Tag: Recession

  • “We cannot allow for our brothers and our sisters to be on the side of the road. Jesus tells the story about us caring about our neighbors. Politicians don’t care about us,” says Rev. Charles Williams II of Historic King Solomon Baptist Church. More

    February 21, 2014

  • “One of my goals is to get pastors and congregations to feel emboldened to ask questions about the economy,” says Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City. More

    November 8, 2013

  • Watch excerpts of interviews with people of faith who are supporting the Occupy Wall Street protests. More

    October 28, 2011

  • Watch excerpts from former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s June 3, 2011 speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Washington. More

    June 7, 2011

  • Watch more of our conversation with Cherie Harder about religion and politics in 2012. More

    June 3, 2011

  • “The most broadly based access to the developing world is through religious people,” says the former president of the World Bank, “and so it is a tragedy if they are not embraced in the overall development process.” More

    January 21, 2011

  • The painful awareness that those on the margin, for whom Hebrew and Christian scriptures declare God’s special affinity, could only peek through the cracks of the State of the Union address says something more about us than it does the president or the address itself. More

    January 28, 2010

  • The financial crisis is a moral crisis, says religious leader Jim Wallis, and repairing the economy will require a moral reawakening. More

    January 15, 2010

  • Some churches are struggling in these difficult economic times as they face layoffs, foreclosure, distress sales, and other signs of serious financial trouble. (Originally aired June 19, 2009) More

    December 4, 2009

  • Watch Candy Hill, senior vice president of Catholic Charities USA, discuss the growing problem of hunger in America. More

    November 25, 2009

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