Over the last week, thousands of Palestinians, Jews, and internationals protested the illegal and inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoners. 800 Palestinian prisoners declared a one-day fast in protest of Israel’s detention policies, an act of solidarity with four men who continue an ongoing hunger strike calling an end to the unjust detention of Palestinians without […]
Jimmy Fulmer used to frequent the Co-op for lunch on a daily basis. He was quiet and kept to himself. I didn’t know him very well, I just knew who he was. After his death, I contemplated that I really only knew him through his quiet demeanor and physical addictions. If I were to die, […]
I just picked up a collection of sermons by St. Basil the Great from the Popular Patristic Series put out by St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. This is the first collection of St. Basil’s work particularly dedication to Social Justice in the English language; hence the title On Social Justice. In the coming weeks, I will be […]
As a Christian, I am increasingly aware of the all things that aren’t God but that we tend to worship nonetheless. On the top of this list of idolatry is the place of the nation-state. We know with our hearts and minds that the United States is not God, but I don’t think we’ve learned […]
During Pres. Obama’s first year in office, he testified that Reinhold Niebuhr was his favorite theologian. R. Niebuhr is of course famous, in part, because of his writings on “Christian Realism.” I am under the impression that the vast majority of American Christians live under the Christian Realist moniker without ever having heard of Reinhold […]
On July 24, 2010 I traveled with a group of peacemakers to the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib. Located just north of Beer-Sheva in the Negev Desert, the Bedouin are indigenous Arabs with Israeli citizenship. Forced off their land in 1948, many returned in the mid-1950’s only to be relocated to a restricted area called the […]