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  1. Call and Promise Abraham departs to Canaan
    11 Nov 1996 … When God chooses Abraham to found a dynasty, how does Abraham react? Scholar Robert Alter; law professor Azizah Y. al-Hibri; novelist Bharati Mukherjee; community activist Eugene Rivers III; theologians Lewis B. Smedes and Burton L. Visotzky; and playwright-composer Elizabeth Swados Continue reading
  2. My Sister Served in the Army. The Biggest Threat to Her Survival is Congress. Military service men and women and military academies join veterans for New York City's annual Veteran's Day parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Nov. 11, 2016. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … My older sister, Lynn, was always getting into trouble when we were kids. I was the goody two-shoes in the family, but if I did ever get myself in trouble, she’d get in even more trouble to help me out. Continue reading
  3. Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to potential supporters at a campaign stop in Urbandale, Iowa on Jan. 15, 2016. (Photo by Steve Pope/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … Donald Trump lowered the bar even further by attacking the Muslim parents of US Army Captain Humayan Khan, who was killed in 2004 by a suicide bomber while he was trying to save the lives of the men in his Continue reading
  4. Sister Joan Chittister on Religion and Politics. Afghanistan and Iraq. The Approaching Generational Storm. Afghanistan flag (Photo: New Zealand Defence Force/flikr CC 2.0)
    11 Nov 2004 … Sr. Joan discusses how religion became so strong a dividing line in American politics and war journalist Christian Parenti provides a close up view of the realities on the ground in Afghanistan. Continue reading
  5. What’s the Best Way to Solve the Student Debt Crisis?
    6 Jun 2013 … In our latest Group Think, experts suggest ways to address the crushing financial burden on American students. Continue reading
  6. The President Plays with Matches Indonesian demonstrators burn a photo featuring US President Donald Trump during a protest against his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Banda Aceh on Dec. 10, 2017. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2017 … Once again the country watches in horror as firefighters struggle to contain blazes of historic voracity — as we watched only a couple of months ago when at least 250 wildfires spread across the counties north of San Francisco. All Continue reading
  7. Years of Living Dangerously Returns To Television Sunday Years of Living Dangerously
    10 Oct 2016 … Though inadequate to save the planet, the Paris agreement was a major milestone, driven in part by President Obama’s willingness to take some initial action to confront this looming threat. Yet the topic of climate change hardly came up in Continue reading
  8. I’m Proud My Mother Was Arrested Fighting Extremism in North Carolina Holiday Clinkscale II waves an American flag as he joins thousands of people of protesters in downtown downtown Raleigh, N.C., Saturday Feb. 8, 2014. Nearly 200 organizations are joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the "Moral March on Raleigh," a new name for the "Historic Thousands on Jones Street," as it was originally called. Jones Street referred to the street where the Legislative Building stands and the usual terminus of the march. Advocates are angry about bills Gov. Pat McCrory has signed into law, including the refusal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law; a reduction in unemployment benefits; an elections-overhaul law that requires photo identification to vote in person; the elimination of the earned income tax credit; and taxpayer-funded grants for low-income children to attend private K-12 schools. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
    2 Feb 2014 … 80,000 marched in North Carolina to push back against the conservative agenda, the largest protest in the South since Selma in 1965. Continue reading
  9. Capitol Crimes
    9 Sep 2006 … Untangling the web of political corruption that continues even after the fall of Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff. Continue reading
  10. These Cities Might Just Save the Country Organizers at the Fearless Cities Summit in Barcelona on June 9, 2017. (Photo by ahora madrid | Flickr CC 2.0)
    7 Jul 2017 … Ever since the early hours of Nov. 9, 2016, an old English word with Greek roots has been seeping back into circulation. The word, kakistocracy, means “a government by the worst people,” and it has struck such a resonant chord Continue reading