A good word from Melanie Weldon-Soiset from God’s Politics on the abhorrent practice of the death penalty. I’ve dropped in a wonderful statement below, but have a read of the original. The death penalty also denies the transformative power of the gospel. If we as Christians believe that the Holy Spirit can restore even the worst [...]
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 well [...]
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’ [...]
