This Tuesday Goldman Sachs executives will go before the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. A string of indicting emails have been revealed by the S.E.C. and the Subcommittee charging that Goldman fraudulently intended to mislead investors on risks (bets) related to mortgage-backed securities. The S.E.C. is charging that Goldman created and marketed securities that were [...]
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Guest Author, Mike Swain: Short Confession of a UTS Catholic
Union Theological Student Mike Swain offers some reflections on being Catholic at UTS.
Bemoaning The Loss of Exclusivity
Today the Supreme Court will hear a case that will determine whether colleges and universities can deny official status and subsidies to student groups that bar homosexuals and other groups from membership. At the heart of this case… you guessed it, a Christian organization that denies membership to LGBTQ persons and “those who advocate or [...]
Rethinking Military Spending
Can we argue the ethics of the military from an economic standpoint? David McCandless’s data visualizations point out some difficulties in that line of thinking.
Re: Glenn Beck
Maybe its the longer warmer days that have me in more amicable spirits, but I couldn’t find a spark of anger when I heard Glenn Beck’s latest protest, encouraging people to leave churches that promote social justice — which all mainline churches do. You know, Peter, I want to thank Glenn Beck more than scourge [...]
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck, ultraconservative infotainer and TV host, has recently decided that “social justice” is a code word for fascism. When I first heard this news, I couldn’t believe it was not a headline from the satirical newspaper The Onion. What tortured and specious logic could he possibly employ to literally link Adolf Hitler to Archbishop [...]
The religious aspect of health care
There certainly has been a lot of debate in the media over health care. While one could argue about a deontological claim to health insurance vs. a natural rights claim to health and welfare vs. a social contract theory vs. well… you get the picture. One thing that isn’t explored as much is the role [...]
Re: Cage Match Christology
Peter – Hard words for some hard (bodied) Christians. First, I have to take offense that you would use that picture of my father in his twenties to represent your tough guy Jesus. Not cool. I guess I’m just enamored with the simultaneous concretizing and exaggerating that’s happening here. We use the word “fighting” pretty [...]
Cage Match Christology
On February 1, the New York Times reported on an apparently growing segment of the nondenominational Christian world: mixed martial arts bouts. This is not to say that they’ve noticed very muscly men with Christian tattoos climbing into the ring. Rather, this is the story of how some congregations are using mixed martial arts (MMA) [...]
A Priest or A Soldier
The re-boot of the early 1980s TV show “V” has caused me to ponder the role of ordained ministers in violent conflict and the singularity of homo sapiens as special creations of God.