The release of photos of Americans supposedly treating imprisoned suspected terrorists badly has been blocked by the Pentagon and President Obama. The official reason for this is that there is concern the public release of them will further endanger American…
This past Friday, May 1, 2009, I joined with thousands of others across the country in marching for immigrant and worker’s rights. I was part of the march that began in Echo Park in Los Angeles, went down Sunset Boulevard, and concluded in…
Thank you for making the four memos approving of and describing the torture done to children of God in our name public even though many pleaded for you not to. Thank you for letting me know that my…
The day after Barack Obama was elected president, I heard people say multiple times that we have now arrived as a “post-racial” nation and that it can now be said that anyone can truly be president if a black man…
According to Associated Press writer Jesse Washington, after Obama’s election incidents of race based hate crimes escalated across the country. I guess, no matter the rhetoric of some commentators, we really aren’t living in a post-racial country.
President-elect Barack Obama, in his first interview since being elected, promised to close Guantanamo Bay. Several news reports had been reporting that he wanted to close Guantanamo but was unsure of where to move those presently imprisoned there. There are…
Social location is vital to understanding how people come to their interpretations, and appropriations, of the Bible and its stories. One of the most popular biblical stories people have historically personalized has been the story of the exodus. America’s earliest…
According to a recent article in The Washington Post, the Bush administration has known and approved of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” i.e., torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, since 2002, and provided written approval of such techniques to the CIA in…
My mother is an immigrant from Korea who has worked as a janitor in a hospital and waitress in a Korean restaurant. My father is a white guy from a small town in Tennessee who has been a soldier and…
Times are hard. I work at a homeless shelter for single men with a resource center in the front offices for homeless individuals and families, and business has been booming lately. We have seen a dramatic increase in people coming…
Based on some responses to my last post, and a new poll by Faith in Public Life and Mercer University, it seems there are many evangelicals who believe that there are in fact times when torture is necessary and proper. I am assuming these people also believe it is at [...]
Christians are people who follow a tortured and murdered God. This fact speaks clearly to what our values should be. One of those values should be a rejection of torture, violence in the name of “law” and the common good, and murder.
Currently, the U.S. government has been accused of torture at Guantanamo Bay and has
My mother is an immigrant from Korea who has worked as a janitor in a hospital and waitress in a Korean restaurant. My father is a white guy from a small town in Tennessee who has been a soldier and…
Christians are people who follow a tortured and murdered God. This fact speaks clearly to what our values should be. One of those values should be a rejection of torture, violence in the name of “law” and the common good, and murder.
