Growing up in West Texas, I was accustomed to conservative Christianity from a very young age. Not necessarily a doctrinal conservatism; most Christians I knew...
Peace & Justice
Rachel Swarns is a journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at New York University. Around 1676, Ann Joice landed in the British colony of...
Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far-Right By Mary Jo McConahay (Melville House, 2023) Some conservative Catholics like to disparage social...
In June the U.S. Supreme Court struck down what had been considered a sacrosanct civil rights achievement, ruling affirmative action programs at Harvard...
The Second Amendment, adopted in 1791, justified replacing a standing army with properly controlled civilian militias responsible for defending certain...
This World Youth Day, I went with a group of pilgrims that waved a pride flag amid a sea of nation flags. I was part of a group of eight people who went to...
Archeologists in Alicante, Spain have turned to drone technology to safely reach caves that would otherwise have required a death-defying trek by intrepid...
Some people believe that the U.S. government is conducting research into UFOs at Area 51 or that the CIA was behind the assassination of President John F...
On March 15, Brian Rodenas, a prison inmate in Rhode Island, wrote a note to his mom from “your favorite son.” “I hope you’re doing good. I got in trouble so...
