Uvalde, Abortion, and the Limits of Compassion
by John MurdockGun rights advocates and abortion rights advocates should both mourn the loss of life engendered by their absolutist approaches to their political causes. Continue Reading »
The Children Who Kill Children
by Samuel D. JamesAn inability to talk about anything other than gun control threatens to deaden our lament and neutralize a vital conversation about why so many of our country’s most lost, most hateful people are boys with their whole lives ahead of them. Continue Reading »
Mass Shootings and Émile Durkheim
by John WatersThe pattern of mass shootings may be a symptom of a suicidal culture. Continue Reading »
Death at Tree of Life
by Gerald McDermottWe should regard an attack on Jews as an attack on our spiritual cousins, God’s beloved people who gave us our Messiah and salvation. Continue Reading »
Permission to Kill
by R. R. RenoOur first reaction is a benumbed sadness. Seventeen dead in a Florida school, shot by a disturbed young man. Then we search for explanations. The killer suffers from mental illness. Like so many others, he is from a broken home. Guns are too readily available. The media frenzy makes the shooter into . . . . Continue Reading »
Attacking the Ties that Bind
by Wesley J. SmithOur problem isn’t too many or too few guns; it's a culture of automated technology that threatens to destroy human interconnectivity. Continue Reading »
Remembering Robert Wood
by Laura MarsanI am at a Labor Day cookout in Finneytown, Ohio, and all the food has been eaten. Kids run around the yard playing a messy game of tee-ball as the sun dips below the horizon. Fluorescent pink plastic balls and bats fly everywhere. The adults sit lazily, and talk turns from mild state-of-the-nation . . . . Continue Reading »
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