In this month’s Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch profiles Dr. Angelo Volandes’ work to change the way Americans approach death. After realizing that most people facing end of life decisions did not really understand what...
Read More“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a...
Read MoreOver at the Evangelical Channel on Patheos, Adrian Warnock is hosting a conversation about faith and mental illness in honor of the fact that May is Mental Health Awareness month. Throughout the month, I hope to post blogs to...
Read MoreThe death toll from the recent collapse of a clothing factory in Bangladesh has topped 1000, and yesterday brought the story of another fire in a large, 11-story factory. Most workers were gone, but those still there suffocated...
Read MoreActs 1:1-11 Psalm 47 Ephesians 1:17-23 Luke 24:46-53 Let’s be honest: it is hard to delve too deeply into the feast of the Ascension without sounding either like a gnostic or a mythologizer. On the one hand, you could say that...
Read MoreRegrettably, the topic of infanticide remains stubbornly in the news. Last week, for instance, we had the release of the LiveAction undercover tapes which seemed to indicate that newborns are at least sometimes refused medical...
Read MoreKnown for elaborate and exciting production, the Metropolitan Opera in New York exudes drama. In a year that celebrates major anniversaries for both Verdi and Wagner, the MET launched new productions of classics like Rigoletto...
Read MoreMichael Peppard has an excellent post up at dotCommonweal about recent studies of CEO pay, and specifically the ratio between CEO and median worker pay. This ratio is a favorite statistical “sign” for increasing inequality. The...
Read MoreA few weeks ago I took part in a conference at Lindenwood University devoted to “Free Markets and Localism.” Most of the other faculty participating in the event were far more sympathetic to libertarianism than are...
Read MoreThe following is a guest post by Holly Taylor Coolman, Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College and mother to three. Last week, the Huffington Post offered readers an essay similar to several publications in recent...
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