Cathleen Falsani

Cathleen Falsani

Cathleen Falsani is the Web Editor and Director of New Media for Sojourners. She is a religion journalist and columnist, specializing in the intersection of faith and culture. She is author of the critically acclaimed The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People, Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace. Cathleen and her son live in Laguna Beach, CA.

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What Americans Think About U.S. Foreign Aid Might Surprise You

What Americans Think About U.S. Foreign Aid Might Surprise You

In an OpEd that appeared on POLITICO last Monday, Mike Huckabee, the former Republican governor of Arkansas, and Blanche Lincoln, the former Democratic senator from Arkansas — who together co-chair ONE Vote 2012, a non-partisan campaign to make global health and extreme poverty foreign policy priorities in the 2012 presidential election, wrote about the importance

Ethiopia: How foreign aid has helped a generation

Ethiopia: How foreign aid has helped a generation

You know the images you have in your mind of Ethiopia from 27 years ago? The ones from the nightly news reports on TV about the famine in the Horn of Africa as the death toll and horror stories grew. Scorched, cracked earth. The carcasses of emaciated, dead cattle lying in the baking sun. Hundreds

Ethiopian Orthodoxy, Tewahedo, and ‘Being Made One’

ONE Moms blogger Cathleen Falsani traveled to Ethiopia with ONE this October. This sound clip, originally posted on CathleenFalsani.com, is part of our ongoing coverage of the trip. LAKE TANA, Ethiopia — Spirituality imbues every corner of Ethiopian culture, from its music and dance, to its artwork and even its unrivaled rich-as-the-earth coffee. Photo caption:

Ethiopia: I love the sound of Addis in the morning

ONE Moms blogger Cathleen Falsani traveled to Ethiopia with ONE this October. This sound clip, originally posted on CathleenFalsani.com, is part of our ongoing coverage of the trip.

Ethiopia: The Face of God

Ethiopia: The Face of God

ONE Moms blogger Cathleen Falsani is traveling in Ethiopia with ONE this October. This piece, originally published on Sojourners, is part of our ongoing coverage of the trip. Photo caption: A girl from the Mary Joy organization in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Cathleen Falsani for Sojourners. BAHIR DAR, Ethiopia — When I posted the

Ethiopia: Motherhood is powerful, precious

Ethiopia: Motherhood is powerful, precious

ONE Moms blogger Cathleen Falsani is traveling in Ethiopia with ONE this October. This piece, originally published on Sojourners, is part of our ongoing coverage of the trip. Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. ~

Ethiopia: God is even bigger than we think

Ethiopia: God is even bigger than we think

In 2007, I boarded a plane bound for Africa for the first time. That trip took me to Kenya, Tanzania, the island of Zanzibar, and Malawi. And that trip changed me — heart, mind, soul — forever transforming my family and my world. Today, five years almost to the day since I flew to Nairobi

April 25 is World Malaria Day

Sunday, April 25 is World Malaria Day. And I hope you’ll check out what ONE is doing to inspire action and find out how you can include your faith community here. Malaria has touched my family in a dramatic way. It almost killed my son Vasco. When I first met Vasco three years ago, he

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