Category: justice
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jeff swartz on loving your neighbor
On Tuesday morning I read an interesting interview in Fast Company with Jeff Swartz, CEO of Timberland. Apparently Swartz has been a significant advocate for workers’ rights, recently cutting ties with a manufacturer in China for repeated human rights abuses. Here’s how he responded to a question about the “don’t ask don’t tell” circle between…
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christian faith and the election (4)
This is part four of this series of posts by some friends answering this question: In what ways does your faith in Christ impact how you think about and engage with the upcoming presidential election? See the introduction for more info. Also check out part one, part two and part three. I think I was…
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the new friars
Scott Bessenecker doesn’t mince words in his 2006 book, The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World’s Poor. Never have there been thousands of people dying because they are dangerously overfed sharing the planet with billions who are dying because they cannot get enough calories to sustain life. (41) In this book Bessenecker is…
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some questions about “demographic inversion”
Alan Ehrenhalt has a thought provoking article, Trading Places: The Demographic Inversion of the American City, in the current issue of The New Republic. Chicago dwellers will find added interest as our city features prominently in Ehrenhalt’s examples of the demographic inversion (a phrase he likes better than the more common “gentrification”) that he claims…
David W. Swanson 