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In the News: Clip-clippety-clip

May 3, 2017

A round-up of recent religion news.

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Shopping for Salvation in a Brand New World

March 8, 2017

George Gonzalez asks "Will the revolution be commodified?"

Catholicism and The Colbert Report: An Interview with the Colbert Chaplain

January 26, 2015

Becky Garrison interviews The Colbert Report's Chaplain, James Martin, SJ.

The Very Thing That Made It Catholic

January 4, 2012

From Occupy Catholic, a new "testimony" by Steve Saporito: I have been separated from the church for a long time,...

Boehner's Progressive Catholic Problem

May 23, 2011

E.J. Dionne, Jr. on the non-scandal that was John Boehner's address to Catholic University: And the story broke from...

Tough on Terrorism

May 2, 2011

Howard Fineman gets off on the new military brute, brain and brawn of Democrats: "By calmly and meticulously overseeing...

Small-r Rebellion

December 11, 2010

Gary Younge, a feature writer for the Guardian, has written that the Tea Party is "not a new...

The Roots of Racism

September 25, 2010

Rachel Sladja at Talking Points Memo has a good piece up about the roots of all the recent...

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What Beck's Marching For: Making Social Justice Unjust

August 28, 2010

by Becky Garrison Look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church website. If you find it,...

Have Missions Forgotten their Purpose?

August 9, 2010

From Brent McCracken's recent post at Relevant magazine about what he sees as a renewed need for old-school...

Equivocating Poverty

July 26, 2010

From Peter Laarman's post at Religion Dispatches, "Taking Back 'Big Government Liberalism'": So here is my question for religious...

Jim Wallis, Between a Wall and Glenn Beck

July 1, 2010

Despite calls from sponsors to disinvite Jim Wallis as keynote speaker at next week's Lifest, an Evangelical...

Common Good Death Camps

May 29, 2010

Yesterday Glenn Beck struck out at Simon Greer, President and CEO of Jewish Funds for Justice for...