God's Politics Blog » Movement http://blog.sojo.net A Blog by Jim Wallis and Friends Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:37:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 A Hold-Out and a Hunger Strike on Aid for Uganda http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/09/oklahoma-hold-out-on-aid-for-uganda/ http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/09/oklahoma-hold-out-on-aid-for-uganda/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:09:23 +0000 Lisa Dougan http://blog.sojo.net/?p=16646 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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]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/09/my-morning-with-daniel-berrigan/feed/ 0 What Does the Civil Rights Movement Have to Do With Me? http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/07/what-does-the-civil-rights-movement-have-to-do-with-me/ http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/07/what-does-the-civil-rights-movement-have-to-do-with-me/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:47:42 +0000 Jeannie Choi http://blog.sojo.net/?p=16554 This weekend I have the privilege of representing Sojourners magazine at the annual Faith and Politics Institute’s civil rights pilgrimage led by Congressman John Lewis. The delegation came to Alabama and has visited many landmarks of the civil rights movement, taking time to…

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]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/04/immigration-reform-change-takes-courage-and-faith/feed/ 27 What I Learned From the—Gasp!—Word of Faith Movement http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/03/what-i-learned-from-the%e2%80%94gasp%e2%80%94word-of-faith-movement/ http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/03/what-i-learned-from-the%e2%80%94gasp%e2%80%94word-of-faith-movement/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:30:11 +0000 Aaron Taylor http://blog.sojo.net/?p=16419 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…

]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2010/03/03/what-i-learned-from-the%e2%80%94gasp%e2%80%94word-of-faith-movement/feed/ 7 If the Tea Party movement were consistent, it would tackle defense spending. http://blog.sojo.net/2010/02/25/if-the-tea-party-movement-was-consistent-it-would-tackle-defense-spending/ http://blog.sojo.net/2010/02/25/if-the-tea-party-movement-was-consistent-it-would-tackle-defense-spending/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:30:17 +0000 Bryan Farrell http://blog.sojo.net/?p=16219 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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1) Palestinian Christians…

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]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2010/02/17/my-daniel-fast/feed/ 22 What if the Church were Christian? http://blog.sojo.net/2010/02/15/what-if-the-church-were-christian/ http://blog.sojo.net/2010/02/15/what-if-the-church-were-christian/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:00:28 +0000 Becky Garrison http://blog.sojo.net/?p=15901 100215-if-the-church-were-christianAs I stated in an earlier blog post, the juxtaposition of reading Philip Gulley’s book If the Church Were Christian while attending Trinity Institute’s “Building an Ethical Economy” really intrigued me. I decided to e-mail this Indiana-based Quaker minister to see…

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]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2010/02/01/50-years-later-from-a-sit-in-to-a-civil-rights-museum/feed/ 2 Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on Friendship and Leadership (Part 2) http://blog.sojo.net/2010/01/29/shane-claiborne-and-jonathan-wilson-hartgrove-on-friendship-and-leadership-part-2/ http://blog.sojo.net/2010/01/29/shane-claiborne-and-jonathan-wilson-hartgrove-on-friendship-and-leadership-part-2/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:57:54 +0000 Multiple Authors http://blog.sojo.net/?p=15376 [continued from part 1]

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…

]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2010/01/29/shane-claiborne-and-jonathan-wilson-hartgrove-on-friendship-and-leadership-part-2/feed/ 3 Interview with Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on Friendship and Leadership http://blog.sojo.net/2010/01/28/interview-with-shane-claiborne-and-jonathan-wilson-hartgrove-on-friendship-and-leadership/ http://blog.sojo.net/2010/01/28/interview-with-shane-claiborne-and-jonathan-wilson-hartgrove-on-friendship-and-leadership/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:00:49 +0000 Multiple Authors http://blog.sojo.net/?p=15375 Claiborne For Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, “subversive” friendship is about creating God’s counterculture in the midst of a dominant culture.]]> http://blog.sojo.net/2010/01/28/interview-with-shane-claiborne-and-jonathan-wilson-hartgrove-on-friendship-and-leadership/feed/ 4 What Would Jesus Do in Palestine? http://blog.sojo.net/2010/01/25/what-would-jesus-do-in-palestine/ http://blog.sojo.net/2010/01/25/what-would-jesus-do-in-palestine/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:00:48 +0000 Stephen Flohr http://blog.sojo.net/?p=15270 10012-090530-3652-palestineIt 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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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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