And If So, What Difference Does It Make? Healthcare is a very good thing for governments to provide, whether or not it
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By Cynthia Rigby The following is an excerpt from the book by Cynthia Rigby, Promotion of Social Righteousness [Louisville: Witherspoon Press, 2010], 1-11, available from www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com. The article is republished here with permission from the author and Witherspoon Press.
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Aren’t Christian stakes simply justice stakes? Not entirely. Christian ethics, and mainly Reformed Protestant and Enlightenment versions of those, shaped the U.S. Constitution. They defined what goods government was to serve, what constituted legitimate authority, and how power was to be exercised; where government power ended and individual rights began,
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In March 1948, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr graced the cover of Time. His appearance came at the end of two decades in which Niebuhr had risen to cultural prominence not just as a religious thinker, but also as one of the country’s foremost political leaders. Mainline Protestantism was riding high, and
MoreThe argument of this issue, in short, is this: All though we might think of ecumenical as something separate and formal, we actually live it all the time. Perhaps it’s time our thinking caught up to our usual practice. The French playwright Moliere may in fact have best captured this
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The following prayer is reprinted with permission from the book Prayers for The New Social Awakening, ed. Christian Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty. O God, we pray for all those in recovery whose demons are kept at bay one day at a time; for those clean twenty-four hours and wondering if
MoreAnd If So, What Difference Does It Make? Healthcare is a very good thing for governments to provide, whether or not it is a human right, because it is certainly a basic human good and is necessary for human flourishing. The social provision of healthcare can be considered part of
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By Christian T. Iosso The Rev. Dr. Chris Iosso remembers justice and ecumenism advocate Eugene Carson Blake, former President of the NCC, General Secretary to the World Council of Churches, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church, co-author of the 1953 “Letter to Presbyterians” denouncing McCarthyism, and a man once
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By Cynthia Rigby The following is an excerpt from the book by Cynthia Rigby, Promotion of Social Righteousness [Louisville: Witherspoon Press, 2010], 1-11, available from www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com. The article is republished here with permission from the author and Witherspoon Press. Dr. Rigby first shows that social righteousness has a long
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A RESPONSE TO THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT November 1, 2011, by Editor Chris Iosso, who invites Christians into dialogue about the role the church should play in the Occupy Movement. A golden calf—that looks like the Wall Street bull statue—is carried through New York’s Zuccotti Park encampment by a bunch
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Check out our video on Vimeo: Toward a NEW Social Awakening, The Social Creed Or watch the video right here: [kaltura-widget uiconfid=”535″ entryid=”0_466vp691″ width=”400″ height=”330″ addpermission=”” editpermission=”” align=”center” /] A Social Creed for the 21st Century
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Check out our video: Toward a NEW Social Awakening, The Social Creed The Social Creed of the Churches, endorsed in 1908 by the Federal Council of Churches, was their pledge to work together for a better, fairer and more faithful United States. One hundred years ago, the explosion of
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