April 20, 2006 Earth Day Earth Day 2006 Religious leaders and communities of faith across the US are celebrating Earth Day this week in a variety of ways, including…
April 11, 2006 Holiday Spending Holiday Spending: How Much Is Enough? Christians (and other Americans) spend more money celebrating holidays (including Easter) than they do on all their charitable…
April 1, 2006 Immigration and the Church The Archbishop Got It Right Immigration legislation already passed by the House would make it a crime to give a meal or provide emergency…
February 10, 2006 Pat Robertson’s Evolution Pat Robertson’s Evolution His increasingly shrill descriptions of how God is punishing people around the world, whether heads of state or ordinary citizens, begs…
January 10, 2006 James Melvin Washington Dr. James Melvin Washington Historian, scholar, teacher and preacher, specializing in the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and an African American…
December 13, 2005 Holiday Spending Holiday Spending: How Much Is Enough? Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year celebrating the winter holidays including Christmas. Even as the…
October 28, 2005 Spending on Holidays in the US Holiday Spending: How Much Is Enough? Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year celebrating holidays including Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day,…
October 7, 2005 Is Bird Flu a Sign of the End? Does a Bird Flu Pandemic Foreshadow the End of the World? Some are predicting the end is near; others are banking on it. Let’s…
September 12, 2005 How Not to Help Hurricane Victims How Not to Help Hurricane Victims: Donors Beware In the days immediately following Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, FEMA came up with a…
September 7, 2005 New Orleans Evacuations Forced Evacuations?Contemplating the possibility that New Orleans officials will begin to force some citizens to abandon their homes at gun point fills me with…
