Euthanasia Billboards, Post-Rapture Pet Care, Can You Tell a Burqa from a Hijab?
The week in religion, poetically.
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God’s Heart Has No Borders
Pierrette Sotelo on the role of progressive religious activists in the immigration debate…
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Yes We Can/Si Se Puede: Remembering and Forgetting Cesar Chavez (March 31, 1927—April 23, 1993)
President Obama got his campaign slogan from Cesar Chavez, but on this 16th anniversary of the great labor leader’s death we still have no national holiday to commemorate his legacy.
Read MoreDispatches from the Workplace: Bishops Lead the Cry to Stop Workplace Raids
Religious leaders have joined the protest against workplace raids, urging the government to implement a rational and humane approach to immigration reform.
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Can’t Get Away
In which our columnist on faith and worker justice takes a family vacation — just a few weeks before Labor Day — and takes the occasion to reflect on workplace conditions across the American labor landscape…
Read MoreDispatches from the Workplace: Postville: Ground Zero for the Intersection of Immigrant and Workers’ Rights
A rural town in Iowa is the home of the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant, a facility that–while already under scrutiny for its poor treatment of workers and animals–was recently the scene of the largest immigration workplace raid in history…
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