Items tagged politics

• The politics of truth and love

  Though it may seem oxymoronic to talk about politicians with integrity, we can work for change inspired by one man's example.

• Koyzis? vision

  Political Visions & Illusions explores how various political ideologies distort the Gospel message and presents biblical alternatives.

• Star-spangled dreams

  Wouldn't we all love to live in the country of our dreams?

• Christian principles in an election year

  The NCC presents ten biblical statements for consideration in the voting process.

• Dreaming in sugar

  How food and identity are intertwined in Cristina Garcia?s Dreaming in Cuban.

• Men are prigs

  Marilynne Robinson frees John Calvin from historical captivity in The Death of Adam.

• The restoration of a nation

  What do God's words of comfort to the Israelites in exile have to say to us today?

• Mea Culpa

  On why Christians should be disturbed by the current war in Iraq and what we should all be doing about it, regardless of our opinion.

• True, in the end

  A review of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

• Paint, politics and parents

  Approaching lead poisoning as an issue of environmental justice.

• Transforming Reznor

  Is NIN’s Year Zero the beginning of the beginning?

• Heaven’s gated communities

  How did contemporary evangelicalism catch such a dreadful disease?

• To tell the story

  An interview with Brenda Truelson Fox, director of the film Conviction.

• Grant’s recommendations 2.22.08

  Jim Wallis spreads the good news and the Conchords mock-rock NYC.

• Just relax

  A lesson from Gamaliel about human movements and God’s movement.

• Freedom to speak

  A tradition of the Indiana Republican party illuminates the gift of participation.

• How did we get here?

  Reflecting on political divisiveness after a rally for Barack Obama.

• Somebody’s lost his wig

  Looking at where the U.S. has been can help guide where the country is going.

• An ode to the ambidextrous

  Overcoming political fundamentalism with a little openness.

• Out of the closet, into the forest

  Reflection on a change in thinking that has had relational consequences.

• This was not always the case

  A letter to future offspring in the wake of a U.S. election.