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The Conservative Christian Case for Single-Payer Healthcare
Caring for one another’s bodies, particularly the bodies of the vulnerable, is one of the most profound ways we can fulfill our duty to each other. The simple fact...
Green Card Holders in the City of Man
Many commentators on both right and left agree that President Trump’s recent executive order temporarily banning refugee resettlement and immigration from certain countries was an incompetently written and poorly...
Q and A for People Who Hate the Benedict Option
Scene: A small cafe in a coastal urban city. BOB, a boring old believer, and his friend BEN are sipping their coffees as the autumn breeze ruffles the collars...
Faith, Fatalism, and Freddie Gray
One recent day at the Baltimore clinic where I care for the homeless, I spoke with a patient about the death of Freddie Gray. He prefaced his thoughts—as many people...
