civil rights
-
Dividing is an active verb
•
2 min read
When we read about Jesus and division, we are often prone to justify our own actions rather than engage with his point.
-
A bigot veto is bad policy
•
3 min read
In an attempt to do something they think is good, some lawmakers are creating a Frankenstein’s monster of the law.
-
The Law Doesn’t Convict
•
4 min read
We often treat the laws we all live by as neutral and self-enforcing. They are neither. All laws are written, legislated, and enforced by humans. Often with very different understandings of what they mean. Therefore laws don’t simply arrive. Nor do they simply begin – or pre-exist us. And we all know that laws don’t…
-
Rights
•
1 min read
It’s about respecting dignity Some Christians talk a lot about their personal rights. But there are a few reasons many others have a hard time talking about rights. Chief among them: that whole God-at-the-center-of-things thing. And yet, our baptismal covenant directs us into different territory than we’re used to hearing in the media. We pledge…
-
In these fields
•
5 min read
We often mistake the pursuit of justice as a problem. Then punish the justice seeker rather than extrajudicial violence.
-
Why do Neo-Nazis need a police escort?
•
4 min read
Dealing with Neo-Nazis and white nationalists doesn’t need to be that complicated.