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EVERYTHING WAS going swimmingly on the panel. The subject was politics and faith, and I was on stage with two clergymen with progressive spiritual leanings, and a moderator who is liberal and Catholic. We were having a discussion with the audience of 1,300 people in Washington about many of the social justice topics on which we agree — the immorality of the federal budget, the wrongness of the president's war in Iraq. Then an older man came to the mike and raised the issue of abortion, and everyone just lost his or her mind. Or, at any rate, I did....

Published: March 15, 2007 Bongos, Dancers, and Father-Mother GodRichard Rohr’s Mass at the Los Angeles Religious Education CongressAt the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress on Saturday evening, March 3, Franciscan Father Richard Rohr celebrated a “general liturgy” in a ballroom at the Anaheim Convention Center. Father Rohr is a founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a Congress presenter. The processional hymn was “Christ Be Our Light,” accompanied by bongo drums. Liturgical dancers carried large, flowing banners down each of the aisles in the ballroom. Reaching the front of the ballroom, the dancers stood...

You are invited to take part in a unique and important event! Three prophetic speakers, Jim Wallis, Anne Lamott, and Richard Rohr, will be together for the first time in Washington, D.C., Jan. 14-16, 2006,for a conference titled Politics and Spirituality: Seeking a Public Integrity. This is an opportunity not to be missed! The country is hungry to replace a politics of blame and fear with a politics of solutions and hope. What better time to explore the vital connection between politics and spirituality than now? Come hear these nationally renowned speakers and authors dialogue on the critical topics of...