Two months ago, we helped convene a group of 24 evangelical Christian leaders to launch an Evangelicals for Darfur campaign. Full-page ads ran in several national and many local newspapers around the country, along with radio ads. Articles about the campaign appeared in 167 publications. We urged President Bush to use his “personal leadership in…

After the tsunami devastated Southeast Asia two years ago, I wrote a commentary for Sojourners Jaunary 2005 issue, speculating on what aid for Muslim nations could accomplish: With polls demonstrating the mutual enmity between the U.S. and the Muslim populations, perhaps administration pragmatists got religion (the good news kind) and decided that Jesus’ Sermon on…

The latest news on Iraq, the White House, Iran, Palestine, India, health insurance, poverty, crime, and select editorials and op-eds.Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Iraq. Pentagon Cites Success Of Anti-U.S. Forces in Iraq – “The Pentagon said yesterday that violence in Iraq soared this fall to…

Colin Powell says we are “losing” the “civil war” in Iraq. In a Sunday morning interview with Bob Schieffer on CBS’s Face The Nation, the former General, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and George Bush’s first Secretary of State broke his silence and put himself at odds with his ex-boss. I watched it.…

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