Taking the House floor to demand an investigation of the Foley matter was a true act of courage. This is the type of leadership that the U.S. so desperately needs. People that are willing to stand up for what is right, and not just act as a voice for the multi-billion dollar industries. (more…) Read more
Have we really come to this?! Has America really decided to sell its soul for "security?!" (more…) Read more
I believe that the issue of Immigration must be looked at as a complex set of interrelated problems. First, it is a basic question of humanitarianism. Every parent has the right and duty to provide for their children. The traditional family is the basic unit for the whole human society- No State can make laws that prevent parents from being able to provide for their children, and no border will be respected if crossing that border means feeding your child,... Read more
Reading about the bloody rivalry between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, I struggle for a common point of reference. Watching friends and relatives dragged dead through the streets, dozens assassinated point blank at impromptu checkpoints, holy shrines bombed. Not an experience Americans can relate to. But imagine being Afghan, or Iraqi, imagine all of that right here at home. America as a poorer, smaller nation, with powerful neighbors. We’d possess one or two exportable natural resources, and be quite dependent... Read more
My friend and colleague David Gushee wrote this powerful piece on torture earlier this year. It is great on its own merits but it also illustrates yet again that not all Evangelicals mindlessly follow the President. Read more
It is not the idols of others that we need to be worried about. It is our own tendency to make idols of finite things because we can’t face what we suspect a living God demands of us. We’re scared and so we pin our hopes on violence, hoping to scare the demons away. (more…) Read more
The Crucifixion is not a model for justice. (more…) Read more
Well, that's settled. We all agree torture is unequivocally evil. Yet we're faced with the imminent prospect of its legalization. What are we going to do about it? (more…) Read more
"With the Bush administration seeking to redefine the Geneva Conventions so some forms of torture are legally permitted, what is a Christian view of the issue?" T.R., New York City (more…) Read more
"With the Bush administration seeking to redefine the Geneva Conventions so some forms of torture are legally permitted, what is a Christian view of the issue?" T.R., New York City (more…) Read more
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