rape and the Right's Escalating War on Women

Article  by Heather Parton:  Catholic bishops and religious right have gone berzerk in their attacks on birth control and demands for invasive medical procedures.  2/21/2012

Civil Society Awoke and Fell in Love with Itself

Article  by Rebecca Solnit:  State violence attacks the mad, passionate love of the Occupy movement as it heads into the Spring.  2/21/2012

The Catholic Vote: Not What You Might Think

Article  by Stephen S. Schneck:  The idea of a Catholic bloc is patently ridiculous. Most Catholics want to think for themselves about moral issues. Latinos may be a majority soon.  2/21/2012

Missouri Synod Lutheran Leader Disgraces Himself in Public

Article  by Ed Knudson:  The Reverend Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, appears before a House committee set up to attack Obama on false grounds of religious freedom. No women allowed.  2/20/2012

Rick Santorum: Mainline Protestants are Gone from the World of Christianity

Article  by Alex Seitz-Wald:  A Roman Catholic presidential candidate has decided 45 million Protestants are under the sway of Satan. We Protestants should realize that we are seriously attacked today by the religious right.  2/18/2012

Reflections on a Pledge: Liberty and Justice for All

Article  by Gordon Merseth:  The writer reflects on what it means to take seriously both 'liberty' and 'justice' in the Pledge of Allegiance penned by Christian Socialist Francis Bellamy.  2/17/2012

Contraceptive Hysteria Grips Congress and the Religio-Patriarchy

Article  by Jodi Jacobson:  The bishops' arguments about religious freedom are phony, here are facts on birth control, how it helps women, what Republicans in congress are doing right now.  2/17/2012