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June 2016

June 20, 2016

The Tony-Winning Guide To Temptation And Grace

Last Sunday, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton won 11 well-deserved Tony Awards, and, last week, I wrote an...

August 2014

August 07, 2014

What’s the Difference between Forgiveness and Self-Deception?

An atheist friend of mine recently posted the following question to Facebook (and gave me...

June 2014

June 15, 2014

The Merry Merchant and the Sad Antonio

Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing the closing night performance of The Merchant of...

June 12, 2014

The School Where Bullies Ask for Help

The American Prospect has a beautiful feature on a high school that started trying out...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Prisoners are Calling. Who’s Answering?

Today, I'm over at First Things to talk about prisons, communities, and cell phones. Until cellphones made...

April 15, 2014

On Palm Sunday, Blood Will Have Blood

On Palm Sunday in Catholic churches, the Passion narrative is read aloud. The whole congregation...

April 13, 2014

A Lens on Killing and Forgiveness

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, and, over at The New York...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

Forgiving is Not Endorsing

Before he passed away, Pope John Paul II entrusted a number of his personal letters...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

Waiting for Enemies to Die

There's an expression I've heard in the gay rights movement as a kind of rallying...

January 17, 2013

What Do We Owe All the Valjeans?

Since Les Mis seems to prompt endless reprises on this blog, you won't be surprised...

January 06, 2013

The Criminal Justice System, Touched by Radical Forgiveness

In today's NYT Magazine, there's an amazing story about forgiveness and the criminal justice system. Conor...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Three Stories of Forgiveness

I have a collection of strange tags in my google reader clippings system ("drones," "mary...

November 2012

November 12, 2012

The Day After Veterans Day

Veterans Day occurred yesterday in the U.S. It's a federal holiday for the recognition of...

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 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...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

7 Quick Takes (3/30/12)

--- 1 --- If you're coming here from Conversion Diary, I really recommend you take...

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...

October 2011

October 14, 2011

7 Quick Takes (10/14/11)

--- 1 --- I've been blogging here at Patheos for a week now, and these...

August 2011

August 25, 2011

Brokenness and Privilege

If you're not too familiar with 'privilege' or usually don't like when people use it,...

August 01, 2011

The ‘Obvious’ Consequence

In my last two posts about Jenifer Fulwiler’s controversial piece for the National Catholic...

June 2011

June 09, 2011

Trying to Love My Enemies

Just a cautionary note: trying to figure out how to love your enemies is something...

June 09, 2011

“So they feel as scared and hurt as I do”

Discussion of the appropriate use of mockery has twisted back into the ongoing discussion about...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

Sam Harris, Psychopaths, and Moral Culpability

Sam Harris is blogging about morality and free will, and one of his examples puts...

May 17, 2011

No Victimless Sins?

When I wrote about my dilemma on how to deal with an Orthodox Jewish girl trying...

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...