wisconsin

At this moment the embattled US labor movement urgently needs strong community-based allies and much greater moral legitimation, yet broad-based strategic and moral support from the religious side has been slow to materialize.

Wisconsin groups take a stand against union-busting and drastic cutbacks in social services.

And the violent bear it away.

Would Jesus be a union buster?

100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, a disaster that claimed the lives of 146 workers and galvanized the labor movement, public workers in Wisconsin and around the country are standing up to the largest-scale attack on American workers in recent history. Using the economic crisis as a pretext, and with financing from billionaire businessmen, Governor Scott Walker and others are trying to strip public unions of their collective bargaining power. This debate is not about trying to balance state budgets. This debate is about the future of American labor.

The United Methodist Church opens another chapter on gays and lesbians’ struggle to serve the church.

Big Government is the sacred enemy that animates the Tea Party uniting it in opposition to death panels, socialists, gun-control advocates, unions, Obamacare, deficits, and so on…

The events in Wisconsin seem to follow the Reconstructionist ideals.

What has faith to say about the conflict between Scott Walker and state workers’ unions?

How long is it going to take for it to sink in with religious leaders that it will soon be time to choose sides?