We could ask ourselves "What changes in the direction of this country are necessary if it really is gonna make a claim to be a democracy?" We're not asking it to be a theocracy. A democracy. That's what it's about. Politically, that's what it's about.
Joseph C. Hough, President of the Faculty and William E. Dodge Professor of Social Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary, is making some noise about the growing economic divide in America, even suggesting that members of the "Abrahamic traditions" — Jews, Muslims, and Christians — should unite in acts of civil, non-violent disobedience. And God bless him for it. On a day of horrible news from Iraq, Bill Moyer's interview with Hough comes as welcomed relief.
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