How would Mahatma Gandhi confront terrorism today? And what action would the apostle of nonviolence take in response to the wars waged in the name of anti-terrorism?
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Joseph Wakelee-Lynch 12-01-2006
There may be no more basic lesson in persuasive writing than the futility of creating a straw man: Sketch a loose summary of an opponent’s argument in order to dismiss it with ease.
Obery M. Hendricks Jr. 12-01-2006
Jesus was a political revolutionary—not the meek figure he is commonly portrayed as—whose teachings have been diluted, if not corrupted, by those in positions of power, writes Obery Hen
Tobias Winright 9-01-2006
The authors connect the dots between Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and those who influenced them.
Betty Spackman 9-01-2006
The difference between messaging the truth - and being messengers of the truth.
Steve Thorngate 8-01-2006
This day is filling up my room,
Is coming through my door.
Oh, I have not seen this day before.
John Potter 8-01-2006
Is a movement of post-punk, justice-seeking, Jesus-following musicians on the rise?
Danny Duncan Collum 8-01-2006
Neil Young's Living With War reopens the channel between artist and audience.
Julie Polter 8-01-2006
Like a cluster of traffic cops, insurance adjusters, and whiplash lawyers at a multicar pileup, writers of all sorts are trying to make sense of the dangerous intersection of faith and politics in
Glen H. Stassen 8-01-2006
The Sermon on the Mount is one of the gems of the New Testament, comprised as it is of the spare beauty of the Beatitudes and the solemn pleas of the Lord’s Prayer.
Kate Bowman-Johnston 7-01-2006
Hollywood's humanitarian helpers direct more attention to global hot spots. But does it help?
Danny Duncan Collum 7-01-2006
Members and associates of Holy Family Catholic Church in Natchez, the first African-American parish in Mississippi, played an integral role in the civil rights movement.