Jan Parker-padley So glad that you are 'out there' having impact and bringing some reason to the agenda of Christian faith in the USA and the world.
William Daylong Sojourners has long been on my reading list. Their social justice and advocacy ministries set a high standard. I commend them highly.
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Ardath Have been a fan for a very long time and love the books that Jim Wallis writes.
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Sojourners Magazine "President Obama's handling of the Sudan crisis is being watched around the globe, including the darkest corners where people without conscience may be planning the next mass atrocity." --John Prendergast and Maggie Flick (Read the rest here: http://bit.ly/i56x1). Do you think the Obama administration has done enough in Sudan?
Sojourners Magazine "I went on a 10-day silent retreat a while back. On day eight or nine, I was praying, and I kept bringing up these really sad, gripping issues. Suddenly God said, 'Laura, I've got it.' God loves these people more than I could ever love them." --Rev. Laura Truax of LaSalle Street Church, Chicago. Read the rest of her interview in this month's Sojourners (http://bit.ly/1JhGWy)
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Tell us about LaSalle Street Church. LaSalle is on the north side of the downtown area. Built in the late 1800s, it was a church-plant of the Moody Church. As the Italians later moved out of Cabrini-Green ...
Sojourners Magazine "Overcoming global warming requires that we deal now with both the causes and the consequences. We have to adapt--and help the poor adapt--to the impacts already in the pipeline, while we simultaneously reduce or mitigate the pollution causing the problem." --Jim Ball, in this month's Sojourners http://bit.ly/2LqnwD
Sojourners Magazine Jim Wallis interviews Harvard ethics professor, Michael J. Sandel about the need for civility in public discourse in this VIDEO: http://bit.ly/33Ivhs
Sharon Zeilstra Watching Thanksgiving and winter creep upon us, while ignoring premature Christmas hype
Stephanie Maybe touring the Southern Illinois wine country.
Sojourners Magazine It is with especial glee that we announce our new "Living the Word" columnist, Walter Brueggemann! When you're not attending a franciscan retreat, wine tasting, celebrating your anniversary, or watching community theater, please take a moment to study the lectionary this weekend with one fine teacher: http://bit.ly/3qXLk1
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Elizabeth (mother of John) and Mary (mother of Jesus) are kinswomen, a linkage that makes their sons cousins. The readings this month feature both cousins. It is important to see them commonly in their work of witnessing to God; it is equally crucial to see each of them at distinctive work.
