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At a time when the federal budget has become a national obsession and essential domestic aid programs are under attack, it might be easy to dismiss foreign aid as being beyond our means. However, [...]

Thanksgiving is a holiday long associated with food – too much food in some cases – but millions of Americans living with food insecurity are unable to mark the holiday with the traditional [...]

An estimated 11 million people will head into this holiday season unsure of their futures due to the unsettled status of immigration reform. Following a year defined by widespread activism [...]

Happy Hanukkah! Happy Thanksgiving! This weekend, tune in to State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast, for a discussion of how one professor thinks our public policies [...]

Happy Hanukkah and Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s what we’re serving up this weekend on State of Belief Radio. Still waiting for a place at the table. The frustrating lack of progress on [...]

  They’re looking for the same sense of community, they’re looking for the same cultural elements that they were raised to appreciate, but they’re looking for them without [...]

Headlines have said that we were defying the Church – that is not true. We were offering the liturgy and the ceremony and the welcome of the Church to fully include a gay couple into the [...]

Black Thursday? Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time of year when families spend time together, but more and more retail companies are asking their employees to work on “Turkey Day.” The lure of [...]

Atheist Churches on the Rise Atheist churches may seem like an oxymoron, but they’re popping up nationwide. Congregations of non-believers seeking moral direction outside of religion are growing [...]

Same-Gender Marriages in the United Methodist Church After defying the United Methodist Church’s ban on same-gender marriages, this week, the Rev. Frank Schaefer, a longtime pastor in Lebanon, [...]