by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jul 21, 2025 | Opinion
Lying to save lives is a virtue blessed by God. Think of the two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, who lied to the Pharaoh. When the Pharaoh implemented an edict to kill all boys born to the Hebrews, the midwives instead sheltered and saved them. When questioned,...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jun 17, 2025 | Faith and Democracy|Feature|Opinion, Opinion
In Michel Foucault’s groundbreaking 1975 book, “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison,” he explored how those who violated the laws of the royal sovereign were subject to torture as a form of punishment. Reform meant the goal of punishment had to evolve from...
by Craig Nash | Jun 12, 2025 | Opinion
Early immigrants to the United States sought to build a nation governed by laws—not by royalty or religious dogma. In Donald Trump, proponents of the Seven Mountain Mandate, a dominionist movement to establish Christian supremacy in all areas of society, have found a...
by Craig Nash | Jun 3, 2025 | Opinion
Like their work to narrowly define the idea of family, the U.S. K-12 education system is a sphere of influence that Seven Mountain Mandate (7MM) adherents have spent decades chipping away at, carving it into their Christian-supremacist vision of the world. (Their...
by Donald Williams | May 21, 2025 | Faith and Democracy|Opinion, Opinion
The rise of the second Trump regime has included unprecedented assaults against African American culture and history. Information about famous African Americans has been made less prominent on the Arlington Cemetery website. Gen. Charles Quinton Brown, an African...
