Category Torture

The drone attacks must stop

3 January 2013 Peacemaking, Top Stories, Torture  No comments

Since I wrote the post on remembering the fallen children back ages ago on Christmas Eve 2012, wherein drone attacks on Pakistan were at 303, we've now reached 306. And tack on several more in Yemen.

This needs to stop. These drone attacks

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Dick Cheney and Gitmo cartoon

31 August 2011 Torture  One comment

Now this takes me back. Of course, it still hasn't been dealt with, and there are Christians that still either support torture or redefine torture...but it still takes me back.

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Keeping the death chamber windows open

30 June 2009 Torture  No comments

This letter from Sister Helen Prejean is positively stellar. Writing to the California Department of Corrections on a recent proposal, she made wonderfully and graphically clear how depraved we can be as humans. She urged California to
KEEP

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Christians: take a stand! Torture must stop!

30 June 2009 Torture  No comments

Mohammed Jawad was captured in Kabul and given over to the US forces in 2003. At the time he was around 14 years young. And this is what the US has done to him:
What is not in dispute is that he was no older than an adolescent, and that since his

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Taking notice of torture…again

22 June 2009 Torture  2 comments

Clever. But, more importantly, will Christians who currently support either terror or harsh interrogation, especially those who do not consider something like waterboarding torture, take a minute and reflect?

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Vivian’s Opinion on Torture

4 June 2009 Torture  3 comments

As I recently mentioned, Tim Vivian wrote a short follow up to an opinion piece he wrote on 10 May. The reason I had a hard time finding the original piece was because, as it turns out, the title was not properly input. The title should be "Should a

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A Simple Word on Torture

3 June 2009 Torture  5 comments

On 10 May, Tim Vivian, a former professor of mine (Christian Mysticism), a man who also tutored me in Greek for a stint (short but insanely effective), an Episcopal priest, and author/editor of a good number of books on early Christian monastics,

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