by Robert Parham | Sep 8, 2011 | Opinion
When the political debate turned earlier this year to deeply cutting the federal budget at the expense of programs that protect the poor, a number of goodwill Christians voiced opposition. EthicsDaily.com editorials questioned what House Republican cuts would do to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 7, 2011 | Opinion
When news trickled out last week that Hector Villanueva had been granted relief from the threat of deportation, he wasn’t the only one who felt relief. It had been a long, nervous year. I first wrote about the case just over a year ago, shortly after five...
by Martin Marty | Sep 7, 2011 | Opinion
Hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, famines, tsunamis, floods, volcanic eruptions and many other natural disasters – supernatural disasters and signals to Glenn Beck and Pat Robertson – are prime global and local topics. They inspire prayer and practical responses, but...
by Daoud Abudiab | Sep 7, 2011 | Opinion
What happened on 9/11 was horrible by any standard. Muslims across the United States and the world spoke strongly against the violence and condemned it as terrorism and an act that is un-Islamic. That is not to say that all Muslims did that, or that all Muslims think...
by Mark Woods | Sep 6, 2011 | Opinion
The 30th anniversary of the GreenhamCommonWomen’sPeaceCamp in Berkshire, England, which irritated the military and political establishment from 1981 until 2000 – though the last missiles left in 1992 – was appropriately observed with newspaper articles and TV...
by James Wellman and S.R. Thompson | Sep 6, 2011 | Opinion
America’s foreign interventions over the last century arise from deeply held religious motivations. The source of these motivations reaches back to the end of the 19th century and the invention of the “social gospel.” A gospel that would redeem not...
