Religion Dispatches
Sure, religious households give more money away than unaffiliated households. But do they ever question why poverty and hunger and homelessness continue to soar in this supposedly “rich” country?
Read MoreGratitude operates like resentment. When we find ourselves in a position of owing—and people in a democratic society always owe something to other people—we may become vulnerable to control.
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The phrase “cafeteria Catholic” first gained currency in the mid-1980s to describe—mostly disparagingly—progressive Catholics who…
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Over the past few weeks, a conflict has unfolded in Kentucky, revealing a split in…
Read More“Please don’t come here to solve our poverty when yours is so apparent,” the message goes.
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A conversation with Rev. Faye London, of Tennessee’s SisterReach.
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Mother Nature may not discriminate, but people of means have a much greater capacity to withstand disaster.
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An interview with Alison Collis Greene, author of No Depression in Heaven: the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
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At 400 pages, Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American…
Read MoreIn another sign of just how far the agendas of the U.S. Conference of Catholic…
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