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Posts Tagged ‘Movement’
 On Feb. 1, 1960, four African-American students sat down at the “whites-only” lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. As I child, I was told by my late father that he took his youth group to…
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Q: You both attended and were in some ways formed by Eastern University. How would you credit Eastern with equipping you for the lives you’re currently leading?
Claiborne: Eastern has created that critical mass of folks that are…
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Tags: Books, Christ, Christian Community, church, Civil Rights, culture, disciple, dominant culture, Dorothy Day, economy, friendship, God, Gospel, interview, Jesus, Jesus for President, leaders, leadership, Movement, neighbor, New Monasticism, Poverty, Prayer, prophets, servant, service, Shane Claiborne, teaching, The Simple Way
  For Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, “subversive” friendship is about creating God’s counterculture in the midst of a dominant culture.
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Tags: Books, Christ, Christian Community, church, Civil Rights, culture, disciple, dominant culture, Dorothy Day, economy, friendship, God, Gospel, interview, Jesus, Jesus for President, leaders, leadership, Movement, neighbor, New Monasticism, Poverty, Prayer, prophets, servant, service, Shane Claiborne, teaching, The Simple Way
 It was 3 a.m. when they came barreling into town — Israeli jeeps and tanks preempting the dawn and hollering menacing messages over their loudspeakers. ‘Wake up you Arab dogs,’ they would exclaim as our team gathered to prepare our…
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Last week my wife and I had the grand opportunity to leave our two kids in the care of her parents and spend five days on vacation in California. Afterward we both agreed that it was probably the most enjoyable…
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Forty-two years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers demanding better wages and union representation. A leader of soaring eloquence and historic importance, King had met with presidents, traveled the globe…
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 This year, as we celebrate the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. we are too often tempted to celebrate what has been achieved rather than examine what God continues to call out of us. Hopefully we know…
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 Earlier this month, the nice folks over at The Washington Post’s Outlook section asked me to write an essay about what I thought the worst religious idea of the past decade was. I ended up giving them two essays, as…
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Advent is with us again, calling us to reflect and review, and the Sojourners policy team wants to thank you for walking with us in 2009. As we compiled this year-end policy and outreach review, we were inspired and thankful…
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Tags: abortion reduction, activist, advocacy, Afghanistan, bipartisan, capitol hill, climate change, consistent ethic of life, copenhagen, economic recession, economy, Environment, Faith-based, health care, Immigration, immigration reform, immigration system, justice, Justice Revival, legislation, Military, moral issue, moral values, Movement, Nuclear Weapons, partisan, peace, policy debate, policy experts, policy proposals, Poverty, poverty reduction, President Obama, Pro-choice, Pro-life, Texas, war in afghanistan, weapons
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 In the first year of Gail Collins’s survey of “the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present,” I turned 12. Not long after that, I told my father I was thinking of becoming a lawyer. “That’s not…
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Compassion is, by one definition, “a deep awareness and sympathy for another’s suffering.”
Karen Armstrong, the former Roman Catholic nun and one of the foremost writers on religion of our generation, and the renowned African spiritual leader and peacemaker Archbishop Desmond…
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 For those who came to the Justice Revival’s free opening night program (featuring former United Methodist District Superintendent and Texas State House Rep. Dr. Zan Holmes and Latin Grammy-winning gospel musician Jaci Velasquez) the spirit of a “Big Tent” was…
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Tags: 1950s, abuse, arrest, Blacks, Books, Campaign, church, Civil Rights, Cross-cultural, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Fiction, History, Integration, jail, Martin Luther King, Movement, oppression, paradox, protesters, Racial Reconciliation, reconciliation, Scripture, Segregation, stereotype, stereotypes, william faulkner
There is a line in the Riga Veda, a collection of ancient Hindu scripture, that says “Truth is One, but the sages speak of it by many names.” I had heard of this before, but hadn’t given it much thought…
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 Every day churches across the country respond to the economic crisis by supporting families in need, assisting those in search of a job, and reaching out to people on the back streets of America. At no time is the credibility…
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Tags: America, Bible, biblical justice, church, Community, congregations, dallas morning news, denomination, Economic, economic crisis, Families, food, gospel witness, healing, Homeless, Hope, Housing, Justice Revival, money, Movement, national economy, neighborhood, partnerships, Poverty, public schools, relationship, Schools, sheron patterson, social justice, streets, Worship
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, author Richard Doster enabled me to enter the world of Jack Hall, an idealistic white reporter based in the South during the late 1950s who struggled between his need to report the truth with…
