Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Bishops and the Flat Earth: Denying the Poverty-Abortion Link

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Do the U.S. Catholic bishops really care about abortion as the overarching moral issue of our time? I’m beginning to wonder. To be more sp...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

When Master and Slave Reverse: The Gay Struggle for Human Rights

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I have never been entirely sure that I understand Nietzsche’s concept of the transvaluation of values. I know that he aims the idea at Chr...

Weeping in Gethsemane: American Catholic Leaders and Obama's Election

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Andrea Mantegna, "Agony in the Garden" Because I’m an historian by training—an historian of Christian theology—I try to im...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Corporate Greed and American Higher Education: More Signs of Leadership Failure

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Troubling news today about the growing disconnect between the values American higher education actually practices in its allocation of salar...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

A Table with Room for All: Celebrating Steps to Racial Inclusion

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I awoke in the night with the picture at the head of this posting in my mind. It’s a picture taken from the first dinner the president-elec...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Rally Against Proposition 8: A Report from Little Rock

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We went to the protest today at the state capitol in Little Rock. I’m not good at estimating the size of crowds. I’d say there were perhap...

One Great Fellowship of Love: Mormons and Catholics United

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In all the fallout over what happened in California with proposition 8, I think we must not lose sight of a modern-day miracle. With signs ...