Category: Social Issues
Dethroning Your Bully God
February’s State of Formation topic is bullying of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons. The recent and ongoing campaign is to impress upon the victims of bullying the message that â... Read More
Power and Privilege: Why Reinhold Niebuhr is Key to Understanding the Budget Battle
A few months ago New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wondered in amazement how economic policies that had long since been disproved in the academic world could still be influencing public policy (W... Read More
Boo and the Big Bad Bully
Last Halloween, the Internet went viral with the story of a preschool boy who wanted to dress as Daphne for Halloween. His mother supported the plan, but the child—given the ghostly pseudonym Boo—... Read More
Evangelicals and Muslims Loving God, Each Other, and the World Together?
Is conflict inevitable? Fighting and fighting words aside, relations between Evangelicals and Muslims are far from uniform.... Read More
Violence and Celebration in Revolutionary Times
Last week, amid the slowing of protests and the celebratory atmosphere in Egypt following the departure of former President Hosni Mubarak, a debate emerged over the honoring of police officers alleged... Read More
Rage in the Digital Age (pt. 2 of 2)
Rather than looking for the opposite of wrath, should we be looking for wrath’s perfection? The completion of wrath, rather than just its undoing? Patience isn’t something to avoid, but it’s not... Read More
Destructive Nature of the Muslim “Radicalization” Hearings
It is a nightmare for an entire religious tradition to be put on the stand as a collective for the actions of an extreme few. It is worse still when the extreme few are such a miniscule fraction of th... Read More