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Why I Work for Immigration Reform (by Patty Kupfer)
When I tell people that I work on immigration reform, they usually laugh or say, "way to pick an easy topic." Everyday it feels like there is more fear, more hate. Raids are picking up in Nevada, California, and New York. A number of senators who supported comprehensive reform only a few months ago
posted 12:30:52pm Oct. 16, 2007 |
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Audio: Jim Wallis on "Value Voters" on The Tavis Smiley Show
Last week Jim was on The Tavis Smiley Show and talked about how the changing political landscape will affect the upcoming '08 election. Jim and Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state, debated and discussed both the impact of "value voters" on the election and what those values entail.
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posted 10:11:56am Oct. 16, 2007 |
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Verse of the Day: 'peace to the far and the near'
I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will lead them and repay them with comfort, creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and the near, says the Lord; and I will heal them. But the wicked are like the tossing sea that cannot keep still; its waters toss u
posted 9:35:01am Oct. 16, 2007 |
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Daily News Digest (by Duane Shank)
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Blog action day. Thousands of bloggers unite in blitz of green
posted 9:31:25am Oct. 16, 2007 |
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Voice of the Day: Donders on Jesus' Approach
Jesus' approach is always fresh, surprising, new, and unexpected. Consequently, it always provoked a direct reaction.... He shattered firmly formed convictions and beliefs. He often used nonreligious language, avoiding the religious language of his contemporaries, a language that had been used so lo
posted 9:22:01am Oct. 16, 2007 |
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posted April 17, 2007 at 2:03 am
I love Rumi. He is one of the most beautiful human beings in history. May God bless him and his poetry. Truly he is magnificent. p
posted April 17, 2007 at 8:19 pm
My bother and his wife gave me a book of Rumi’s poetry. There is enough in a single poem to contemplate for an entire day. At the same time by brother gave me a book of the poetry of Hafiz, whose grave I visited while living in Iran in 1978.