Moral Monday: A Joint Statement by Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and United Methodist Leaders in North Carolina

Article  Over 500 clergy and others have been arrested in North Carolina protests, and thousands have supported them. Tea Party, Southern Republicans are going too far in their attacks on the poor.  6/18/2013

Obama Joins Intense Religious Conflict within Syria Threatening Wider Middle East War

Article  by Robert Fisk:  Past religious wars between Protestants and Catholics can be compared to current Sunni-Shia conflicts in Syria and the Middle East. Read here about Russia's stake in this conflict too.  6/18/2013

Thousands Sign New Education Declaration Calling For New School Policies

Article  by Jeff Bryant:  People like Diane Ravitch, Linda Darling-Hammond, union leaders Randi Weingarten and Dennis Van Roekel; parent activists, such as Rita Solnet; authors Jonathan Kozol Dave Eggers, support this effort.  6/18/2013

Lutheran Church Elects First Openly Gay Bishop

Article  by Ross Murray:  R. Guy Erwin is the first openly gay bishop elected in the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Church in America. He is also Native American and a professor of historical theology.  6/18/2013

Predators and Creators in the Future of Capitalism

Article  by Geoff Mulgan:  The economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy, but the crisis also presents an historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism.  5/26/2013

Moving Beyond the Dangerous Tea Party Myths

Article  by Patrick Smith:  This Memorial Day we should begin to think about America in a different way, not as a powerful exceptional nation, but as a strong people able to admit defeat and willing to change.  5/26/2013

The Next Left: A Viable Political Strategy for the Multitude

Article  by Bhaskar Sunkara:  Here is a political strategy from a young intellectual which can be strongly endorsed by a credible Public Theology. It explains why Obama is failing. Jesus was a radical in his time,  5/24/2013

Interpretive Ethics: Racism Defines the American Right

Article  by Robert Parry:  Read this very important history. From the start of the Republic to today’s Republican ranting against Barack Obama, racism has been a central element of the American Right.  5/21/2013

Food Justice and Radical Eating

Article  by Mark Engler:  Corporate agriculture, organic foods, local farming, fair trade are topics here. The views of Michael Pollan, Raj Patel, David Granatstein, Fedele Bauccio, are discussed.  5/19/2013

Let's Hear Praise for IRS Workers

Article  by Ed Knudson:  The press can't help itself, it must report the most negative and hostile view of things, without basic logic, and Obama joins the chorus.  5/18/2013

A New Corporate World of Privilege and Prerogative

Article  by Stanley Aronowitz:  Here is an update on a famous 1950s book by C. Wright Mills called 'The Power Elite' which can help us understand corporate power today and its influence in government.  5/17/2013

The Economy is Personal: Listening to the Crash Generation

Article  by Nona Willis Aronowitz:  Down but not out, Millennials who came of age during the Great Recession could reshape the American economy and society.  5/17/2013

Calvinism Gone Wild: Billionaires Dominate Politics

Article  by Andy Kroll:  Political parties no longer have much power to choose candidates. Billionaires control the process now. The IRS cannot or will not do much about it. The media ignore all this.  5/16/2013

Summer Heat: We Are All Needed, Now More Than Ever

Article  by Bill McKibben:  Things will really heat up the last two weeks of July this year. To address climate change, people are organizing multiple action events, some leading to arrest. Join this effort now!  5/15/2013

What Should the U.S. Do Now About Syria?

Article  by Ron Young:  To have a realistic chance of success, an international intervention would have to involve Russia - and Iran and China - as well as the major countries supporting the rebels.  5/14/2013

What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

Article  by Sam Pizzigati:  Gar Alperovitz in a new book envisions a steady expansion of wealth-democratizing institutions creating a prehistory for the next American revolution. Here is a realistic economic strategy!  5/13/2013

God as Community

Article  by Ed Knudson:  A sermon for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 12, 2013, at Augustana Lutheran Church in Portland, Oregon.  5/12/2013

A President for Everyone, Except Black People

Article  by Kevin R. Johnson:  A pastor in Philadelphia wonders why a black president is taking black people for granted, in both his appointments and his policies....not a transformational president.  5/7/2013

Coal Trains Threaten the Pacific Northwest

Article  What is especially not needed right now is more infrastructure to transport and burn more coal in the world. The fact is that coal is dirty energy, very dirty. It should be left in the ground.  5/2/2013

America’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

Article  by David Sirota:  Chalmers Johnson's notion of 'blowback' is adopted by a revered journalist, Tom Brokaw, concerning the Boston Marathon bombing. Jeremiah Wright wasn't so wrong after all.  4/26/2013

Understanding the Enemy-Industrial-Complex

Article  by Tom Engelhardt:  Pastors will find here much on which to build sermons on peace and war, and the danger of trusting leaders who create fear and lie about the real enemy.  4/15/2013

Sequester Cuts Hurt Millions of Working Class Families

Article  by Kate Randall:  The economy itself suffers when government stops supporting working class families. Conservatives today want to hold back economic success for these families.  4/10/2013

The Second Thief: Recognition of Injustice

Article  by Ed Knudson:  On the cross Jesus portrays paradise as a place of justice, a place for those who recognize injustice in the land. To fear God is to understand God as a God of justice.  3/28/2013

Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World

Article  by Michael Schuman:  News flash: This article on Marx was published in the business section of Time magazine! Maybe the business class is getting seriously worried about inequality.  3/27/2013

Brand Portland — The Greenwashing Machine

Article  by Nicholas Caleb :  Nothing is sacred, market thinking trumps everything, even in Portland, Oregon. This is a manifesto for environmental justice.  3/23/2013

Introducing the Concept of ‘Death Camp Thinking’

Article  by Ed Knudson:  When otherwise good people promote policies destroying the lives of millions, such as libertarian thinking today, it should be called what it is.  3/22/2013