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Book Review: The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy, Peter Gelderloos, Left Bank Books, 2013
2November 4, 2013 by Tariq Khan
Peter Gelderloos has written a handful of books and several essays, though he is probably best known for his provocative …
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History is Made by the Many: A response to Margaret Young’s “Shall We Protest?”
16September 10, 2013 by tristan savage
by Tristan Call Earlier today, Margaret Young published “Priesthood Restrictions – Shall We Protest?” on her blog on Patheos. She …
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LDS Sign Declaration Renouncing Wars!
14August 22, 2013 by Ron Madson
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal..”–Martin Luther King. A “Declaration Renouncing War” has been prepared for LDS members …
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“1/8th of an Inch”
74July 11, 2013 by Ron Madson
“1/8th of an Inch” “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have …
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“A Foot Washing Jesuit”
12April 1, 2013 by Ron Madson
“There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well” –Cloud …
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Cultivating Oppositional Critical Consciousness, Part II: the Failure of Mainstream Liberalism
2March 18, 2013 by Tariq Khan
This past Thursday, March 14, I went with my father to an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC …
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Jesse Jackson’s prayer at Hugo Chavez’s funeral
6March 10, 2013 by John-Charles Duffy
I would like it understood that I am very uncomfortable with the idolization of Hugo Chavez: as a general principle, …
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Pope & Prophets—-Filling the Shoes of a Fisherman
19March 7, 2013 by Ron Madson
POPES & PROPHETS—-Filling the Shoes of a Fisherman? …
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Cultivating Oppositional Critical Consciousness: Revisiting Edward Said
3February 27, 2013 by Tariq Khan
Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American intellectual and human rights activist best known for his classic 1979 book Orientalism. This …
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Christ Arrives in a Hot and Dying World: Part 1, The Stories We Tell
2February 8, 2013 by christopherpdavey
Those familiar with the jittering neo-communist philosopher Slavoj Zizek will note that in his recent book Living in the End …
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