{"id":280,"date":"2008-11-12T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T08:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/11\/social-justice-challenges-in-t.html"},"modified":"2008-11-12T08:36:11","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T08:36:11","slug":"social-justice-challenges-in-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/11\/social-justice-challenges-in-t.html","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Challenges in the Years to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 16px\">Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/blog\/godspolitics\/\">Sojouners<\/a> put together this great list of letters:<\/span><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in;margin-bottom: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/blog\/godspolitics\/?p=3678\">&#8220;Obama&#8217;s Harmony of Intellect and Intuition,&#8221;<\/a><b>\u00a0by Bono,\u00a0<\/b>Lead singer of U2 and co-founder of The ONE Campaign.<b><\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/blog\/godspolitics\/?p=3639\">&#8220;A Prayer for a New President and a New America&#8221;<\/a><b>\u00a0by Shane Claiborne,\u00a0<\/b>A Red Letter Christian and a founding partner of The Simple Way community, a radical faith community that lives among and serves the homeless in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. 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