God's Politics Blog » Democrats http://blog.sojo.net A Blog by Jim Wallis and Friends Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:29:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Conservative Progressives? http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/16/conservative-progressives/ http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/16/conservative-progressives/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:34 +0000 Brian McLaren http://blog.sojo.net/?p=13420 It’s been said that conservatives are people who honor the tombs of dead progressives. If  that’s true, then within the Democratic movement, even with its progressive reputation, there could be a wing of conservative progressives, those who remember the good…

]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/16/conservative-progressives/feed/ 25 What Happens When a Wheaton Grad Runs for Congress as a Democrat http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/13/what-happens-when-a-wheaton-grad-runs-for-congress-as-a-democrat/ http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/13/what-happens-when-a-wheaton-grad-runs-for-congress-as-a-democrat/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:00:23 +0000 Matthew Soerens http://blog.sojo.net/?p=13377 Last weekend, as a group of religiously-committed pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives found themselves at odds with the majority of their party over an abortion-related amendment in the health-care reform bill, campaign veteran Kevin Spidel posted a thoughtful question…

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Of course, many Evangelicals — probably most — can answer that question without a moment’s thought: absolutely not. The Republican Party is still the…

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“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We…

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First, the faith community…

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]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/08/a-plea-for-a-new-generation-of-republican-leadership/feed/ 45 Honoring the Greatest Commitment of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Life http://blog.sojo.net/2009/08/26/honoring-the-greatest-commitment-of-senator-edward-kennedys-life/ http://blog.sojo.net/2009/08/26/honoring-the-greatest-commitment-of-senator-edward-kennedys-life/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:07:32 +0000 Jim Wallis http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11121 090826-edward-kennedyIn 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.

The very first Democrat to call…

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Dear Senators and Members of Congress:

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…

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]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/02/three-moral-issues-of-healthcare/feed/ 39 Mark Sanford’s Apology: Neither Sin nor Forgiveness Has any Party Affiliations http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/02/south-carolina-governor-mark-sanfords-apology/ http://blog.sojo.net/2009/07/02/south-carolina-governor-mark-sanfords-apology/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:46:41 +0000 Jim Wallis http://blog.sojo.net/?p=9816 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…

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As I’ve shared before, I’m neither a Democrat…

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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…

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