Why Progressive Christians Should Care About Abortion
by Rachel Held Evans I knew what abortion was before I knew where babies came from. Growing up in the evangelical subculture of the '80s and '90s, I was well versed in the language of the pro-life cause, as familiar with Roe...
PA March to DEcarcerate!
by Nicole Morgan From May 25th to June 3rd, Decarcerate PA will be “walking the walk” from Philadelphia to the state capital, Harrisburg, to demand that 2013 be the year of “A People’s Budget, Not a Prison Budget.” Decarcerate...
Weekly Round Up
by Sarah Withrow King Baffling to beautiful with some solid cultural analysis by a pretty funny red-head. Here’s this week’s high/lowlights, a little shorter than normal because we've got a staff meeting this afternoon and it's finals time....so...not a lot of time to troll the internet for the good stuff. But I think this is enough to chew on for a while: Guns surrendered in buy back events may end up right back on the street. Thanks, Arizona. (insert sarcastic thumbs up) We...
Marketplace Revolution
by Al Tizon “Your business can be your ministry, and your work can be worship.” That’s the motto at Partners Worldwide, a network of people called to business and passionate about ending poverty. Join them in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this June 6-7 for the 2013 Marketplace Revolution U.S. National Conference, where the primary audience will be business and professional people concerned about job creation anywhere in the 50 United States. The secondary audience: People called to business and transformation in their workplace or...
Amnesty? If Only!
by Rebecca Hall “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was ‘well timed’ in the...
Jeremy Lin on Basketball, Race, Faith
by Al Tizon Linsanity! There was a brief season last year when then-New York Knicks third-string point guard Jeremy Lin was a global superstar, as he came off the bench and almost singlehandedly won games the Knicks had no business winning....
G-Dog: A Documentary Film
by Kristyn Komarnicki If you read PRISM, you’ve heard of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the US. Jan Johnson’s article about the ministry, “Jobs Not Jails,” snagged a blue ribbon at the Evangelical Press Awards. A documentary about Homeboy founder Father Greg is being released this week that you won’t want to miss. Here’s the press release info: Since its inception in 1988, Homeboy Industries has become a safe haven for helping former gang members and previously incarcerated men and...
