Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

"The Whole Thing Is Simply Beyond Comprehension": Post-Paris Discussions and Lessons from History Not Learned and Unlearned

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US Jul ’38: What’s your attitude towards allowing German, Austrian & other political refugees to come into the US? pic.twitter.com/7hM...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Swords. And Dying by Them.

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What follows is a series of excerpts from things I read/watched this morning, which all seem to me to have a common theme, one about taki...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Kali Holloway on 2014's Best Documentaries: From Colonialism to War to Ecology to Misogony, Homophobia, and Heterosexism

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In this lull time between the various winter-solstice holidays and the celebration of a new year, when we have time on our hands, Kal...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

10th Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq: A Poem

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And, finally today, because yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the start of the unjust Iraq war, a poem I wrote when the Gulf War got...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Tea Party Jesus on Bryan Fischer's Reading of Crucifixion as Justification for Aggressive War

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Here's what the Tea Party Jesus site makes of the recent remarks of Bryan Fische r of American Family Association depicting Jesus...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Bryan Fischer on God's Approval of Aggressive Wars: The Price of U.S. Catholic Bishops' Alliance with Religious Right

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Dear God: it wasn't enough for Bryan Fischer to write recently that Jesus's death on the cross is an icon indicating God's app...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Wars and Rumors: Reflections about War on Pearl Harbor Day

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Wars and rumors of war. I’ve noted before on this blog that my father was a World War II veteran. In fact, he was at Pearl Harbor when it w...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

In Midwinter: An Advent Meditation

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Winter sky. Bare branches Backs arched up, out. A cat licking its paws In the yard next door. The pink of slave-quarter walls Made nacreous ...
Friday, September 11, 2009

A Reader Writes: Can the Milgram Experiment Be Applied to Cyberbullying?

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Since I blogged earlier today about my need to look for those shining threads that pull my mind and heart forward by providing me with new m...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Thought for the Day: Ivor Gurney on Cruelty of Man to Man

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Not half can be written of cruelty of man, on man, Not often such evil guessed as between man and man. Ivor Gurney, “To God,” in Selected Po...

Mr. Bush the First Goes to War

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The following journal entry is from January 1991: Bush has gone to war. Always obscene, but what is particularly obscene this time is the i...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Bush and Torture: What Does It Mean to Be Methodist Today?

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I have been fighting with myself about this posting. Because, God help me, I cannot read the sickening memos about our recent legacy of tor...
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

We Are in Trouble: Comments on theTheocracy Slouching to the Polls to Be Born

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I remember reading years ago something German theologian Dorothee Sölle wrote about the Vietnam War. To be specific: what she wrote about i...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

4,000 Dead and the Office of Motherhood in All Things

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Our high God, the sovereign wisdom of all, arrayed himself in this low place and made himself entirely ready in our poor flesh t...