Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Monday, December 5, 2022

So the Former US President and Current GOP Candidate for the Presidency Calls for a Coup and the End of US Democracy — And?

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President Donald J. Trump 2 March 2019, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention...
Monday, February 10, 2020

The Holocaust and Christian Theologies of Sin and Forgiveness: Imperative Need for Christians to Listen to Jews

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Elizabeth Johnson, The Quest for the Living God (London: Bloomsbury, 2007) Ruth Krall's recent sounding of various ecclesial resp...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Wave of Queer Bashing in U.S. Catholicism and Cheap-Grace Christianity: Further Reflections on What's Going on with Viganò's Cabal

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Shared by Chiara Giaccardi on Twitter The letter written by Fordham theologians Patrick Hornbeck and Bryan Massingale to their colle...
Friday, January 27, 2017

When No One Was Gay: We Must Not Deceive Ourselves; It Can Happen Again. In a Heartbeat.

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New York Times , 2 July 1937, p. 1, col. 6-7 It's the late 1980s or possibly early 1990s. I'm at my first full-time teachin...
Friday, November 25, 2016

"One Wonders If These People Are People at All": Catholic Pro-Life Response?

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Grace Wilson, " CNN Segment on Anti-Semite Sparks Backlash " One wonders if these people are people at all : thus white nati...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

David Gushee on "My Discovery in Recent Years of Versions of Christianity That Actually Make People Worse Human Beings Than They Might Otherwise Have Been"

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For Religion News Service, David Gushee writes today about how the hopeful view of how Christian communities relate to the world around ...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Two Thanksgiving Videos: Brothers and Sisters Under the Skin, and Our Chance to Atone for the Holocaust

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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Ruth Krall on Ferguson and the Task of Re-Humanizing Ourselves and Our Culture

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Yesterday, Ruth Krall sent out a meditation on what Ferguson teaches (or should teach ) us. It's very powerful, and manages to we...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Quote for the Day: "Civilized" Holocausts?

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Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic blog on humanism and Holocaust history:
Friday, September 21, 2012

Elizabeth Johnson's Quest for the Living God: Concluding Theological Reflections (2)

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Continued from yesterday's posting --again a transcript from a journal entry I've written as Steve and I travel, after I fini...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Anthea Butler Excoriates Attempt of Catholic Centrists to Give Cover to Anti-Semitism of Lefebvrists

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At Religion Dispatches, Anthea Butler writes , "On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Catholic 'Liberal' Hails Return of Anti-Se...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Mormons in the Public Square: Romney's Candidacy and Controversy about LDS Baptism of Anne Frank

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One of the interesting religion-and-politics stories of the past week: due to Mitt Romney's prominence in the Republican campaign...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Scott Lively's Pink Swastika Thesis Promoted on Catholic Blog: Some Necessary Critical Questions

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I had thought better of noticing this recent discussion at the blog site of a leading American Catholic journal of the center.  It's Ad...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Benedict Meets with Ugandan Bishops: Total Silence about Kill-the-Gays Legislation

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What I earlier today wrote speaks to the foundations of faith for the community to which I belong—or, at least, this is how I understand th...
Sunday, June 7, 2009

Thought for the Day: Daniel Mendelsohn on the Importance of Every Story

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To be alive is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more ...

Mr. Obama and the Golden Rule: Morality Depends on Moving Beyond Words to Actions

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I have persistently suggested that ( e.g. here and here ), by remaining silent regarding one of the key human rights issues of his presiden...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Sunday Poems: On the Holocaust

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Two poems today. The first is entitled "Kristallnacht," the second, "On Touching a Theresienstadt Death Cart": Fire mar...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Moving Beyond Lies: Responding to "Ex-Gay" Lies by Claiming the Gay Place at Table

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Another update to my recent postings about the American Family Association’s beefed-up outreach to youth through the internet. Pam’s House ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Hate Linked to Hate: Holocaust Denial and Other Forms of Hatred

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Why care about those who deny the Holocaust and about anti-Semitism? As I've noted in the comments section of this blog recently, group...

Confronting the Evidence for the Holocaust: Seeing, Believing, and Moral Conversion

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I keep thinking of Bishop Richard Williamson’s recent statement to the German media that, as he studies the evidence for the Holocaust, he w...