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Religion Dispatches
Steny Hoyer was right, and we should thank the House Majority leader for clarifying things. In a stem-winding speech urging the second impeachment of Donald Trump, he said he keeps hearing about “the…
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It is the poor and dispossessed as a class whose ethics and struggle must be centered if we are going to have a real moral revival — not the ethics of the “religious left” or of progressive Democrats.
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The religious left movement is stuck between the universalism of its aims and the particularity of the people who constitute it.
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Tonight, Faith in Public Life, one of the major organizations in the religious left, is…well, let their email tell you: Join us Tuesday night at 8 p.m. EST for a strategy call with Rev. Jennifer…
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Interfaith clergy group urges Senate to reject Sessions’ attorney general nomination
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Is the eve of Trump era the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb?
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Continuing the conversation on the role and reception of black Christian intellectuals in this country.
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Tuesday’s Democratic primary in New York made even clearer a point that has been obvious since Super Tuesday: Bernie Sanders almost certainly will not be the Democratic nominee in 2016. But that doesn…
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I’ve known Rev. Barber very well for some time now. He has given a series of talks here at Union on the Third Reconstruction, and he’s working with Union to expand the scope of his work beyond his…
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At a time when so much of American politics seems incited by fear and hatred, it is inspiring to read the words of Rev. William Barber, asking Americans to act in accord with what Lincoln called “the…
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