Putting the Death Penalty on Trial
We 12 acted out of conscience to stop the state from killing and to save a life.
Starvin’ for Justice: Abolishing the Death Penalty through Moral Witness
Support for state-sanctioned executions are at an all-time low, thanks in large part to the public education and witness of committed abolitionists.
Why the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision upsets women and men of faith
JULY 3, 2014 | BY: CAROL HOWARD MERRITT -- The Supreme Court’s decision to side with Hobby Lobby is a setback for all women, but...
“Color-blinded-ness” is Racism
APRIL 27, 2014 | BY: MORGAN GUYTON -- There’s been a lot of conversation about the Supreme Court ruling to end affirmative...
Shane Claiborne reflects on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
JAN 22, 2014 | BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- On January 22, 1973, the US Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade that a mother has the legal...
Sex, Pills and the Image of God
JAN 4, 2014 | BY: CAROL HOWARD MERRITT -- Even in our Christian theology, we have a terrible tendency to reduce the complicated facets....
The Government Shutdown – Fairness Over Love
OCT 1, 2013 | BY: ALISE WRIGHT -- Today 800, 000 government employees got an unpaid vacation and countless more get the unpaid...
Why I am against 'gay marriage' (and you should be too)
JULY 1, 2013 | BY: LOGAN MEHL-LAITURI - Let us be very careful in how we speak of our relationships. If marriage, let us mean one...
The biblical definition of marriage and its relevance to marriage equality
JUNE 19, 2013 | BY: KRISTEN HOWERTON -- Earlier this year, as the Supreme Court began the conversation around California's...
EXECUTION HALTED: Willie Jerome Manning
May 8, 2013 | BY: SHANE CLAIBORNE -- Within hours of his scheduled execution, Willie Jerome Manning’s death was stopped. The...