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01/24/2006
The complete text of a speech by former Vice President Al Gore delivered at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on Monday, January 16, 2006. Joining Gore were a broad range of public policy leaders including conservative former Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia. (Bolding and italics have been added by the editor to facilitate scanning of key points).
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It's The Personality Organization, Stupid! by Frank R. Morris

01/24/2006
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Progressive Justice Principles

01/24/2006
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Politics with Heart - Spiritual Progressives

04/01/2006
Minnesota Women's Press, Vol 21, No 26, March 22-April 4, 2006,
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Liberals Call for Spiritual Values in Public Policy

05/28/2006
The Voice of America
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Religious Liberals Gain New Visibility - A Different List Of Moral Issues

05/28/2006
Washington Post, May 20, 2006, page A1
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The left finds its voice

06/25/2006
June 17, 2006 - StarTribune - Faith and Values section
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Poll Conducted for Aspen Ideas Festival Shows 'American Dream' Unreachable for Most Americans

08/09/2006
from The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado - July 6, 2006
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Spiritual Progressives conference is a union of hope

11/26/2006
A young, fast-growing network of interfaith liberals will gather next Saturday in Minneapolis
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

11/27/2006
"Poem for Women of South Africa" by Alice Walker
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For America's Sake

01/08/2007
by Bill Moyers
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Join The Parade For We The People

01/30/2007
by Thom Hartmann, published on Monday, January 29, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
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It's time to stop acting out of short-term self-interest and start building a better tomorrow.

02/04/2007
StarTribune - OpEd by John Foley - February 4, 2007, Page AA1
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The Real Patriots

02/04/2007
By Bob Herbert, Op-Ed Columnist,
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The Religious Right's Era Is Over

02/22/2007
By Jim Wallis in TIME magazine
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Discovering What Democracy Means by Bill Moyers

02/22/2007
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A New Vision: The Speech I Want the Democratic Nominee To Give by Theodore C. Sorensen

07/03/2007
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Renewing the Promise of America - a sermon

07/03/2007
by Phyllis Stenerson
delivered at First Universalist Church, Minneapolis, MN - July 1, 2007
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Renewing America's Promise - commentary by Phyllis Stenerson

07/03/2007
Minneapolis, MN - July 3, 2007
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Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's Statement on the Articles of Impeachment delivered July 25, 1974

07/25/2007
Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives, during the impeachment hearing of President Richard M. Nixon
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The Constitution - commentary, background and quotations

09/18/2007
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10/11/2007
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My Vision of a Compassionate Future by The Dalai Lama

11/10/2007
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Whatever Happened to "We the People"? by Thom Hartmann

11/26/2007
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The Land of Optimism Is in the Dumps, But Refuses to Accept How It Got There - from The Guardian, UK

11/26/2007
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US Income Gap Widens, Richest Share Hits Record

11/26/2007
by Karey Wutkowski, published on October 12, 2007 by Reuters
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We Need Candidates Who Are Really Religious by Sister Joan Chittister

11/26/2007
published on September 7, 2007 by National Catholic Reporter
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Quotations

11/28/2007
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12/01/2007
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Progressive Democrats of America

12/01/2007
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Network of Spiritual Progressives-Minnesota

12/01/2007
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Books - recommended reading

12/02/2007
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12/02/2007
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Network of Spiritual Progressives

12/02/2007
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Progressive Values - examples of ways in which progressive values can be expressed

12/02/2007
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A Spiritual Covenant With America

12/02/2007
from the Network of Spiritual Progressives
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No Freedom Without Religion?

12/07/2007
There's a gap in Mitt Romney's admirable call for tolerance.
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Politics of Race and Religion

12/07/2007
Moral Issues Leave Black Evangelicals Torn Between Parties
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Evangelical Democrat Stirs the Pot in Mississippi

12/07/2007
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The Evangelical Crackup

12/07/2007
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Conscience Voters

12/07/2007
by Carol V. Hamilton
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Faith in Public Life

12/07/2007
New Online Database Documents Resurgence of Progressive Faith Organizing
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The Religious Left is Left Out by the Commercial Media

12/07/2007
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The Aquarians and the Evangelicals

12/07/2007
How left-wing hippies and right-wing fundamentalists created a libertarian America.
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Democrats make religious push - Praying for Your Vote

12/07/2007
Democrats take advantage of voters' lapse in faith in the GOP
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In Europe and U.S., Nonbelievers Are Increasingly Vocal

12/07/2007
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See How They Love One Another

12/07/2007
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Going beyond God

12/07/2007
a interview with Karen Armstrong
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Thinking Internationally - Acting Locally

12/07/2007
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Romney backs faith, policy over doctrine

12/07/2007
By NEWS SERVICES, published in StarTribune
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Text of Mitt Romney's Dec. 6 speech

12/07/2007
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Romney's speech on his faith and politics, 2-6-08 plus eight perspectives

12/07/2007
Original text of Romney's speech and eight perspectives plus the text of John F. Kennedy's speech on religion
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Romney: Some Beliefs Are More Equal than Others

12/09/2007
by Juan Cole
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What Iowans Should Know About Mormons

12/09/2007
by Naomi Schaefer Riley
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Romney Seeks to Defuse Concerns Over Mormon Faith

12/09/2007
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Romney Speech Reflects Inaccurate Understanding Of Church-State Relations

12/09/2007
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
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Mitt Romney's call for tolerance praised, but will it appeal to a traditionally intolerant group?

12/09/2007
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He's a Mormon. He's a Christian. So?

12/09/2007
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John F. Kennedy's Speech on Religion - 1960

12/12/2007
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The Secret Library of Hope - 12 Books to Stiffen Your Resolve by Rebecca Solnit

12/19/2007
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American Values and Presidential Elections

12/19/2007
by Phyllis Stenerson
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After years spent injecting religion into US politics, right-wing pundits are afraid they may have gone too far

12/20/2007
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Archbishop of Canterbury blames mankind's greed for endangering the environment

12/27/2007
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The success of candidates depends at least as much on network dynamics as it does on the quality of the candidates

12/31/2007
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What can the next president do to revive a sense of common purpose?

12/31/2007
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Faith and Politics: Rules of the Game

12/31/2007
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Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama both say they can bring red and blue states together. But how?

01/05/2008
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Barack Obama's Victory Speech After Winning the Iowa Caucus

01/05/2008
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01/05/2008
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01/15/2008
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Change: Martin Luther King, Jr., British Petroleum and Precinct Caucuses

01/15/2008
A look at how change happens
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Presidential Politics Through Spiritual Eyes

01/15/2008
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
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Progressive Christians Respond to Neo-con Fundamentalism

01/15/2008
By Gary Vance
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In Obama we Trust: US elections 2008: Barack Obama represents a progressive religious tradition in America that may act as a counterweight to the religious right

01/15/2008
by Gordon Lynch
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Coloring Public Opinion?

01/15/2008
By Gregory Solman
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Totally Spent

02/13/2008
by Robert B. Reich, Op-Ed Contributor, New York Times, February 13, 2008
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When God Splits His Vote

02/13/2008
by Deepak Chopra
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Public Intellectuals, Inc. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

02/13/2008
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Interview with Jim Wallis, author of "The Great Awakening"

02/13/2008
by Rebecca Rosen Lum
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A More Perfect Union - Obama 3-18-08

03/19/2008
Barack Obama's speech on race in America - Philadelphia, PA - March 18, 2008
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Worldview and Framing - a synopsis

02/04/2005
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There is No Tomorrow by Bill Moyers

02/04/2005
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The American Creed by Rev. Forrest Church

02/04/2005
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God's Politics

02/06/2005
by Jim Wallis
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Unitarian Universalist Association

02/08/2005
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Bill of Rights

02/15/2005
The First 10 Amendments to the Constitution
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The Declaration of Independence

02/15/2005
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The Constitution of the United States with Amendments

02/15/2005
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United Nations Millennium Declaration

02/28/2005
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Democracy or Theocracy? Source materials and references

05/10/2005
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I Have a Dream - King - 8-28-63

03/19/2008
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Living on the Ice Shelf, Humanity's Melt Down - by Mike Davis

06/26/2008
reprinted from www.TomDispatch.com with introduction by Tom Englehardt
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Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck by Bill Moyers

06/26/2008
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The Philosophy Behind the Words by George Lakoff

08/26/2008
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Hate Talk Can Get People Killed by Phyllis Stenerson

09/01/2008
July 31, 2008
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Workers' Labor Day scorecard: Bad news on pay, unemployment, the minimum wage

09/01/2008
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Hard Times Hitting Students and Schools

09/01/2008
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Understanding Bushonomics: How We Got Into This Mess In the First Place

09/01/2008
by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, Ryan Powers, and Igor Volsky
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The Coming Activist Age

09/01/2008
by David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times, July 18, 2008
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Know-Nothing Politics

09/01/2008
by Paul Krugman, Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times, August 8, 2008
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Rhetoric and reality - New York Times, 9/05/08

09/10/2008
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The Real John McCain

09/10/2008
New York Times Editorial, September 5, 2008
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Does the Truth Matter Anymore? E. J. Dionne,

09/10/2008
Washington Post, September 10, 2008
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Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention by Jim Kuhnhenn

09/10/2008
Associated Press, September 3, 2008
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Commentaries by Phyllis Stenerson

09/11/2008
with links to full text
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Playing Fair With Kids by Phyllis Stenerson

09/11/2008
published on CommonDreams.org 10/12/07
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Does McCain Still Agree with Reagan that Government is the Problem? by Arianna Huffington

09/30/2008
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The Palin Choice and the Reality of the Political Mind by George Lakoff

09/30/2008
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Obama and the Palin Effect by Deepak Chopra

09/30/2008
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Fueling the Fire of Real Change by Chris Hedges

09/30/2008
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A Cure for Greed by Eduardo Porter

09/30/2008
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Main Street Before Wall Street by David Korten

09/30/2008
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The Power of Negative Thinking by Barbara Ehrenreich

09/30/2008
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Palin’s American Exception by Roger Cohen

09/30/2008
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Absence of Leadership

09/30/2008
New York Times Editorial
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Democracy Means We Must Hear From Leaders in Time of Crisis by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

09/30/2008
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Courage, Wisdom in an Age of Fear by James Carroll, Boston Globe, Oct. 20, 2008

10/21/2008
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Bill Moyers interviewing William Grieder

07/31/2008
July 18, 2008
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Guided by An Invisible Hand by Joseph Stiglitz

10/21/2008
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America's Foundational Documents

10/21/2008
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Ideology Takes a Breather, Maybe by Jared Bernstein, October 19, 2008, HuffingtonPost.com

10/21/2008
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Barack Obama for President, New York Times Editorial, October 24, 2008

10/24/2008
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A Matter of Life and Debt by Margaret Atwood

10/24/2008
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Redistributing Wealth To The Rich. The Progress Report

10/24/2008
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Obama and the War on Brains by Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times

11/23/2008
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Eight Years Is More Than Enough, New York Times Editorial

11/23/2008
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Pollsters Debate America's Political Realignment by Robert Kaiser, Washington Post

11/23/2008
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America has embraced the values of progress by Gordon Brown, The Guardian, UK

11/23/2008
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Coming Soon: The 21st Century by E. J. Dionne Jr.

01/01/2009
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Optimism We Can Believe In by Frank Cooper III

01/01/2009
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The Coming Capitalist Consensus by Walden Bello

01/01/2009
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Time to Reboot America by Thomas L. Friedman

01/01/2009
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New Poll Shows 63% Are Already Hurt by Downturn by Michael A. Fletcher and Jon Cohen

01/01/2009
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01/01/2009
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A New Year of Change by Phyllis Stenerson

01/02/2009
Progressive Values Newsletter January 1, 2009
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Inequality crisis bad for all of us

01/09/2009
– faith in government not gone, yet
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10 Reasons to be Hopeful about 2009, and 3 Reasons to be Terrified

01/09/2009
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A City Looks To Its Moral Compass in Lean Times

01/09/2009
Alexandria Hires an Ethicist To Help Decide Budget Cuts
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Obama And the Rise of Secular Spirituality

01/19/2009
by Deepak Chopra and Dave Stewart
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Magic and Realism by Roger Cohen

01/19/2009
New York Times, January 15, 2009
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Politics and religion: A closer walk

06/26/2008
by Jeff Strickler, reprinted from the Star Tribune, June 23, 2008
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One World Government? Globe may not be big enough. by Dana Milbank

11/12/2009
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Books - recommended reading

11/13/2009
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Poll - Conservative & Progressive Religious Activists Surveys

01/08/2010
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Emphasis Shifts for New Breed of Evangelicals by Michael Luo and Laurie Goodstein

01/04/2010
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In his slow decision-making, Obama goes with head, not gut by Joel Achenbach

01/04/2010
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Excerpts - Paideia

01/06/2010
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For Consumers, the Responsibility Revolution by Richard Stengel

11/25/2009
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The GOP according to KOS by Mark Silk

02/10/2010
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How to Get Our Democracy Back - If You Want Change, You Have to Change Congress by Lawrence Lessig

02/12/2010
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Obama Needs to Take His Inside Politics Outside by Albert R. Hunt

02/01/2010
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The Big Theories Underwriting Society Are Crashing All Around Us -- Are You Ready for a New World? by Terrence McNally

01/30/2010
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Excerpts - Reason

01/06/2010
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Education: From Condescension to Respect by Michael Roth

02/12/2010
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Share Is Liberal, Intellectual Condescension Really the Problem? by Glynn Wilson

02/13/2010
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What Does the Manhattan Declaration Really Mean? by Tobin Grant

01/04/2010
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The religious left - An old tradition for a new day. by Daniel McKanan

01/08/2010
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Obama’s Health-Care Speech: Hope Over Fear by Jim Wallis

11/02/2009
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Media Reform Needed to Preserve Democracy by Phyllis Stenerson

06/26/2008
National conference held in Minneapolis
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Media Reform Needed by Phylls Stenerson for Uptown Neighborhood News

09/11/2008
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Gloom, but Not Doom - NY Times Editorial

01/01/2009
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Senator John McCain - background information

08/18/2008
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A Nation Transformed By Women from the Center for American Progress

10/19/2009
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A Fair Shake for Those Who are Not Already Rich and Powerful by Bob Herbert

05/07/2009
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These days, people are disposable by Henry Greenspan

09/21/2009
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What Have We Done to Democracy? by Arundhati Roy

09/28/2009
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Screaming Joe Wilson: Newt Gingrich's Frankenstein by Lorelei Kelly

11/02/2009
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Making sense of the conservative worldview by Doug Muder

01/08/2010
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01/30/2010
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Telling the World a ‘Big Story’ -Conversation with Karen Armstrong by Laurie Patton

02/01/2010
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Excerpts - Worldview

01/06/2010
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Racist by Sonia Scherr

02/13/2010
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Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right by David Barstow

02/16/2010
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01/08/2010
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Dick Armey Is Back on the Attack by Michael Sokolove

01/02/2010
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The Tragedy Of Hope by Andrew Sullivan

01/05/2010
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Change I Can Believe In by David Brooks

11/03/2009
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Why fundamentalism will fail by Harvey Cox

11/12/2009
A seemingly unstoppable force is being undone from the inside
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Paranoia Strikes Deep by Paul Krugman

11/12/2009
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Viewing All Criticism of Obama Through a Right/Left Prism by Arianna Huffington

07/15/2008
published on July 14, 2008 by the Huffington Post
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Make federal agency performance an issue

06/26/2008
Editorial in StarTribune, June 22, 2008
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Democracy or Theocracy?

05/18/2005
Progressive Thoughts e-newsletter of May 9, 2005
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail - King - 4-16-63

03/19/2008
Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. - April 16, 1963
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The New Untouchables by Thomas Friedman

10/22/2009
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Excerpts - Faith and Values

01/06/2010
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The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell By Andy Serwer

12/08/2009
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Cornel West on Truth and Paideia

11/16/2009
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Who's afraid of freedom and tolerance? Why are fundamentalists so frightened by liberal family values? A look at competing worldviews by Doug Muder

01/08/2010
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Unitarian Universalist and related perspectives

02/15/2010
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What fuels the grass-roots rage by E.J. Dionne Jr.

02/12/2010
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Where's The Movement? by George Lakoff

02/01/2010
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The Futurist Weighs In, Part Two by Sara Robinson

02/12/2010
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Ironic Provincialism by Paul Rasor

01/08/2010
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How We Talk About the Environment Has Everything to Do with Whether We'll Save It by George Lakoff

11/16/2009
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The Protocol Society by David Brooks

01/04/2010
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Surviving the Media Circus, Without Becoming the Clown

11/01/2009
by Barry Levinson
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The Self-Correcting Presidency by Ross Douthat

11/02/2009
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Strategy for the Next American President

07/31/2008
World Politics Review, July 24, 2008
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Caritas in Veritate: Spiritual Trumps Secular in Encyclical

07/24/2009
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The PolicySpeak Disaster for Health Care by George Lakoff

09/05/2009
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Happy Birthday, America! and many more?

07/02/2008
by Phyllis Stenerson
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Charter for Compassion to unify, inspire and bring compassion back into the hearts of society update 1-7-10

12/06/2008
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A Long Way Down, New York Times editorial

09/21/2009
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What do neocons have to do with Obama? by Jacob Bronsther

10/28/2009
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Excerpts - Vision

01/06/2010
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The Values Question by David Brooks

01/04/2010
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Bill Moyers: a thoughtful voice amid the din by Neal Gabler

01/04/2010
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Without a movement, progressives can't aid Obama's agenda by Harold Meyerson

01/09/2010
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The Source of Corporate Power by Robert C. Koehler

02/01/2010
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Global economic crisis also values crisis - Davos poll - by Tom Henegan, Religion Editor

02/01/2010
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Excerpts - Transformation

01/07/2010
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How Christian Were the Founders? by Russell Shorto

02/12/2010
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The Futurist Weighs In, Part 1 by Sara Robinson

02/12/2010
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Summary - America

02/15/2010
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UF study recasts political ‘God gap’ theory with details of a religious left

01/10/2010
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Excerpts - Our World

01/06/2010
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Changing the World by Bob Herbert

10/28/2009
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No longer conservative about his religion by Dana Milbank (re Gingrich)

11/12/2009
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07/11/2008
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Barack Obama's Speech on Final Primary Night, June 3, 2008, in St. Paul, MN

06/26/2008
(As Prepared for Delivery, from Obama web site)
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Making Choices - A Spiritual Skill

07/31/2008
by Sister Joan Chittister, July 28, 2008
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A New Religious America - How a "Christian Country" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation by Diana L. Eck

05/07/2009
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Building Global Justice: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For by Jim Wallis

11/12/2009
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A Date With Scarcity by David Brooks

11/03/2009
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A courageous call for civility by E.J. Dionne Jr.

12/08/2009
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Republican Death Trip by Paul Krugman

11/02/2009
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The Behavioral Revolution by David Brooks

11/02/2009
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Excerpts - Economic Justice

01/06/2010
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11/19/2009
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Excerpts - Progressive Movement

01/10/2010
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Summary - America - Government

Exit Mr. Kaine - Virginia's 70th governor and the politics of decency

01/10/2010
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02/03/2010
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02/15/2010
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Excerpts - Campaign Finance and Lobbying

02/12/2010
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If you think 2009 was fun, just wait until '10 heats up by Dick Polman

01/10/2010
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Mr. President, It's Time to Fight by Bill Moyers

11/02/2009
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Progressive Values Dominant-- But Need to Rebuild Trust in Effectiveness of Government Action by Julie Berro

11/02/2009
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Challenging the Crowd in Whispers, Not Shouts by Robert J. Shiller

11/02/2009
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Meltdown: Images of What We Lose When the Glaciers Disappear by Helena Christensen

12/08/2009
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Glenn Beck's Hotline to Nowhere by Thomas Frank

11/06/2009
The White House has no obligation to correct willful ignorance.
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The Passion of the Right by Charles M. Blow

11/14/2009
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Citoyen Consumer

06/26/2008
Disengagement, disempowerment and corporate media bias by Rich Broderick
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Happy Days are Here Again! lyrics and link to music

01/20/2009
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Another Country by Mark Mellman, New York Times, 9-17-08

10/21/2008
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Why We Need New Ways of Thinking by Barry Boyce

07/31/2008
from the Shambhala Sun, September 2008
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Network of Spiritual Progressives - 2006

05/07/2009
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How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party by Sean Wilentz

11/12/2009
A president driven by ideology. A Congress rife with corruption. A political party hellbent on a "permanent majority." A leading scholar examines the radicals who hijacked the GOP — and wrecked the longest conservative ascendancy in American history
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