Big Storms Require Big Government

Article  by Christian Parenti:  Climage change is real, 2011 was a year of extreme weather events requiring major responses from government without which communities cannot recover. Anti-government zealotry is clearly wrong-headed.  1/26/2012

The Gingrich Winning Formula: Racist Backlash Rhetoric

Article  by Adele M. Stan:  Gingrich won in South Carolina by playing the race card over and over. He is a dangerous, demogagic figure threatening to the future of justice in this country.  1/22/2012

Concern for Economic Justice is Based on Envy Not Fairness, says Romney

Article  by Tanya Somanader:  On the Today Show Mitt Romney tells Matt Lauer that Obama is against 'one nation under God' by criticizing wealth distribution and predatory financial practices. See the video here.  1/12/2012

A True Public Theology: Grounded with the Crucified Peoples of History

Article  by Chris Hedges:  A new book by James Cone, 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree,' points to the reality of faith in a way neither Barth nor Niebuhr could do. Black theology points the way forward for the Protestant church  1/9/2012

Conserving Hierarchies of Power

Article  by Corey Robin:  Conservative political philosophy assumes the few are superior to the many and justifies gross inequalities according to the auther of The Reactionary Mind.  1/5/2012

Capitalist Pornography: The Social Construction of the Isolated, Lonely Male

Article  by Harriet Fraad:  The emasculation of men is not caused by female equality but by an unjust economic system which hurts everybody, male and female, much misunderstood by the religious right.  12/29/2011

Christmas Message 2011 from the General Secretary of the WCC

Article  by Olav Fykse Tveit:  A just peace is the theme of the message this year based on the work of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation.  12/22/2011

The Tea Party Republican Problem: A Continuation of Backlash Politics by Angry, White, Southern Males

Article  by Robert B. Reich:  Here backlash politics, a big theme of this website, is clearly documented, with reference to Newt Gingrich.  12/22/2011

Newt Gingrich Began the Politics of Hatred and Division, Receives Cheap Grace

Article  by Max Blumenthal:  Evangelical leader James Dobson first hated Gingrich then offered him cheap forgiveness. Here is the paradigmatic backlash politician from the South, now a front runner Republican.  12/19/2011

Public Theology and Social Democracy

Article  by Ed Knudson:  The social democratic tradition is important for public theology today. Religion in politics globally and in the United States continues to have influence. Michael Harrington had some advice on this.  12/17/2011

The Facts are in about Charter Schools and Vouchers: They Flunk

Article  by Diane Ravitch:  The fanatical beliefs about standardized testing, charter schools and so-called school choice are destroying our public schools and failing low-income and minority children. Here is what to do...  12/17/2011

Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: An Exciting Model for a New Economics

Article  by Gar Alperovitz:  People sense there is something terribly wrong with things as they are. Decline and decadence are not inevitable. From Mondragon to Cleveland, worker cooperatives can be a community-building system.  12/17/2011

Police Oppression at Seattle Port Protest in Support of Port Truckers

Article  by John Helmiere:  A Methodist minister is brutally beaten by Seattle Police as he demonstrated with Occupy the Ports on the west coast.  12/15/2011

Obama Finally Speaks Clearly about Economic Inequality

Article  by Steve Benen:  Obama goes to Osawatomie, Kansas, to echo themes of Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism speech 101 years ago.  12/7/2011

Lay Catholics: It's Time to Organize against the Bishops

Article  by Ed Knudson:  Action is needed inside the Catholic Church and ecumenical organizations against bishops now badgering President Obama about contraception services in health care.  12/5/2011

Occupy Movement is a Force that can Revitalize Traditional Christianity

Article  by Chris Hedges:  Were you there, the author asks, when they crucified the movement, a call to Trinity Church in NYC to allow use of an empty lot for the movement.  12/5/2011

Secret Fed Loans to Big Banks Now Exposed

Article  by Bob Ivry:  Here are the details of the largest bank bailout in U.S. history, which could unite folks in the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.  11/28/2011

Loving the Neighbor in the Occupy Movement

Article  by Craig R. Loftin:  Here is an example of how to get involved with the Occupy Movement in your city, taking concrete steps to help others in the quest for justice in the world today.  11/27/2011

The Gross Injustice of Corporate Control of Medical Research and the Patenting of Genes and Tissues

Article  by Brad Jacobson:  An interview with Harriet Washington about her new book on the shocking corporate takeover of basic elements of life itself and what can be done about it.  11/26/2011

A Stunning Triumph for the Occupy Movement

Article  by Andy Kroll:  Changing the terms of public debate from austerity to inequality has already had many broad effects, including victory in Ohio for opposition to Governor John Kasich's anti-union bill.  11/21/2011

Military State Capitalism: The Wrong Jobs Program

Article  by Mark Engler:  Anyone who thinks of themself as a capitalist should read this article. Some capitalists today actually agree more than they know with Marxist economists.  11/17/2011

Occupy the Pulpit

Article  by Mark Engler:  More real pastors need to be at events of the Occupy movement, rather than just the theatrical Reverend Billy.  11/15/2011

Football, Rape, Cash: Idolatry

Article  by Arthur Waskow:  The systematic idolatry of football at Penn State and beyond is the true culprit covering up the sin of child abuse by Jerry Sandusky.  11/14/2011

Subversive Remembering for the Sake of the World: Ecclesia in Times of Downturn

Article  by Karen L. Bloomquist:  Creative theological thinking needs to be encouraged and deepened in light of the urgent economic, political, cultural challenges today.  11/7/2011

A Movement for a Moral Economy

Article  by Frances Fox Piven:  A well-known sociologist discusses the war against the poor exposed now by the Occupy Wall Street movement which focuses on social justice, inequality, as the central issue of our times.  11/7/2011

Goldman Sachs is Exposed by Wall Street Protesters

Article  by Chris Hedges:  The author is arrested outside the bank's headquarters where he conducted a People's Hearing with Cornel West.  11/4/2011