Think Progress is reporting that: “One week before House Republicans shut down the government in an effort to force President Obama to enact many of
More than 300 faith leaders from 39 states will be visiting members of Congress on Capitol Hill today to push for comprehensive and compassionate immigration
By the time I had signed for my check and walked off, I made a decision to lie about something. I decided that if asked what I do, I would lie and say that I was “a nonessential government employee.” This, I reasoned, would have the double benefit of bringing both awareness of a much larger issue and and keeping me from hearing an hour-long confession I was not prepared to hear.
The Ballard News Tribune notes that St Lukes Episcopal Church in Ballard (area of Seattle) petition to keep portable toilet in Ballard Commons:
United Methodist minister Morgan Guyton on the shutdown in Red Letter Christians:
UPDATE:
Throughout my SNAP Challenge, I kept returning to the same questions: What kind of society do we want to live in? Do we want to live in a country that turns a cold shoulder to the problem of hunger, or one in which we work together to face it head on?
Two reminders: the recent excommunication of a priest who advocated the ordination of women and new rules that limit Roman Catholic military chaplains ministry to homosexual service members.
Second, Francis says, from the point of view of the believer, dialogue with others is not a “secondary accessory” but rather something “intimate and indispensable.”
On the Eve of the 50th Anniversary of the the music that accompanied the March on Washington.