Posts tagged "violence"
Mediating Our Dead
By Rachel Wagner We have become incapable of sitting with tragedy and loss, and instantly seek to make order of it through media.
Daily Links: Big Fat Tolerance Edition
Russian gay extremists; Patronizing employers; A Brownback woman; Jesus' juice; Milquetoast Patel; Other, the world's 12th religion; Liberty wolves; ideology-smashing samaritan; Damn anarchists; Government by any other name (like the presidency); Tolerance ponies.
Religious Leadership and Violence Prevention after Tucson
by Joshua Stanton
This month, it became clear that Americans must do more to prevent violence. A congresswoman was shot in the head in what seems to have been a politically motivated assassination attempt – only surviving by luck or miracle. Six others have died and many more were wounded. our country is in a state...
Bloody Redemption
05 October 2005 By J.J. Helland Reviewers of David Cronenberg’s new film, A History of Violence have made much of the movie’s bloodshed as an adroit social commentary on America’s complicated obsession with violence and its linkage to sexual energy. But they’ve overlooked the thorny spiritual quest of the film’s protagonists. David Edelstein of Slate swooned over the film’s...
The Intimacy of Killing
20 June 2005 Bloodlust, says historian Joanna Bourke, is a civilized affair. By Jeff Sharlet (Originally published as “Revealing the Intimacy of the Most Gruesome Part of War” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 22, 1999). To start with, Joanna Bourke has never killed anyone. She has never even fired a gun, much less...
Daily Links 09 November 2004
Ashcroft & Evans To Pursue Solo Projects; Rummy Still With the Band John Ashcroft is done. So is Secretary of Commerce Don Evans. The left can be expected to crow about Ashcroft’s departure and ignore that of Evans — even though Ashcroft was never close to the President and is a member of the Assemblies...
