The Silence of the Messiah—Mark 1:29-39 (J. Leavitt Pearl)
Sometimes effective resistance necessitates speech or decisive direct action. Yet sometimes resistance also demands a tactical silence.
Read MoreSometimes effective resistance necessitates speech or decisive direct action. Yet sometimes resistance also demands a tactical silence.
Read MoreOn Thursday, the Trump White House made public its proposal for an immigration deal. The proposal has four main components. First, the plan would provide legal status, and eventually citizenship, not only to the approximately 690,000 individuals currently protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but to […]
Read MoreIn embarrassing and politically illuminating fashion, various cities across the United States are promising to fix a litany of chronic civic problems that plague their respective cities—from public transportation to affordable housing to public education—in an attempt to land Amazon’s second headquarters. In some circles this news might be welcomed as […]
Read MoreRecently activists used firebombs at multiple church’s in Chile to protest a visit by Pope Francis. No one was hurt. Pamphlets left at the scenes stated that the bombings were to signal ongoing corruption within the church’s treatment of sexually abusive clergy and indigenous struggles over environmental destruction in the […]
Read MoreOne of the most striking features of Jesus’s teaching and practice was its authority, which both liberated and bound his hearers. Does the Church dare to speak with authority today?
Read MoreA twitter rant by Patrick L. Tomlinson last fall on the moral status of embryos has evoked a significant amount of discourse on social media and even from some venerable scholars. Robert P. George and Christopher O. Tollefson found the internet kerfuffle worthy of response. The debate is a case of academic […]
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