by James Gordon | Dec 28, 2016 | Opinion
Waiting for New Year’s Day can be an exercise in passive patience or an episode of agitated impatience or even a process of slow release anticipation. Alternatively, waiting can be a time of fallow resting, allowing new ideas to seed and propagate in the fertile...
by James Gordon | Dec 14, 2016 | Opinion
I find prayer as much of a problem as a solution, and I find praying raises at least as many questions as answers. It isn’t that I don’t believe in prayer – of course I do. I believe in prayer because I believe in a God whose way of being is...
by James Gordon | Nov 16, 2016 | Opinion
I can’t bear to listen to the news. A friend shared this sentiment with me recently, reflecting an experience that I am beginning to hear with some regularity. The feeling with which she spoke exposed a vulnerability and anxiety that is becoming increasingly...
by James Gordon | May 6, 2016 | Opinion
“Eye in the Sky” offers a hard examination in the ethics of modern weaponry, the lethal necessities of anti-terrorist operations, the intelligence capacities of advanced technological surveillance techniques, and the tensions between political vacillation...
by James Gordon | Mar 9, 2016 | Opinion
Economics eventually lead back to God. Justice and injustice, generosity and greed, compassion and callousness, sharing and possessiveness, these and many other contrasts in the human condition are inextricably woven into the fabric of human ethics, and for people of...
