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Posts Tagged ‘Movement’
 My alarm went off at 5 a.m. today. As I sat up and unzipped my sleeping bag, a gust of Oklahoma wind bitterly ushered me into a new day. Drops of rain splashed my face, extinguishing the last few embers…
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 As a Sojourners intern last year, I, along with my community-mates, had the opportunity to request speakers to invite to address us during weekly seminars. Peace activist and poet Fr. Daniel Berrigan was on the top of my list. Corresponding…
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 The window is closing on comprehensive immigration reform. At least that’s what the politicians in Washington are saying. They’re afraid of more demagoguery. They’re afraid of upcoming elections. They’re afraid of the politics of fear. But I am more and…
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Perhaps you’ve heard of them. Televangelists with bouffant hairstyles and Rolex watches saying send me a dollar and God will give you a hundred, women with gaudy make-up, and the ever-famous “Be healed in the name of Jeeeee-sus” while pushing…
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On the one hand, as a new CNN poll shows, 11 percent of Americans identify with the movement. That’s a much larger portion of the population than I would have guessed. Think about it, one in ten!
On the other hand, as…
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 As far as African American history books go, Heroes in Black History is unique. First of all, it was written by a white couple whose passion for their subject matter leaps off the page. Second, the book places the spiritual lives…
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Sometimes things get so bad that you really don’t know what to say or do. When that happens, it’s a good time to fast and pray. Now, it’s always a good time for fasting and praying — especially during Lent,…
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 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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  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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 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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while attending Trinity Institute’s “Building an Ethical Economy” really intrigued me. I decided to e-mail this Indiana-based Quaker minister to see…
