Micah Tillman

[pt. 1 & pt. 2]
From the Compassion Forum, last Sunday, at a college in a small town in Pennsylvania:
CLINTON: [T]he incredible demands that God places on us and that the prophets ask of us, and that Christ called us to respond to on behalf of the poor are unavoidable.
And it’s always been curious to me [...]

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[pt. 1 is here]
From the Compassion Forum, last Sunday, at a college in a small town in Pennsylvania:
CLINTON: So maybe . . . this impoverishment of body and soul is what we are expected to be spending our time responding to, and so few of us do.
Even those who are doing wonderful work [...]

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From the Compassion Forum, last Sunday, at a college in a small town in Pennsylvania:
CLINTON: . . . [W]hat that means to me is that in the face of suffering, there is no doubt in my mind that God calls us to respond. . . .
. . . [I]n my Judeo-Christian faith tradition . . [...]

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I’ll have some things to say about the Compassion Forum soon, but for the moment I’d like to talk about something which the Forum got me thinking about.
There are two ideas — or myths — with which many people function. They are so interconnected that it’s really difficult to separate them. But I think they [...]

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The Wife and I just returned from CUA’s campus, where we were doing some final tax printing/mailing, and it’s fascinating to see the preparations for the Pope’s arrival. CUA is a pontifical institution (which means, unlike all the other Catholic universities in America, we [whoever "we" are] answer directly to the Vatican), so it’s an [...]

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My reaction to this is . . . I don’t know:
Clinton and Obama, in back-to-back interviews, will field questions from CNN’s Campbell Brown and Newsweek’s Jon Meacham as well as prominent members from the faith community. The Compassion Forum, sponsored by Faith in Public Life, will air at 8 p.m. ET on April 13.
The forum [...]

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