Rich Cizik has been a pioneer in the "new evangelical" movement and a real hero, especially to the next generation of young believers. Rich has helped lead the way to putting "creation care" and climate change on the mainstream agenda of the evangelical movement. His pilgrimage to a deep...

This week GM printed a full page ad in Automotive News magazine to make a public apology. They said:

While we're still the U.S. sales leader, we acknowledge we have disappointed...

Time magazine just released its "Top Ten of Everything in 2008." "The Birth of the New Evangelicalism" came in at #7 on the top religion stories. The article is a big encouragement for all of us at Sojourners; here is an excerpt:

For decades leaders like Jim...

I have long supported effective partnerships between government and faith-based organizations. Unfortunately, during the years of the Bush administration these partnerships were often used for political ends. Two former staff members of the Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives -- John DiIulio's letter in Esquire magazine and...

"The appeal of terrorism is waning," said Mathew Burrows, head of long-range analysis in the office of the director of national intelligence. According to The New York Times, a new report from the National Intelligence Council, representing all 16 American intelligence agencies, predicts that "Al Qaeda could soon be...

After being hit hard in the press over taking private jets to ask for tax payers money, there are some promising signs of change from Detroit. The "Big Three" CEOs have agreed to work for a dollar...

Having talked to many friends since the election, I am conscious of how lots of us are still trying to let what happened sink in. Places form indelible parts of our memories, and I was especially struck how "places" changed last week.

In April, 1968, the streets...

I am sending you some wonderful memos, letters, and reflections on what your election means, and what people's hopes and prayers are for you--from an amazing array of moral and religious leaders from America and around the world. Some of my favorite pieces of their advice include: looking after...

Most elections are just power rearrangements; this one was a transformational moment in our history. A fundamental shift is taking place in America, and we saw the evidence on November 4th. It is a political shift, a cultural and racial shift, a generational shift, and a religious shift.
The...

On the eve of this historic election let us pause for a moment of thanks. We should thank God for the men and women who committed themselves to establish a new nation, in which voting was possible. We should thank God for the courage of the women of the Suffrage...

Hey Shane, thanks for weighing in. I appreciate it. I am so thankful for you and everybody who is asking the question of how to be faithful to Jesus at a time like this--and even in response to an election. I agree with much of what you said yesterday...

In the final days of this election campaign, a new message has emerged. For the entire political year, the overriding theme has been change--with each candidate competing to be the real champion for a new direction. With 80 percent of Americans unhappy with our country's current direction, it seemed that...

James Dobson, you owe America an apology. The fictional letter released through your Focus on the Family Action organization, titled "Letter From 2012 in Obama's America", crosses all lines of decent public discourse. In a time of utter political incivility, it shows the kind of negative Christian leadership that...

From the results of the very first primary in 2008, the winner of this year's election was very clear: Change. When 4/5ths of the American people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, what else could the popular sentiment be but a deep hunger for a new...

In 2004, several conservative Catholic Bishops and a few megachurch pastors like Rick Warren issued their list of "non-negotiables," which were intended to be a voter guide for their followers. All of them were relatively the same list of issues: abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, etc. None of them...

In Wednesday's presidential debate, the first steps were taken toward a new national conversation about abortion. For too many years, the old one hadn't changed very much. It came up every four years during elections and seldom in between. The Republicans repeated that they think abortion should just be...

"I think if McCain uses these very nasty character references he risks losing his soul. This is what he said he wouldn't do in this campaign," said author and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius Sunday morning on the Chris Matthews Show.

The language has indeed...

For too long abortion was seen as the only "life" issue in our culture and politics, but there is a growing conviction among Christians that poverty, disease, war, the health-care crisis, human trafficking, the death penalty, nuclear weapons, and the worldwide deaths of 30,000 children every day from preventable...

Church of the Resurrection takes its name seriously, and it should. You can't name yourself "Resurrection" and then do anything less than work for renewal and make the choice for hope. Eighteen years ago the church started out as 25 people worshiping in a funeral home. Adam Hamilton, then...

As the polls and media pundits have pointed out, many Americans are angry about this financial crisis, angry about a rescue plan that seems to bail out Wall Street more than them, and frustrated with the lack of clear solutions being offered by politicians. But underneath the anger, there...