As Larry Summers Gently Sleeps: Will Obama Ever Turn Against Plutocracy?
Larry Summers can’t keep his eyes open for 30 frickin minutes while his President speaks of the need for the banks to play fair. Is there no more fitting symbol?
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Of Taxes, Tea, and Timidity: What Obama Should Tell the Protest’s Right-Wing Organizers
Obama might mention the super rich, for example.
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Easter in the Mountains: Christianity vs. The Call of the Wild
Can a This-Worldly and an Other-Worldly faith be friends?
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New Yorker on Banking Corruption: Suck it Up and Stop Whining
Pardon me, Nick, but the course you are recommending—and the White House policy you are explicitly endorsing—happens to represent a complete breach of public trust.
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A Post-Christian America? Not Quite—Though Devoutly to be Wished
Is there a connection between fewer identifying as “Christian” and “junk religion”? If the religious right is losing power why are Democrats so intent on “reaching out” to them?
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RDPulpit: The Prophets of Neoliberalism
Unless the religion of Greed can be displaced, a future of hope and social justice will be stillborn.
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Obama’s Pastor “Dream Team”
A front page story in the Times revealed that 5 different pastors are hard at work guiding our president. But why make it public?
Read MoreWill Jim Wallis Represent True Worker Justice Before Senate Committee?
Once again, despite having little to no expertise in the area, Jim Wallis has been tapped to give the progressive position. This time it’s the critical Employee Free Choice Act.
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Christian Silence on Banking Due to Concerns of Anti-Semitism?
Is this deference to bankers among the American religious an historical curiosity or de rigueur behavior? Let us hear from you!
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America’s Fat Tues Turns to Ash Wed: Imagine a Humility-Driven Recovery
The president boasted that America will be “back” economically, but can we can afford to go back to the kind of economy we had during the house of cards period?
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