Saturday, March 31, 2018

As Men Lift Up the Cross in Holy Week Liturgies Around the World, Some Theological Questions

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In a just-published article entitled " In an age of Trump and Stormy Daniels, evangelical leaders face sex scandals of their own...

What Does it Mean to Learn on Good Friday That Sacramento Police Shot Stephon Clark 7 Times in Back?

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Don Thompson and Sophia Bollag  at TPM What does it mean to read this report on Good Friday?
Friday, March 30, 2018

"You can't talk about #GoodFriday with any kind of moral relevance—any understanding of how Christ's crucifixion occurs all around us—without discussing police shootings"

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"Between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men & women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Rom...

Behold the Wood of the Cross: Good Friday Meditation on Crosses . . . And Crossings

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Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On (London: Faber & Faber, 2016): Oh to live in the world one sees from the train — empty, ...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

"No Going Back from What Happened This Weekend": Commentary on #MarchForOurLives

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Charles Pierce, " There's No Going Back From What Happened This Weekend. The Gun Debate Is Over ":
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Quote for the Day: Fred Clark on How "Evangelical Christianity Is Turning into 8chan"

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At his Slacktivist site today , Fred Clark reports on the decision of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University to make a biographical ...

Police Shooting of Stephon Clark and Exoneration of Mark Anthony Conditt: Two Stories We Need to Read Side by Side

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Again, how the police chief talks about a young white man who terrorizes a city. Remember how they talked about innocent Black children li...