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Lord have mercy

Mercy is the missing factor in our ever-stranger political debates about immigration, health care, joblessness, financial reform and local government budgets. A nation founded on mercy -- as shown in religious tolerance, in a Bill of Rights, in a Civil War fought to end slavery, in an open door to "huddled masses" and in the Marshall Plan -- seems to have decided that mercy is no longer affordable. Or even necessary.

By |2022-08-03T23:01:05+00:00July 29, 2010|Journalism|0 Comments

Anthropologist is seeing a higher number of bodies found in desert

Every year for the past decade, more than 200 suspected illegal immigrants have died crossing the U.S.-Mexican border into Arizona. That's roughly half of all such immigrants who die in the U.S., according to the U.S. Border Patrol and a 2009 American Civil Liberties Union study. Anderson's job is to get their bodies - or what is left of them - back to their families.

By |2022-08-03T23:01:05+00:00July 1, 2010|Journalism|0 Comments

Beyond the God Gap

We live in a new era, marked by an aging and declining Christian right that is increasingly eclipsed by the Tea Party, a nascent but growing chorus of diverse progressive religious voices, and a broadening of political agendas among many people of faith. Maybe it's time to rethink our assumptions about religious Americans and public policy.

By |2022-08-03T23:01:06+00:00July 1, 2010|Journalism|0 Comments

Obama’s Religion Ambassador: Inexperienced?

President Obama’s recent announcement of his intent to nominate the Rev. Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook, or Dr. Sujay, as she is known on the “circuit,” as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, was soft news in a busy news week. But despite the lack of attention to what should be a critical diplomatic post, the nomination speaks volumes about the President’s proclivity for flash rather than substance in religious matters.

By |2022-08-03T23:01:06+00:00June 30, 2010|Journalism|0 Comments

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