poverty

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?

Gratitude 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.

The phrase “cafeteria Catholic” first gained currency in the mid-1980s to describe—mostly disparagingly—progressive Catholics who pick and choose from church doctrine, following the precepts they like…

Over the past few weeks, a conflict has unfolded in Kentucky, revealing a split in American Christian conceptions of the individual and the individual’s role in society. Kentucky’s evangelical…

“Please don’t come here to solve our poverty when yours is so apparent,” the message goes.

A conversation with Rev. Faye London, of Tennessee’s SisterReach.

Mother Nature may not discriminate, but people of means have a much greater capacity to withstand disaster.

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

At 400 pages, Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream examines in appropriate depth the “mystery just how America’s once-austere and communal…

In another sign of just how far the agendas of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Pope Francis have diverged, it’s worth noting that at their recently concluded fall plenary, the bishops…