Wednesday, August 19th, 2009


The soul of America is sick because our health insurance industry is sick. The creation of a better health care system that guarantees full access to affordable quality health care for every American family, all of God’s children in this country, would be the moral achievement that could repair, and even heal, our damaged national soul.

Sojourners president Jim Wallis in the Washington Post

The Millennium Development Goals give a concrete image of the reign of God. They give benchmarks of shalom, and metrics, which is not something the church does well or often.

–Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefforts-Schori in an interview with the Corvallis (Oregon) Gazette-Times

(Via T19.)

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