by Nathan Napier | Jun 13, 2022 | Opinion
A lone human standing motionless in front of a row of armored tanks is the image on the cover of Thomas Slater’s Revelation as Civil Disobedience (Abingdon Press, 2019) The cover design is prescient, as is Slater’s observation that “Christians are to put their faith...
by Ken Sehested | Dec 21, 2021 | Opinion
Advent is a season of great longing, specifically for those longing “from below” of history’s malignant dominion. The longing is a revolutionary one, however, and frightening to those in charge, who have much to lose if existing hierarchies are breached. Such anxiety...
by Ken Sehested | Feb 20, 2020 | Opinion
What should you do when your grandchild’s Sunday school teacher is arrested? It’s not what you think. (The arrest.) Nothing salacious or seedy here. My friend BJ was handcuffed for committing an act of civil disobedience to call attention to our worsening climate...
by Sean McKenzie | Jan 9, 2019 | Opinion
The immigration debate has become maddeningly difficult in our current political era. In order to make any headway, immigrant advocates must overcome the seeming simplicity and very real indignation of those who ask with exasperation, “What part of ‘illegal’ do you...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Feb 12, 2013 | Opinion
Why do men like President Assad of Syria prefer to rule over rubble than surrender power? Arrogance in politics is compounded of ignorance, willful blindness and fantasies of invincibility. And when entire societies prostrate themselves before such arrogant rulers,...
