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HUD recently presented their first ever Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, showing upwards of 3/4 of a million people are homeless in the United States. (more…) Read more

Time magazine’s Joe Klein has been under fire in the liberal blogosphere for deriding “left-wing extremists” without naming names — or, in the case of Atrios, naming names without providing evidence.  Early on in the brouhaha, Klein was challenged to back up his claims, and he responded by drawing up lists of some of the beliefs that he thinks constitute extremism on both the left and the right.   These lists contain a juicy contradiction on religion.  In laying out... Read more

Katie at Faith and Public Life made this argument quite well in her post today, so I’m not going to repeat a lot of her points.  But a quick summary of what has led to all the chatter about James Dobson is that he just launched another attack on Rich Cizik and other members of the Evangelical Climate Initiative, which includes such leftist pastors as Joel Hunter (brief head of the Christian Coalition), Leith Anderson (Pres of NAE), Jim Ball... Read more

The 2006 national election was a small victory for the voice of reason.  But unless you appeal with the passion of belief, you cannot speak to the hearts of people longing for deliverance. (more…) Read more

Nearly 16 million Americans are living in deep or severe poverty. (more…) Read more

Self-denial, fasting, prayer, baptism, first communion, Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs — all those things, while good, cannot get rid of a single sin. (more…) Read more

In The New Republic, Lawrence Kaplan says, "By focusing so much on the civil war in the capital, which the United States cannot win, the administration may wind up forfeiting the counterinsurgency war in the provinces, which it still can."   (more…) Read more

With the 2008 Presidential race already heating up, my Lenten reflections led me to ask a rather simple question: when will we finally permit a politics that's as imperfect as we are? (more…) Read more