Category: Social Issues
Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas
It is that time of the year again. It is a time when several religions are celebrating holidays. It is a festive and joyous time. Many of the stores you visit have a greeter there to say “Happy Holi... Read More
Who Are We At War With Anyway?
I lived in a small New England town called Sudbury in Massachusetts for years. About three weeks ago, Sudbury lost one of their own to the “war on terror.” Army 1st Lieutenant Scott Milley who w... Read More
Superman of the House
This post originally appeared at the Good Men Project Magazine In 1987, just a few weeks before he died of cancer, my father recorded his final thoughts onto an audiotape. Among his slow, brea... Read More
Everything Matters!
Ron Currie Jr.’s Everything Matters! tells the story of Junior Thibodeau, a boy who comes of age with specific knowledge of the precise date of the end of the world: June 15, 2010. Junior’s knowle... Read More
The burning oíkos
In a world filled with violence, injustice, and hunger, what is at stake in the work of interreligious study and dialogue? This post explores this question through an allegory by Raimon Panikkar.... Read More
After the Flood
After the Flood human society beings to rebuild itself. The population grows, migration occurs, and people engage in the task of constructing a city for themselves. Interrupting what seems like a rela... Read More
On Civility, Discourse, and Elizabeth Edwards
I am not interested in talking about the stance of the church or its members this morning. Rather, I want to use this space to raise the larger issue of civility. Put differently, I might ask: “Is... Read More
Judas, Snitches, and the ethics of pseudo bravado.
K-Nice stepped through the wormhole looking more hurried than usual. He never discussed his age, but from his many first-person antedeluvian accounts, Gali had guessed that he was, well, as old as the... Read More