Tag: Justice
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Living Justly Amidst Moral Complexity
I’ve started a personal newsletter which, so far, I’ve been posting weekly. I’ve not yet figured out its connection to this blog, but something I wrote for it seems to fit here. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. I’m reading Andrew Delbanco’s fascinating The War Before The War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for…
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Who killed Eric Garner?
A few years ago a member of our church was arrested and spent the day in jail. A lifelong resident of the neighborhood, this Black man had been standing on a street corner with some friends when Chicago Police rolled up. Very quickly they had him against a wall before placing him in handcuffs and…
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Call the Evildoer to Account for His Wickedness
An alternative to Franklin Graham’s Special Day of Prayer.
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It is not light that is needed, but fire.
Frederick Douglass on telling the truth about injustice instead of protecting privileged sensibilities.
David W. Swanson 