Today on Sojourner Truth:
Accounting fraud in the Pentagon. Do we really know what the budget of the Pentagon is? Why is it that at least $21 trillion dollars of Pentagon financial transactions between 1998 and 2015 cant be traced? We speak with investigative journalist Dave Lindorff, who has exposed this financial fraud.
For our weekly Earth Watch, a major struggle is underway against the Utah Inland Port Authority. What impact will this project have on our planet, which is already at a tipping point in terms of pollution and other environmental devastation?
Is there a crisis involving the meaning of Christianity in todays churches? Eighty percent of Christian Evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in 2016, despite his views on immigrants, women and people of color. Why is his loyal Evangelical base claiming he has been touched by the hand of God? What role is the extreme right playing in Christianity? How is the liberal church, those who try to adhere to the teachings of Christ, concerned with the least of these responding? We discuss the reality of the differences between a liberation theology approach and right-wing religious fundamentalism. Our guests are the Rev. Janet McKeithen, Minister of the Church in Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California, and Father Michael Sniffen, Dean of the Cathedral of Long Island for the Episcopal Church.
