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Challenge 2.0 airs on MeTV on Sunday Mornings at 7:30 AM. ‘Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’. So begins the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. But it is difficult to reconcile that promise with reality in this country, this year. In this edition of Challenge 2.0, ‘Terms…

Americans are expected to spend more than 700 billion dollars on Christmas gifts this year. That’s an average of 16 million dollars every minute. The sense of disquiet over the commercialized version of the Christian Holy Day, a season often beginning before Halloween, is not new. The Puritans cancelled Christmas for 22 years in Boston,…

Last week, we explored the growing dissatisfaction with corporate misbehavior. Some within the faith community are increasingly recognizing what legal scholars have long pointed out; that the legal consequences for unethical and even criminal behavior by corporations and corporate leaders are typically far less certain or severe than for the same actions by people. What…

In the 2010 ‘Citizens United’ case, the Supreme Court ruled that Corporations are ‘people’. But some legal scholars point out that the legal consequences for misbehavior by corporate ‘people’ are typically far less certain or severe than for such misbehavior by flesh and blood people. An increasing number of Americans are confronting such preferential treatment.…

Episode 3: Me Too: Next Steps for Faith Communities Cosby, Weinstein, Rose, Lauer and O’Reilly. Just a few of the ‘big names’ outed as sexual predators. The list has come from a range of industries and professions-including film, television, journalism, religion, law, medicine, literature and politics. If one reaction has been ‘surprise and dismay’, another…