Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category

Everyday Justice and Lent

“Welcome, dear feast of Lent!” George Herbert, English country priest and poet wrote in Lent (1633). Last week, the western church entered the season of solemn preparation to remember Christ’s great sacrifice and victory over sin and death, and in a short while our eastern brothers and sisters...
February 23rd, 2010 | Book Reviews, Creation Care, Human Rights, Other, Religion, Social Justice | Read More

Garrison’s Legacy

The greatest challenge to the modern abolitionist movement isn’t the determination of slavers, or the threat of violence against those who would liberate slaves. It isn’t the ponderous, glacial pace of government action, or the corruption of policy through the sausage-making process of legislation...
January 4th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Human Rights, Social Justice | Read More

Peace as a Positive Virtue: As We Forgive

“If they told you that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if this time, they weren’t just releasing one, but forty thousand?” -A survivor of the Rwandan genocide As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda, Catherine Claire Larson’s...
August 10th, 2009 | Book Reviews, Culture, Human Rights, Media, Other | Read More

Instructions for Living Gently in a Violent World

Books that promise to radically change the way I see the world make me skeptical. Living Gently in a Violent World was no different, except insofar as that it actually did. Living Gently is a release by InterVarsity Press in their ongoing series “Resources for Reconciliation,” which addresses...
July 28th, 2009 | Abortion, Book Reviews, Culture, Human Rights, Media, Moral Philosophy, Religion, Reproductive Technologies | Read More

A Parting of the Ways

President Obama has poured billions of tax dollars into a government take-over of the Auto Industry.  Fair Enough.  He is pushing through a Socialist agenda for a national healthcare system, which will effectively strip us of our options with regard to our medical care, while simultaneously creating...
June 18th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, RML, Social Justice | Read More

A Time for Silence

President Obama should not speak in support of the Iranians protesting the recent presidential elections.  In fact, no US official, in power or out of it, should publicly support them. First, it’s redundant.  Is there any doubt that anyone in Iran (much less, the world) knows whose side the Americans...
June 18th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, RML, Rights Reason & Religion, Social Justice | Read More

Buying the End of Slavery

Most of us support slavery: our purchases feed the black market of human trafficking.  It’s not just something from movies like Blood Diamond.  Most of us who purchase goods produced by slave labor do it in the proud name of frugality.  We’re always seeking a good deal, and we boast in...
June 2nd, 2009 | Human Rights, Other, Social Justice | Read More

Calling All Abolitionists

When Bethany Hoang (now director of the International Justice Mission Institute) turned in papers on modern slavery for her seminary classes, her professors docked points from her grades for lying.  Eventually she learned to bring in stacks of reports from the CIA and the U.S. State Department to back...
May 16th, 2009 | Human Rights, Other, The Gospel | Read More

Israel, Hamas, and the looter mentality

On January 10, 2009, a rally swept along Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Though billed as a “pro-Palestine” rally, in reality, it was far more anti-Israel and anti-America than anything else. I went with a group of fellow bloggers from the Heading Right station on www.BlogTalkRadio.com....
January 14th, 2009 | Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Judaism | Read More