by Fred Guttman | Oct 31, 2018 | Opinion
We are all recoiling in shock and horror at the murder of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. This occurred in a congregation whose very name has the word “life” in it. The attack occurred on the Jewish Sabbath, which Jewish people call Shabbat. When...
by Christopher Schilling | Oct 31, 2018 | Opinion
“So, let me get this straight,” my patient, an older woman in her mid-70s who was married to a pastor for more than 50 years, said to me with curiosity. “You’re a hospital chaplain, and your fiancé is a church pastor. Does that mean when you’re going to get married,...
by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas | Oct 31, 2018 | Opinion
The Oct. 27 mass shooting during services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh confronts us with the human capacity for evil, and with our complicity in failing to address adequately the rise of anti-Semitism in our society. According to the Anti-Defamation...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 30, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Jesus was in the business of casting out devils, not creating them out of the very people whom he loved through his life, death and resurrection. So it is telling when those who profess his name today so quickly join political forces to demonize...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 30, 2018 | Opinion
Last week in America, our worst demons emerged from the shadows. On three occasions, America’s worst tendencies were on full display, demonstrating a country suffering from the ongoing consequences of racial bigotry, the widening divide of political polarization and...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 30, 2018 | Opinion
News of reprehensible things still shocks and unsettles most of us, as it should. I worry, though, that we are careening toward a national normlessness and undergoing a public desensitization, which will result in our merely noting, not decrying and crying over, awful...
