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“As Americans we have a rich history of both heroes and villains. If we cultivate the compassionate understanding that even the ‘worst’ people are undoubtedly doing the best that they know, and that this ‘knowing’ is often seized by ignorance, suffering, and fear, we can learn from them all.” - Alice Walker from, We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

"And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that on the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God." - Philippians 1:9-11

U.N.'S Ban Urges Syria To Implement Peace Plan — BRICS Flay West Over IMF Reform, Monetary Policy — CEO Pay Rises Again In 2011, While Workers Struggle To Find Work — Weather Runs Hot And Cold, So Scientists Look To The Ice — Churches Step Up Environmental Activism — Permanent War Sidewalk Sale — Recovery, Part III: Why These 20 Cities Are Leading The New Economy — How Katy Butler, ‘Bully’ Documentary’s Teen Crusader, Was Bullied — Pakistani Acid Attack Victim Commits Suicide Because ‘There Was No Justice Available To Her’ — Japan Hangs Three Prisoners After 18-Month Stay Of Executions — Jim Yong Kim: 'We Can Eradicate Global Poverty In Our Lifetimes — 'Obama And Romney Open Fire On Foreign Policy

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven... a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace." - Ecclesiastes 3:1, 5-8

Trayvon Martin's slaying has ignited a national discussion on race and privilege.

Many of us recognize that Trayvon’s untimely death is not an isolated incident.

Racial profiling. Discrimination. Enmity. Suspicion. Intimidation. Fear. Hate.

For far too many Americans, these are everyday realities. 

As Christians, we are called to fight injustice and work to heal the broken systems — and broken relationships — of the world. We act, with Jesus Christ, to bring about reconciliations — between people, people groups, communities; within (and between) organizations, institutions, and social systems.

How Faith Shapes The Electoral Map — Where Are The Normal Christians? — Republicans Craft Watered-Down Version Of DREAM Act — U.S. And Pakistan Take Step To Mend Relations — Up To 7,000 Congolese Refugees Flee Into Uganda — The Rich Are Different; They Get Richer (OPINION) — No New Coal Plants! Great, But What About the Old Ones? — Tebow, A Careful Evangelical — Meet The Workers Who Pick A Third Of The Tomatoes In U.S. Supermarkets — Afghanistan’s War On Women Detailed In New Human Rights Watch Report — Is October Baby’s Pro-Life Message Misunderstood? — An Evangelical Voice For Trayvon — Documents Reveal FBI Spied On Peaceful Muslims — A Slow-Books Manifesto

“It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up to, nothing to prove, and nothing to protect. Such freedom is my best description of Christian maturity, because once you know that your “I” is great and one with God, you can ironically be quite content with a small and ordinary “I.” No grandstanding is necessary. Any question of your own importance or dignity has already been resolved once and for all and forever.” - Richard Rohr

"Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Surely we do not need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we? You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all; and you show that you are a letter of Christ, prepared by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." - 2 Corinthians 3:1-3

Have We Evolved To Be Religious? – Officials: White House Offers To Curtail Drones – Politicians Giving Religion A Bad Name (OPINION) – Across Africa, Steady Steps Toward Democracy – Japan Goes Off Script At Nuclear Summit To Slam North Korea – Michigan Governor Sees Hope For A Deal With Detroit – Trayvon Martin’s Death Galvanizes The Nation For Social Justice – In Bangladesh, A Battle Between Farmers And Climate Change – Gray Nation: The Very Real Economic Dangers Of An Aging America – Capital Punishment: U.S. Ranks 5th On Global Execution Scale, Amnesty International Reports – Justice For Trayvon Martin: Where Are Our White Faith Leaders? (OPINION) – Jim Yong Kim: Obsession With Corporate Profits 'Worsened The Lives Of Millions'