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• What Do Health-Care Reform, the 40-Hour Work Week, Unemployment Insurance, the Minimum Wage, etc., Have in Common?

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  Well, they were all brought to you be political progressives, they were all opposed by political conservatives, and they all are now viewed as fundamental presuppositions of a healthy society by virtually everyone.  Okay, all but health-care reform, but trust…
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• ‘The Three Most Important Issues’?: What the Manhattan Declaration Gets Wrong

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  As I said in my previous post , I can find things to applaud in the recent Manhattan Declaration along with things to dispute. But I don’t think Chuck Colson got it quite right when he spoke about the statement to the…
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• The Vision That Already Unites Us

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 548
  Do you want to see the oceans free of pollution? Do you think America should lead the Third World to achieve sustainable economies? Do you defend freedom of religion and an end to religious fanaticism in all its forms? Do you want full equality of rights for immigrants? Do you want [...]
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• Taking down righties’ moral hazard meme

  
  Oh!pinion — Authority: 414
  O ur response to a comment at Major Conflict , under the post, “The Song Remains the Same,” provided a chance to fire back at one all-too-typical regurgitation of conservative conventional wisdom. We hope using the resulting broadside for a post doesn’t strike you as too self-indulgent. First, the part of ...
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• Is America Ungovernable?

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  Otto von Bismark, the 19th century Iron Chancellor and architect of modern Germany, once remarked that “If you like law and sausages, you shouldn’t watch either being made.” One could observe that this is not quite correct; the process of stuffing offal into sausage skins is far less disgusting than that of ...
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• Audio: Habermas, Taylor, Butler and West Discuss ‘The power of religion in the public sphere’

  
  Tomorrows Trust - A Review of Catholic Education — Authority: 135
  November 23, 2009 (Catholic education, Catholic schools) The SSRC blog The Immanent Frame: Secularism, religion and the public sphere has a four part audio series on the topic “Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere”.  It features speeches by Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles ...
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• Boys are Warriors and Girls are Princesses? Spiritual Gifts are not Divided by Gender

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  Have you ever visited your local Christian bookstore as an exercise in gender studies? Notice as you walk down the “women’s” aisle how all the books take on shades of pink and lavender. Have a careful look, also, at the…
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• The Locavore’s Dilemma: What We Eat is More Than Just a Personal Choice

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  I’m a cradle vegetarian. Didn’t have even a bite of meat — red or white, fish or fowl — until I was maybe eleven years old, and then I lost my dietary virginity to a hot dog. Go ahead and…
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• Addressing God in the Plural

  
  Creo en Dios! — Authority: 129
  I’m reading a book by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin titled, Jewish Wisdom: Ethical, Spiritual, and Historic Lessons from the Great Works and Thinkers , a wonderful collection of stories from the Bible and the Talmud, enriched with insights of Jewish thinkers over the years. It is giving me much to think about. Not long ...
  2 weeks ago

• Herald features divided Coll

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  This has been reported in Argyll much earlier but yesterday’s (13th November) Herald newspaper brought the matter to national attention.Headlined ‘Battle of islanders may Coll off £2.5 million project’, the article features the almost equal division on the island on whether to accept the £852,329 funding won ...
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• Catholics United, Catholics in Alliance, Catholic Democrats: Front for Proabortion Politicians

  
  Lead Us Not into Temptation — Authority: 138
  Father Z has a post up on a great article outlining how the Proabortion Politicians and Organizations set up phony organizations to hijack Catholics who have been misled by unfaithful priests . Misleading “Catholic” organizations such as Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good operated ...
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• Guest Post: The Common Good – An Emergent Phenomenon

  
  MandM — Authority: 127
  This guest post comes from Nyokodo of And All These Things… and gives an overview of the Catholic teaching on the common good. The documents of the Church and the writings of most socially minded scholars are replete with exhortations for public figures to work towards the common good in all secular affairs. In ...
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• Freedom from Fear in the Health-Care Debate

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  There comes a moment when we can say a word or speak a concept so often that it loses meaning and simply becomes sound.  The concept becomes exhausted, thin, one-dimensional.  Such was the case with the word and the concept…
  2 weeks ago

• Daniel Callahan on the “Common Good” from ‘Religion & Ethics Newsweekly’

  
  Tomorrows Trust - A Review of Catholic Education — Authority: 135
  November 8, 2009 (Catholic education, Catholic schools) In this video Daniel Callahan speaks on the topic of the “common good”, which he wrote about for Commonweal last month ( transcript here ).In the context of current Canadian politics, the issue of Full day Kindergarten or Early Learning is an issue of ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Speciousness of Anti- Health Care Reform Arguments

  
  Ponderings on a Faith Journey — Authority: 431
  Ive always wondered what the hang up was with health care reform. Even though current federal law prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion, opponents have consistently insisted that it would fund abortions. So, wheres the loophole, Ive wondered. Well this morning on the news, I got my answer. Private ...
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• Big Oil, Corporate Greed, and Social Sin

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  As an urbanite fortunate to live within walking distance of work and trendy restaurants, I rarely drive these days. But running late to a pickup basketball game recently, I was low on gas and quickly pulled into the first station…
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• My letter to Senators Voinovich and Brown

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 119
  Our country is in desperate need of citizens who rise from the malaise of work and mindless television to play an active role in shaping the future of our society.  We are cynical, jaded people about the problems of the world primarily because we haven’t had a way modeled for us to find joy and [...]
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• The Health-Care Rollercoaster Rolls On

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  We continue the roller coaster ride that we hope will end with universal or near universal coverage for health care in the United States. Those of us who favor, at the very least, a public option had reason to be…
  4 weeks ago

• A Prayer for the Earth

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 645
  Tim Costello of World Vision Australia and I have been working behind the scenes to compose a prayer that could be used by individuals and groups leading up to the Copenhagen gathering on climate change Dec. 6. Click here to read…
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• Get Involved - More Action, Less Talk

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 486
  It has been over a month since my last post but its because I have been active.While I love to share my voice through blogging and micro-blogging, I love action even more. Since May of this year, I have been assisting a local city council candidate in his run for an at-large seat. And I can honestly say that Ive met ...
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