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 THE WINDOW OPEN during the administration of the poisonous chemicals and as the person is dying as [...]
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 capture he has [...]
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?
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 ‘Christian nation’ renounce torture? Of course.” [...]
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, wrote an opinion piece for our local paper entitled “Should a ‘Christian nation’ [...]
