It is a strange text, but then, there are many in the Hebrew Bible's first entry. Genesis, or "beginnings," seeks to introduce us to some of the first people on earth. Reading from my new copy of The Poverty and Justice Bible , I came across it all marked up in bright orange: Lamech said, "I'll name...

So, I'm wondering today where comprehensive immigration reform falls out on president-elect Obama's legislative agenda? No doubt, the current economic crisis will affect priorities. But then, the subject managing immigrant labor surely will play some role in any future economic recovery, at least I ...

The connection between faith and spirituality and the real world of work and justice is a hard one to negotiate for lots of Christian people. While there have always been voices of dissent to the contrary, the tendency among many evangelicals is to keep these two worlds completely separate. For thes...

The phone woke me up at about 11:15 p.m. on Thursday night. The voice on the other end was a young man who works at the independent living center where my mom resides. He calmly identified himself—I recognized his very kind and reassuring voice, “Miss Mildred fell and she called for our help,�...