Yes, It’s About the White Supremacy
In this case, the first and maybe most lasting images we got cast the “rioters” as confederate flag-wavers, young men in ridiculous costumes, role-playing nutjobs who are easy to dismiss. But it is...
View ArticleWords for Those Feeling Disinherited
Trump’s anti-other rhetoric has had the effect of making hatred acceptable. He has created convenient scapegoats to blame for society’s ills: e.g., people of color, Muslims, immigrants. It’s not...
View ArticleWho Speaks for the Church? And Which Church?
We are still not willing to address with brutal honesty how gravely the church, our church, has erred. In each of the incidents that got me thinking about this, the theme of abuse was central--and the...
View ArticleWe Need to Be Honest When We Talk about Abortion
Our entire conversation about abortion and life ethics needs to change from a culture-war melee to a serious conversation in which we take cognizance of all the difficult and intersecting moral...
View ArticlePeople are in Therapy to Recover from Religion – We Need to Ask Why
Religion ought to be, not a bulwark for oppressive powers, but a solace for the oppressed. It certainly should not be traumatizing wounded people further.
View ArticleRush Limbaugh Would Never Have Succeeded In an Ethical Society
Right-minded folks should never have responded to slurs directed against AIDS sufferers, non-white children, and the disabled with anything other than disgust and horror.
View ArticleHow Has the Pandemic Changed Us? Has It Changed Us Enough?
Unfortunately, I fear that as a collective society the pandemic has not sufficiently awakened us to how cruel and unsustainable our system is, even if it has shone a spotlight on how morally frail we...
View ArticleCatholics Are De-Toxing From their Experiences With Traumatic Religion. How...
Do you feel that the work people are doing to recover from religious trauma is an attack on you because you enjoy your religion just fine, or have simply decided that not enjoying it is your duty? Do...
View ArticleFour Takeaways from Oprah’s Interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
People are inclined to defend institutions rather than persons, especially when the institution is long-lived, powerful, and beloved--such as, say, the British monarchy, or the Roman Catholic Church....
View ArticleImmigrants: They Need Us, and We Need Them
They come because most often they and their families are extremely poor, and they cannot find jobs in their native countries that pay a living wage. And that the U.S. has many more low-skilled jobs...
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