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January 2015

January 12, 2015

“You Shouldn’t Say That…” as a gift, not an attack

I'm at The American Conservative today, talking about the legitimacy of campaigns for civility and condemnations (not de...

December 2014

December 10, 2014

Trapped by Torture in Enmity with the World

Reading over more details about the Torture Report, I was reminded of a passage I'd...

December 09, 2014

Torture Report Details Wounds to Prisoners and Guards

The torture report (well, the unclassified executive summary) came out today, and the news is...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

Endless War without a Proving Peace

My parish here in DC is very lucky because, now that the summer's over, we...

June 2014

June 01, 2014

“Love Unconcerned with Being Returned”

So far, when I've used Jen Fulwiler's Saint Generator to pick a saint to learn...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

For Now We Kill As Through A Glass, Darkly

Meanwhile. over at AmCon, I have a piece on the botched execution in Ohio, where...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Now we shoot through a screen, darkly

Via Mark Shea, Time has a lovely story about a German pilot who couldn't find...

October 2012

October 25, 2012

Why Won’t Candidates Run on This Life Issue?

This week, as part of Election Month at Patheos, the prompt for bloggers is: What...

October 04, 2012

Know Your Enemy

I've been introducing one of my housemates to Battlestar Galactica and we got into an argument...

October 03, 2012

Unarmed Prophets Stuck in a Chinese Room

I received a comped copy of Alone with a Jihadist through Speakeasy. Aaron Taylor spent seven hours arguing...

September 2012

September 06, 2012

If you can’t take the heat, turn into a tardigrade!

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" is a quote that is...

August 2012

August 10, 2012

Offering Loving Resistance [Sequence Index]

In July 2012, Patheos sent me a copy of Logan Mehl-Laituri's memoir Reborn on the...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

Brave Enough to Kill

The Pentagon is considering awarding Distinguished Warfare Medals to drone pilots and Glen Greenwald is...

July 16, 2012

What Can You Do in the War?

Given the way our discussion of pacifism has meandered over to a debate about martyrdom,...

July 13, 2012

And what did you win with your death?

There's a lot of interesting discussion happening in the comments of my post on...

July 11, 2012

A Martyr for All Seasons

Two weeks ago, I had an absolutely lovely time reading A Man for All Seasons...

July 07, 2012

“That his heels may kick at heaven”

Some time ago, Hemant Mehta asked "Where are the atheist fiction books?" and I was...

July 06, 2012

Can Lethal Resistance be Loving?

I quite enjoyed reading Logan Mehl-Laituri's Reborn on the 4th of July for the Patheos...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

No ‘Healthy Outlet’ for Bad Habits

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I'm one of...

May 2011

May 07, 2011

Yes, I only think in children’s books…

I ended up in a lot of conversations about forgiveness and whether hatred necessarily warps...

May 02, 2011

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he...

May 01, 2011

William Lane Craig and I (briefly) Agree!

P.Z. Myers has a post up lambasting Christian apologist William Lane Craig for his defense...

October 2010

October 09, 2010

Dirty Hands and Drone Strikes

This post is one in a series on sin and immortality. You can read the...