photo © 2008 Steve Voght | more info (via: Wylio)Thirty turkeys per minute. Airport scanners. Hogwarts. Here’s a little round up of links from around the web you may have missed this week:

• Workers in turkey plants handle as many as 30 turkeys…

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photo © 2010 Mel Rowling | more info (via: Wylio) Posting an unpopular position in a blog post online can be a bone jarring hit to your ego. Many people will come out of the woodwork to claim you have brain damage. Such was…

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The effects of climate change — coastal flooding, stronger storms, spreading vector-borne diseases like malaria, and changes in rainfall patterns — are already taking their toll on marginalized people from Pakistan, to Malawi, to New Orleans. And while efforts must…

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In my Culture Watch piece in the December issue of Sojourners, I suggest a few things that the currently popular green and frugal movements can learn from the writers who contributed to Living More with Less, written by Doris Janzen Longacre…

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[Editors’ Note: In November, Sojourners will examine the intersection of food, faith, and farmworker justice. Leading up to Thanksgiving, we will feature posts from contributing bloggers about where our food comes from, what affect this process has on agricultural workers, and…

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There has been a lot of talk about deficits lately. This is for good reasons. Our personal and national relationship to debt is indeed a moral issue. Leaving our children to pay the bills for excessive spending cannot be justified.…

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Now, let me see if I have this right. Real men kill, maim, and inflict destruction.  Saving lives and rescuing those in harm’s way is, well, feminine. Well, that’s the take away from this blog piece by Bryan Fischer of the…

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In his December 2009 speech on Afghanistan, President Obama announced that he was sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, but that

… these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow…

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You might think that those who spent their campaigns telling their constituents that they would work to appeal “Obamacare” — just another government entitlement –  would either think that health care isn’t important, or that it’s okay for people to be…

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Seeking justice for the oppressed. Working to end the connection of child slavery to chocolate. Helping heal a devastated Haiti. Mobilizing young people to respond to a story of redemption by imaginatively working to build a better world. I think…

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photo © 2006 D. Sharon Pruitt | more info (via: Wylio)I have been an international human rights activist and lobbyist for 31 years in Washington. There have been times when issues I cared about and worked hard on simply didn’t bear…

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Well, it’s parable day again boys and girls. Parables are like Jesus’ subversive little stories of an alternate universe. This alternate universe is comprised not of alternate things but of ordinary things: coins and yeast and wheat and sons and…

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