The Martin Marty Center’s Sightings post for today is a brilliant piece by Elizabeth Musselman on carbon offsets as the new “indulgences”–a mode of cheap grace that assuages guilt without requiring any change of lifestyle (sort of like the Bush plan to find new drugs for the American addiction to oil, rather than curtail the…
It seems to me that the President’s woefully inadequate proposal for “winning” in Iraq is like a band-aid on a severed jugular. And the logic of the “benchmarks” for Iraqis sounds remarkably similar to the vaunted moralisms of the “No Child Left Behind” Act translated into a foreign policy. The Council on Foreign Relations provides…
Two pieces for reflection: (1) the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent op-ed for The Times on the repercussions of American foreign policy for Christians in the middle east; and (2) Pope Benedict’s Christmas message. Come quickly, Prince of Peace.
On the last day of term I read this selection from W.H. Auden to my class. It is more properly what in Canada (or the UK) we would call a “Boxing Day” poem–an apres-Christmas reflection. But I’ll be away from my computer on Boxing Day, so thought I’d share it now: Well, so that is…
The World Institute for Development Economics Research has just released a new study on “The World Distribution of Household Wealth.” Unlike the measure of “income,” the measure of “wealth” considers household assets and resources. According to the findings of the study, “the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year…
Democrats hand weekly radio address to Jim Wallis. Gee, who would have guessed?