From the Sunday after Easter to the 4th of July, I’ve published the Poverty, God, Politics series of webcasts and companion blog posts....

The Catholic bishops this week took a step toward denying communion to President Biden. John Carr’s insightful, 32-minute discussion of...

My experience as president of Bread for the World convinced me that faith-based legislative advocacy works. Bread and its members win...

Long-term polling data indicates that political participation among low-income and less educated voters has been consistently low for...

Galen Carey, Vice President of the National Association of Evangelicals, explains the Evangelical movement, its ministries among people...

This week’s webcast features Henry Brady, one of the nation’s foremost political scientists and dean of the Goldman School of Public...

This is an unusually personal post. Eight months after retiring from Bread for the World, I’m now teaching in Berkeley and, at the same...

U.S. policies have shifted more to the benefit of poor and near-poor people in President Biden’s first month than in any month in the...

Donald Trump consistently does what’s in his self-interest. We’ve come to know him and must expect that he will do everything he can to...

The nation is exhausted by COVID and now more deeply divided by President Trump’s shameless challenge to the election results. But in the...

I’m excited to share that I’ve been appointed a Joint Fellow by Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and the Church Divinity School...

I am grateful for the leadership of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in the early days of this dangerous post-election...

For many years I worked in a bipartisan way to pass legislation to reduce hunger. But I’m no longer the primary spokesperson for Bread...

My friend Devry Boughner Vorwerk focuses her new podcast on my “new venture” to connect politics, spirituality, and social justice. I...

Advocates on hunger and poverty issues won a surprising victory last week - a major allocation of funding for nutrition assistance. The...

For the last 30 years, I have worked with administrations, members of Congress, and citizens in both parties to secure help and...

“You cannot give up, and you cannot give in.” So said Congressman John Lewis, whose lifetime of prayerful struggle for racial equality we...

I’m starting this blog during my final months as president of Bread for the World and the Alliance to End Hunger. After my retirement, I...