BY GARY EDMONDSON Glen Huber got me good. It was 1960. Our fifth grade class was going to have a mock presidential election – Kennedy/Nixon. Glen’s family was one of the few Catholic families in our small Indiana town. Our teacher asked for any endorsing speeches. Glen stood up and opened by saying, “I’m not going…
BY NYLA ALI KHAN On Sunday I decided to push myself to step out of my comfort zone even more than I usually do. So I made the effort to go to Temple B’nai Israel in order to engage with the multireligious and mutilracial group of 22 Oklahomans who traveled to a tumultuous part of…
BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES A global rise in fascism and other forms of nationalistic authoritarianism is a rather predictable phenomenon in a world moving towards ecological and economic collapse caused by an extractivist capitalism that is unsustainable for both people and the planet. As the world economy becomes more and more unstable and as our…
BY GARY EDMONDSON God’s Own Party continues to demonstrate its ambivalence toward the Christian principles its members wield against political opponents while pursuing their enrich-the-rich agenda. Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan forced House Chaplain Patrick Conroy to resign after mounting pressure from his GOP colleagues, upset because Conroy dared to remind Greed’s Own Party of…
BY SUSAN ESTRICH It was Associate Justice Elena Kagan, former solicitor general, former Harvard Law School dean and brilliant liberal, who raised the question during last week’s United States Supreme Court argument on the latest travel ban. It’s the same question I used to raise with my students whenever they jumped too quickly to the conclusion that…
