If confession is the essential first step for healing and reconciliation, then the United States needs to confess that it was wrong to invade Iraq. Christian ethicists since St. Augustine have used Just War Theory to measure a war’s morality. Analyzing the Iraq invasion against that benchmark illuminates the invasion’s immorality.
On Friday, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (Calif.) announced it had begun sheltering Liliana, an undocumented woman facing a deportation order, as well as Pablo, her three-month-old boy. St. Luke’s is part of a faith-based effort calling itself the New Sanctuary Movement. It is a national coalition of congregations and religious organizations that promises “to protect immigrant workers and families from unjust deportation” by offering shelter and aid.
CNN offers coverage of a forum on faith and politics for Democratic candidates, moderated by Jim Wallis of Sojourners/Call to Renewal, and of faith-related content from a Republican debate. Read on for links to summaries and video clips.
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, who is running for the Republican nomination for President, wrote a column in The New York Times recently defending his
The personal faith of candidates has become a very public part of the 2008 presidential campaign. Seven years after George W. Bush won the presidency in part with a direct appeal to conservative religious voters…it seems all the leading presidential candidates are discussing their religious and moral beliefs, even when they’d rather not.
The Rev. Dr. Luis Leon, rector of St. John’s Lafayette Square in Washington, DC (the church of the presidents, and the parish where President Bush frequently worships) has spoken out in strong support of immigration family reunification.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and four leaders of Protestant denominations wrote to the U. S. Congress May 10 to urge budget negotiators to preserve
Beginning next week, key congressional committees will begin drafting the 2007 U.S. farm bill, according to the Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations. The bill affects every American – and most people around the world – in one way or another. US farmers and rural communities. have an important stake in the legislation, as do hungry people in our own country and people living in deadly poverty around the world.
“I am amazed that making healthcare coverage free for all North Carolina children whose family income falls between 200% and 300% of the federal poverty guideline saves the taxpayers money but is nevertheless politically a non-starter.”
A New York Times analysis shows that the number of earmarks for religious organizations have increased sharply in recent years. From 1989 to January 2007, Congress approved almost 900 earmarks for religious groups, totaling more than $318 million. The Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations finds the trend troubling.