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Of Police, Riots, and Sin (R. Ward Holder)

…in their own ways, from leaving a dead man-child in the street for four hours and a grand jury process designed not to indict, to the killing of a man…

Terror, Charlie Hebdo and Planned Parenthood – Cristina Richie

…not usually prompt deadly violence. Questionable cartoons and certain medical procedures elicit such a strong response because some people take them to be personal choices (not even sins), and others…

Weird John Brown and the Uses of Elusiveness (E. Brooks Holifield)

…lend themselves to deadly abuse. And any ethical reflection that remains within the limits of a this-worldly calculation of consequences or duties will find it hard to assess either the…

Weird John Brown: A Response to Cavanaugh, Day, Holifield, Murphy, and Ochs (by Ted Smith)

…makes possible. There is a close bond between the absence of Jesus (dead and not present) and the birth of the Christian language (objective and faithful testimony to his survival).[i]…

The Politics of Resurrection and Resistance—John 20:1-18 (John Allen)

…did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10Then the disciples returned to their homes. 11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she…

The Middle East and the Unintended Consequences of Our “Willful Ignorance”

…result we find ourselves on the threshold, as Christopher Dickey writes in The Daily Beast, of the “next great Middle East War”, a deadly and highly plausible triangulation of the…

Desecrating the Flag vs. Desecrating the Prophet – How to Prevent Liberalism From Becoming Its Own Worst Enemy

…bait. Elton Simpson, 30, and Nadir Hamid Soofi, 34, showed up at the event in body armor and opened fire. Both were shot dead. One security guard was wounded. The…

Satan’s Temptations in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Pt. 2 (Caleb Upton)

…They flock to the temples of sport…Many sports devotees return after the games to dead-end jobs, or no jobs, to massive personal debt, to the bleakness of the future. No…

The Hajj Stampede Is Nothing New, But Raises Questions About The Future of Muslim Pilgrimage

…30% of the dead – 228 at the current count – were Iranian, which has further soured the perennially cool relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. What is the likely…

The Wisdom of the Serpent and the Harmlessness of the Dove (Jeremy Sabella)

…and Nagasaki bombings took place in August of 1945). With millions dead and the world order in shambles, the distinction between the children of light and the children of darkness…

Sharing the Griefs of the World When Only Some Are Deemed Grievable – Annie Selak

…the bombings, they were not fully seen as lives. If we cannot value someone as living, we cannot mourn when they are dead. Butler posits familiarity as the guiding force…

Call for Papers: Beyond Habermas? A Special Issue of “The European Legacy”

…Cooke, Al. Ferrara, R. Dworkin, etc.). Deliberation, interreligious dialogue, and the limits of integration. Extended Deadline: 07/03/2016 (the special issue is scheduled to appear in 2016). Scholars who intend to…