In the wake of Tuesday’s elections where the Democrats lost governor’s races in New Jersey and in Virginia, some observers are advising President Obama to scale back his agenda. Health care and energy and education and banking reform and war…
Most of the country probably didn’t notice. Unless you live in Virginia, New Jersey, a couple areas in New York, or maybe even Maine or Washington state, it’s quite possible you heard little about Tuesday’s elections. But to the chattering…
We continue the roller coaster ride that we hope will end with universal or near universal coverage for health care in the United States. Those of us who favor, at the very least, a public option had reason to be…
Never underestimate the power of a determined family, the press, the internet, and an outraged public. Guardian Life has changed its policy and apologized to the Pearl family. Ian Pearl will continue to receive the home care he needs. Read…
Sixteen Christian leaders talk faith, policy, justice, and reform. Featuring Jim Wallis, Harry R. Jackson Jr., Alveda King, Brian McLaren, Barbara Williams-Skinner, Noel Castellanos, Diana Butler Bass, and more.
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We…
In his speech last evening, President Barack Obama made the commitments that a broad coalition in the faith community had asked for — reform as a moral issue, affordable coverage for all, and no federal funding of abortion.
I believe our nation works best with robust and civic dialogue and civil debate. For mature societal conversations to take place, at least two mature parties are required, and looking back over this summer, a second party is hard to…
In the aftermath of the 2004 presidential election, the Democrats were roundly accused of losing the “moral values voters” in America, and of being the party of “secularists” who were hostile to faith and religion.
I remember playing WWII as a boy. We would pick sides of American and Nazis. Of course, everyone wanted be the Americans, the good guys. The solution became to pretend the team you were on was the Americans and the…
A lot of us out here—in red states and blue—would like to get your attention about health-care reform. Some of us are terrified of government inefficiency, and some of us are terrified of big business…
Good health is the will of God for each and every one of his children. Death, disease, and pain did not exist in the Garden, and Revelation tells of a “new heaven and new earth,” where once again they will…
Over the course of the 2008 election season, I kept hearing from some of my conservative religious friends of the great presidential hopes they had for a smart and ambitious governor from South Carolina, Mark Sanford. Pressures are now mounting…
Did you read the news of Liberty University (founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell) removing the Democratic club as an offiicial Liberty club because the national party’s platform goes against the values of the school?
An important article appeared today in The Washington Post. It lays out the “philosophical shift” from the Bush administration to the Obama administration on nuclear weapons policy. Last month in Prague, Barack Obama committed to seek a “world without nuclear weapons”…
Here’s a video lecture by Professor of Christian Ethnics Gary Dorrien on an alternative economic model: Economic Democracy. This lecture was given at Union Theological Seminary as apart of the class U.S. Christianity and the Current Social Crisis, team taught by…
The University of Notre Dame recently announced that President Barack Obama will be its spring commencement speaker and that he will also be receiving an honorary doctorate of laws degree. For this act, Notre Dame should receive praise. And President…
In 2003, Call to Renewal was deeply engaged in working to have a refundable child tax credit included in that year’s tax cut legislation. Ultimately, the credit was dropped from the final legislation. In response, I wrote a column, explaining that we had…
It was just a couple of months ago that the country was embroiled in a debate about bailing out Wall Street. There was a national outcry from Democrats and Republicans not ready to part with $700 billion with little or…
Somebody had to say it, and they came from Hyde Park.
It was open knowledge among people in and around Springfield. Legislators and lobbyists alike openly talked about the fact that the governor would want to appoint somebody who would benefit…
In the aftermath of the 2004 presidential election, the Democrats were roundly accused of losing the “moral values voters” in America, and of being the party of “secularists” who were hostile to faith and religion.
