Who Will Proclaim Hospitality to a Hostile World?

by | Oct 20, 2011 | Opinion

Editor’s note: Below is part two of a two-part column on immigration and theology. Read part one here. Theology is by definition the result of an interaction between a faith experience and the intellectual and cultural setting in which it finds itself. In...

Immigration Issue Far More Than a Legal Problem

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Opinion

Editor’s note: Below is part one of a two-part column on immigration and theology.    Attending a recent screening of “Gospel Without Borders” and a discussion of its implications by some frontline participants clarified for me as nothing else the...

Sometimes, We’re Called to Abandon Common Sense

by | Sep 26, 2011 | Opinion

A recently posted comment in response to a news interview with Ellin Jimmerson – who is featured in “GospelWithoutBorders” and who is suing in an effort to block Alabama’s new immigration law – suggested that a more apt title for the documentary...

Executing People Just Because the Law Says We Can

by | Sep 15, 2011 | Opinion

Georgia has set an execution date – again – for Troy Davis, accused, convicted and sentenced in 1991 for the murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. Seven of the nine witnesses have recanted the testimony used to convict him, claiming they were coerced by...

Four Political Litmus Tests for the Common Good

by | Aug 31, 2011 | Opinion

Now that our governing system has evolved into a constant election cycle, where the thinking of our collective leadership has moved from the good of the commonwealth to how best to get elected, we have become a community of political shoppers, watching the...