Morality
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No Act of Faith
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2 min read
It is no act of faith to deny Desmond Tutu’s daughter from presiding at her godfather’s funeral because she is married to a woman.
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We’ve run out of excuses for football
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3 min read
Football is killing people. And because it isn’t happening on the field, we can pretend like it isn’t happening at all.
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Between: the Parable of the Prodigal Son(s)
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6 min read
A look at the gaps in the lectionary. This week: the gap between Proper 19C and Proper 20C. The text: Luke 15:11-32. You know this story. Even if you’ve never read it, you know it. It’s in your bones and in your imagination. Artists have mused with it. Writers have cribbed from it. Filmmakers have…
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Continuing a failed war on terror is a moral failure
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10 min read
The great moral failure wasn’t only in launching the war on terror, it has been in continuing it in spite of all the moral and statistical evidence. The social share title reads “The scene of America’s longest war is now world’s terrorism hotspot”. Nearly 18 years into the war on terror, this headline should be…
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What Every Christian Should Know About Torture
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4 min read
Torture Isn’t Actually Partisan It takes a certain level of what Pope Francis calls “spiritual Alzheimers” for Christians to think torture is acceptable. In any circumstance. I’m willing to give us some level of forgiveness for our confusion in the closing months of 2001, when the country, and particularly the government, was searching for ways to respond…
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Why TV Needs Father Gabriel
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5 min read
Warning: mild spoilers of The Walking Dead follow. The Walking Dead. I haven’t read the comics, though I should have by now. I’m a geek, I used to be a comic geek at that, and I love the show, so this is totally in my wheelhouse. Maybe I love the suspense of watching the show as it comes on: of waiting until…