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July 16, 2019 by Chuck McKnight   photo above: Gage Skidmore, Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0 Generic. WN: Amen! Except: I…

WN: Kevin Miller produced the movie Hellbound? five years ago to look at changing views on the doctrine of hell.…

 WN: A friend reminded me, in response to that below, that none of us in the first world is…

WN: This was inspired by Brad Jersak after we jointly (with Ron Dart and Archbishop Lazar (see the earlier post,…

WN: War and Hell is an interactive essay with a movie and a book. The movie: Saving Private Ryan. The…

illustration above: The rescue by (Anabaptist) Dirk Willems. Engraving by Jan Luiken in Martyrs Mirror, v. 2, p. 387 of…

At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1…

***NOTE: Please check out the footnotes for additional, more detailed commentary. Also, there are poetry and songs in the final…

By Sarah Posner Illustration above by Brian Reedy. Think of the illustration in conjunction with this hugely ironic quote, one…

Book Review of: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes Du…

Colleen Dulle photo above: Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, is pictured in a Feb. 17, 2015, photo. (CNS photo/courtesy…

by David Swanson May 6, 2020 WN: The article highlighted below represents a brilliant and multiplex presentation of the worldwide…

WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission” of the…

By Robert C. Koehler image above: An example of the damage done by depleted uranium shells on armour plating. WN:…

WN: Some of the papers on Restorative Justice are understandably repetitive, though I culling the obviously such. image above: sikhnet.com…

WN: The host was the affable lawyer Gerry Palmer, quite well-known in Abbotsford for his work with numerous non-profit organizations,…

 John 12:20 - 33; John 11:49-52: 49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to…

By  Community last July 17, 2021 image above: cagle.com WN: "Guns and Bibles" (see below)--but nary a drop of authentic…

By Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig July 15, 2021 WN: Sick . . . excerpts: Part two of an…

By Michael Kranish July 14, 2021 photo above: patheos.com WN: What does one do with such elite entitlement; with such…

by David Cayley January 2, 2016 WN: This is a highly instructive essay. There is much on my website about…

Opinion Michelle Goldberg July 9, 2021 photo above: Mark Peterson/Redux WN: To the first part of the title: Amen!!!((This article…

By Ishaan Tharoor with Claire Parker  Email photo above: A man speaks on the phone next to a mural in…

By Brian Bethune July 7, 2021 photo above: mindbrews.in WN: Loony and terrifying! You will also find interesting this story…

WN: The following video, God's Covenant in the Promised Land, was powerful in 2014. It is tragically as true now…

Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill April 28 2021 Recording: Go to website and listen to Joe Biden's War Powers 2021-04-28·36 min. Transcript…

By Charlie Savage May 1, 2021 photo above: Targeted killings away from conventional war zones have been a central feature…

The new president’s paper trail reveals a man who has often betrayed his own bedrock principles. Jeremy Scahill April 28…

“He tells them what to do. He tells them why they’re angry.” Mark Follman March+April 2021 Issue photo above: Nate…

March 24, 2021 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic photo above: wisegeek.com WN: The "new model" called for in…

NOTE on image above: Foot washing by UK artist Dinah Roe Kendall WN: It is exciting to introduce The Kenarchy…

WN: Introduction Below is a clickable list of many of David Cayley’s Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) about 50-minute-long podcasts. They…

Jesus Was a Victim of Empire. Acknowledging This Should Transform Christianity. By Christine Mungai, Truthout Part of the Series: Religion's…

The McCarrick Report: The Vatican Owns Up To Enabling Abuse November 10, 2020 by Mary Pezzulo WN: The article highlighted…

Posted by Ariel Dorfman  October 22, 2020. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. WN: In a word: brilliant! More so: incredibly…

Increasingly uncomfortable with News Corp’s politics and profit motives, Rupert’s younger son chose chickens and sheep over Fox, and insists…

Stuart Stevens was a winning GOP operative. Now he feels terrible about what he’s done to the country. By MICHAEL…

by Wade Davis August 6, 2020 Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the…

Published on Thursday, August 06, 2020 by Common Dreams by Rev. John Dear photo above: "Our message over the years…

Dear Mr. Biden. If I might be so bold, I wonder about connecting some dots at this incredible kairos moment…

WN: Please see in light of the title this outstanding article by Canadian Wade Davis: The Unraveling of America. 1.…

Editorial: Dolan delivers the church to Trump and the GOP Apr 28, 2020 by NCR Editorial Staff photo above: New…

"Nothing" bishop gets frank on married priests, Vatican under Francis Feb 19, 2020 by Joshua J. McElwee photo above: Bishop…

November 20, 2019 by Michelle Renee Matisons WN: Former Canadian Member of Parliament Chuck Strahl once remonstrated at a workshop…

Julie Schumacher Cohen Julie Schumacher Cohen is Director of Community and Government Relations at The University of Scranton. She is…

November 17, 2019 The 50-Year History of U.S. Dominance of the Middle Eastern Arms Trade By William D. Hartung Honestly,…

The Exposure of the Republican Party The GOP will not be a great or good party until those who lead…

Of Course a US President Can Murder Somebody Without Legal Jeopardy—Ain't That Great! Published on Saturday, October 26, 2019 by…

Published on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Common Dreams by Michael Winship The White House theocrats may be the biggest danger…

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, High Crimes and Misdemeanors of the Fading American Century The Real Cover-Up: Putting Donald Trump’s Impeachment in…

28/07/2019 photo above: KayR Studios from Pexels WN: All I can say is: wow! Letter 19: On Judging Desert Fathers…

How Can We Celebrate “Freedom” While Kids Are in Concentration Camps? By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Published July 4, 2019…

Benjamin L. Corey July 1, 2019   WN: Of course, the persons addressed in the article highlighted below in the…

Good Friday Sermon and Easter Sermon, 2017 by Randy Klassen photo above: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem WN: Randy…

Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Published March 14, 2019 photo above:…

On March 15, the Climate Kids Are Coming A massive, international, youth-led mobilization will demand action on the climate crisis.…

Theology That Builds Walls   January 8, 2019 by Morgan Guyton    photo above: First Baptist Church of Dallas on…

Trump routinely says things that aren’t true. Few Americans believe him. Polling A new Washington Post Fact Checker poll Take…

After 30 Years Studying Climate, Scientist Declares: "I've Never Been as Worried as I Am Today" And a colleague says…

Trump's Massive Corruption Exposé WN: The sooner the All-In-One Ultimate Ugly American, Planet Enemy Number One and Supreme Narcissist is…

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Bad Character Has Nothing to Do With His Bad Politics Published on Wednesday, October 03, 2018 by…

The Kavanaugh Hearings by John Graham WN: This is very wise commentary -- thanks to one of my nieces for…

September 14, 2018 by Carl Boggs photo above: The U.S. Army | CC BY 2.0 WN: It is astounding that…

Respecting the best of McCain requires grappling with the rest of McCain. By Timothy Patrick McCarthy Twitter August 27, 2018…

August 6, 2018 by Scot McKnight 68 Comments photo above: Pat Baranowski was the executive assistant to the Rev. Bill…

Commits the church to working toward its abolition worldwide((There is clearly moral ambiguity on this issue. I greatly appreciate this…

  God, whose love and joy                     are present everywhere, can’t…

  Reader's Editorials Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Russia WN: The article highlighted below does not surprise... It is also no…

In a small Alabama town, an evangelical congregation reckons with God, President Trump and the meaning of morality Please go…

To understand why evangelicals support the president, look to the first Protestant. By Michael Massing April 19, 2018 illustration above…

How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living…

The Cold War before the culture war March 6, 2018 by Fred Clark WN: What emerges with great clarity in…

Feb 23, 2018 photo above: Evangelist Billy Graham speaks in Dallas at the 1974 Southern Baptist Convention. (AP) by Mel…

WN: These are fascinating stories of Kenyan villages where women are in charge. You may notice they are a tad…

Flanked by Nation contributors Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben, Bill de Blasio announced that New York City would divest from…

WN: In January 1975, I read John Howard Yoder's The Politics of Jesus at an Inter-term course taught by Clark…

Published on Friday, November 10, 2017 by Common Dreams At a seminar at the Vatican, Pope Francis praised the U.N.'s…

by Thomas Edward Brown If thou could'st empty all thyself of self, Like to a shell dishabited, Then might He…

TAKE ACTION SEPTEMBER 16-24, 2017! Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term grassroots movement for a culture of peace and nonviolence free…

SEP 11, 2017 Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and…

AUG 21, 2017 COLUMNS by Juan Cole an excerpt: In fact, we are all climate criminals and saboteurs. The US…

by Abby Zimet, staff writer illustration above: by The Spectator We can't even. Tensions with North Korea continue to escalate,…

Thursday, 27 July 2017 06:37 ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT photo above: As Guantánamo remains open and the…

book cover above: Stricken By God? is an anthology of papers by authors from all the major Christian traditions, arguing…

Posted by Dilip Hiro at 6:51am, July 6, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. image above: Winning entry of this year's International Trumpism…

 In a new book Dream Hoarders, Richard V. Reeves argues that members of the upper middle class, not just the…

Published on Friday, June 30, 2017 by Washington Post by Eugene Robinson photo above: White House deputy press secretary Sarah…

The Irrationality of Iran Vilification By Danny Sjursen Posted by Danny Sjursen at 7:46am, May 30, 2017. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. WN: It…

Select Bibliography of Key Restorative Justice Works Compiled by Wayne Northey WN: Today, I updated a bibliography, especially weighted towards…

Home › 2013 › Volume 64, Issue 08 (January) › Global Resource Depletion Is Population the Problem? by Fred Magdoff Topics: Ecology , Marxist Ecology , Stagnation Places: Africa illustration above found here…

WN: Below is the first footnote of an essay for a possible chapter in an upcoming book slated for fall…

Glenn Greenwald April 7 2017, 7:43 a.m. WN: "The first casualty of war is truth", is an adage proved invariably true…

Hello from Winnipeg! I couldn’t put it off any longer. The new self-help/memoir, Dancing with Elephants, is now available everywhere.…

February 23, 2017 Dana Snitzky Longreads photo above: British (Canadians) burn White House in War of 1812. (Metaphorically, would that…

February 15, 2017 by Kimberly Stover WN: I have copied the entire posting below, with a link at the end…

by Dennis Venema / Scot McKnight • February 16, 2017 WN: Almost anyone raised fundamentalist or evangelical was fed on the almost…

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Interview WN: Someone described Stephen Miller as a snot-nosed…

Ben Jacobs in Washington @Bencjacobs Thursday 9 February 2017 23.17 GMT Complete victory’: attorney general celebrates Trump travel ban verdict Judges…

Posted on Dec 27, 2016 By Juan Cole / Informed Comment an excerpt: He criticized President Obama:  “The heart aches that after…

By George Takei November 18 at 6:00 AM Follow @GeorgeTakei George Takei is an actor, activist and social media maven.…

Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Frank Castro, The Hampton Institute | News Analysis photo above:

December 16, 2015 Watch Full Show DemocracyNow! WN: The audience booed when conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked evangelical neurosurgeon…

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015 The document linked below is outstanding! It is nothing less…

By Tom Engelhardt Tomgram: Engelhardt, Resurrecting My Parents From the Dead for Election 2016 | TomDispatch an excerpt: To say…

Below is one fairly detailed review of the book  The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and…

How Trump stopped the gaslighting of America. By Matthew Arnold October 26 9:07 photo above: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump…

His refusal to prosecute torturers and his Wild West assassination of bin Laden show how moral complacency can all too…

by Shane Bauer July/August 2016 issue of Mother Jones This is a highly poignant story, at once courageous and deeply…

photo above: A mural near the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. (

Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:00 By Michelle Chen, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Motorcycle officers in a motorcade escort for…

Seeking False Security at Fortress Europe's Gates Thursday, 07 July 2016 00:00 By Michelle Chen, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above:…

Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:00 By William J. Astore, TomDispatch | News Analysis photo above: F-18 Hornets fly as part…

Posted by Rebecca Gordon at 7:25am, June 7, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. photo above: A composite showing some…

Martin Lukacs @Martin_Lukacs Thursday 12 May 2016 13.23 BST photo above: thesource.com an excerpt: These arsonists have a name and…

image above: Benito Mussolini (left) and Adolf Hitler (right), the leaders of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, respectively, were both fascists. WN: Sobering. Canada anyone? See…

An excerpt: It seems that we Christians always have had difficulty keeping together Christian points of tension. Whether the two…

War, Police and Prisons: Cross-Examining State-Sanctioned Violence Streams of Justice, September 28, 2009 WN: I was asked by the above-named…

photo above: freeimages.com An excerpt: When Anselm of Canterbury wrote Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man) in the 11th…

image above: webpages.uidaho.edu WN: Evangelicals were in bed with former President George W. Bush like never before. They of course…

image above: izquotes.com WN: I was invited to dialogue with Dr. Richard Land of (later) “The Ethics and Religious Liberty…

In 2007 I first published Chrysalis Crucible, a coming-of-age novel about young Andy Norton who goes off to West Berlin…

In 2007 I first published Chrysalis Crucible, a coming-of-age novel about young Andy Norton who goes off to West Berlin…

In 2007 I first published Chrysalis Crucible, a coming-of-age novel about young Andy Norton who goes off to West Berlin…

In 2007 I first published Chrysalis Crucible, a coming-of-age novel about young Andy Norton who goes off to West Berlin…