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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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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 June 22, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Is there a legitimate reason to read this as endorsing the use of political structures to help the poor and to not read it as endorsing the divine right of kings?
This is a typical problem I have with material like this. Maybe the poetry and wisdom passages of the Bible help us to celebrate the nature of our already formed spirituality rather that act as authority in guiding our views.
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