On justice, marriage, and Obama
…because not quite enough has been said about this yet.
If you’ve read a news magazine, been online or watched CNN in the past week, you know that May 9 President Obama finally came out and declared he was f...
Presidential Politics in the New South
I am a southerner -- born, bred, educated, and domiciled. I have been in many other places, both in this country and others, but my accent and worldview betray a deep southern bent. I was raised in a segre...
Again, Who Would Jesus Tax?
I tend not to be impressed when politicians use god-words. In fact I’m immediately suspicious. It seems to me that pandering to religious folks rather than the glorification of God is the goal. Too often t...
Dorothy Day the "Great Reformer"?
FEB 2, 2012 | BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- This morning, at the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama named Dorothy Day...
The People's Prayer Breakfast: An Alternative to the National Prayer Breakfast
How does a Christian live in a power-mad world? A world that, from the perspective of the Beatitudes, is upside down. A world where the poor are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer? Where natur...
My Disappointment in Obama and the Unbalanced Reporting of Fox News
The other day, I took the time to listen to Fox News. I couldn’t believe it when it was announced that Fox News was fair and balanced. All I heard was how terribly Barack Obama has served this country and how ...
System Failure: Raised Right
There are plenty of criticisms offered against today’s American youth and young adults. And despite the fact that I turn forty in a few weeks, I still consider myself among them: a kindred spirit of cultural o...
10 Years After 9/11: The Good and the Bad
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was at home in Washington, D.C. getting ready to go to Sojourners' office. I was upstairs listening to the news on NPR when I heard the first confusing report of ...
What's Wrong With America?
In the last few weeks we have witnessed for the first time in our history the down grading of America’s credit rating. Because of partisan feuding, and an effort by Republicans to undermine President Obama’s c...
All in the Family
I very much appreciated all the good things that Lucy Bryan Green had to say about “The Family” in the June edition of Sojourners. “The Family” is the name that Jeff Sharlet gives to “The Fellowship, ” a loose...