ROUNDTABLE: And They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our …

That was the title Diedre Houchen gave the Roundtable discussion she led last Thursday.  After sharing some of her own faith journey, she invited others to share a bit of their own.  Many had similar tales of finding connection with a particular community or way of being “spiritual,” then leaving to move on to something [...]

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ROUNDTABLE: Liberation Theology and Guatemalan Gang Violence

 
 Joe Brew, Kelli’s son, is about to leave for his third summer in Guatemala where he will teach at the “Institut,” a school which Holy Faith Catholic Church, the GCW’s home parish, helps sponsor.  He led the Roundtable discussion this past Thursday.
Joe talked about the growth of gangs in Ciudad Quetzal, an extremely impoverished area on [...]

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SCRIPTURE: Financial concerns … or idol worship?

Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners — the community and the magazine — and a best-selling author (God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, among others) used to give a stump speech that included a much-told story from his youth that made quite an impression on me. He [...]

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OPINION: What’s Wrong with Jeremiah Wright?

Now that a little of the furor over the sound bites from Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons and his recent interviews has died down, I can’t help wondering what’s wrong with Wright.  Some of his more inflammatory assertions – that the U.S. government could have introduced the HIV/AIDS virus and drugs into the black community, that we are [...]

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