Tag: Economy
“We’re looking at long-term changes to make something sustainable here,” says World Vision’s Mary Kate MacIssac. Watch more interviews about the recovery effort and more video of three different church services on a recent Sunday morning in Port-au-Prince. More
Look back at excerpts from our conversations with reporters over the past 10 years about religion and its changing role in our world.
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Watch our annual reporters roundtable on the most important religion and ethics news of the past year. More
The Republican Party made significant gains with Catholic voters as well as white Protestants. Did the Democrats give up on religious outreach? More
“President Obama needed to provide a more affirmative vision of successes in Iraq, a vision that casts it as a victory over totalitarianism, which has always been a central aspect of America’s civilizing mission.” More
“People are not poor because they have weak characters,” says human services professor Bill Oswald. “They’re poor for lots of different reasons, but my experience is they’re the hardest working people I know.” More
Sixteen years after a mostly peaceful transition and elections that brought Nelson Mandela to power, the verdict on South Africa is decidedly mixed. More
Watch excerpts from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s recent remarks at Trinity Church Wall Street on building an ethical economy. Video courtesy of of Trinity Wall Street.
Listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address, one underlying theme made a big impression: the problem of pluralism and how to deal with competing worldviews, ideologies, values, and political beliefs in the same country. It is clear that … More
“It is doubly ironic that the core of the first State of the Union address from a black president would contain such a profoundly affirmative nod in the direction of good old US economic imperialism…first, the history of slavery and racism is definitely connected to such classic American economic hubris, and, second, he made this particular case so clearly dependent on the rhetoric of Martin Luther King.” More
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