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Put Your Money Where Your Faith Is: under the

Sandwiched somewhere between the Lord’s Prayer and the closing hymn comes the Sunday morning offering—a staple of Presbyterian worship. The organ plays or the choir sings while faithful churchgoers...

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A Pedagogy of Submission: Reeducating Ourselves to Embody Our Belief in a...

Chris Heuertz describes the role of education in his mission to serve the poor, including the shift in vision that inspired his community of volunteers to serve the poor relationally rather than...

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A Message to the Fine and Shabby: James’s Epistle on Poverty

In this essay, Dr. Story discusses the book of James's message to the powerful rich and the vulnerable poor, a message that is especially relevant to the socioeconomic issues in the twenty-first...

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The Subversion Will Not Be Televised: An Interview with Vinoth Ramachandra

This interview explores the themes of the book "Subverting Global Myths," by Vinoth Ramachandra, which investigates modern narratives of terrorism, human rights, science, and religious violence.

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Finding Our Own Calcutta: Mother Teresa and the Infinite God Dying of Love

What could a worldly professor learn from a saint about dying as a means of living out a calling in Christ?

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Politics, Virtues, and Struggle: An Interview with Cornel West

An interview with Cornel West on a range of issues, including politics, religion, power, language, the economy, and race.

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In Praise of Dishonest Managers: The Economic Crisis in Light of Luke 16:1–9

A look at the current economic crisis through a Lukan parable.

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The “Righteous Rich” in the Old Testament

The Old Testament recognizes that riches can be gained through wickedness and oppression, but it also teaches and exemplifies that those to whom God grants more than ordinary wealth can and should make...

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Citizenship, Voting, and the Common Good

In this essay, Roy Barsness offers a Christian perspective on politics and citizenship; that of loving our neighbor as oneself.

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Put Your Money Where Your Faith Is: under the

Sandwiched somewhere between the Lord’s Prayer and the closing hymn comes the Sunday morning offering—a staple of Presbyterian worship. The organ plays or the choir sings while faithful churchgoers...

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A Pedagogy of Submission: Reeducating Ourselves to Embody Our Belief in a...

Nisha is two years old. She lives in Sonagacchi, one of the most notorious red-light districts in all of South Asia. The district, located in a neighborhood of Calcutta, India, is only two blocks long,...

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A Message to the Fine and Shabby: James’s Epistle on Poverty

In what is perhaps the most socially conscious ethical writing of the New Testament, the writer of James proclaims that faith without works is dead, that social justice is to be the signpost of our...

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The Subversion Will Not Be Televised: An Interview with Vinoth Ramachandra

The Other Journal (TOJ): Dr. Ramachandra, it is an honor to talk with you about your recent book Subverting Global Myths and about how your work might help us understand faithfulness in the current...

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Finding Our Own Calcutta: Mother Teresa and the Infinite God Dying of Love

When I went to Calcutta to work with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries for two months, I was forty-four and a three-year-old in Christ; she was eighty-six and had already experienced many deaths in...

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Politics, Virtues, and Struggle: An Interview with Cornel West

The renowned philosopher and social critic Cornel West has been faculty at Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Haverford, the University of Paris, and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Among his large...

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In Praise of Dishonest Managers: The Economic Crisis in Light of Luke 16:1–9

What Went Wrong? We are over a year into the current economic crisis, and it is still not clear what happened. Even as the same folks who did not see the meltdown coming are trying to convince us that...

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The “Righteous Rich” in the Old Testament

Much is written and preached about the problem of poverty from a biblical perspective, and much of what is written and preached acknowledges the fact that most poverty does not just happen—it is...

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Citizenship, Voting, and the Common Good

A political news junkie in 2008, I now find myself tuning out. I am done with the partisanship and vitriol. I am tired of sorting facts from lies. Perhaps I’ll just sit out this election. After all, I...

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