One thing that has always puzzled me as a Protestant, as a theological descendant of Calvin and Luther, of Ursinus and Olevianus, is the irrational commitment of American Christians to the idea of what I like to call morally neutral …
Land of the free and home of the brave. These words were distilled into me at a young age; almost like the dogma of the twentieth century. We had our democracy and never left home without it. The problem, it …
Having enjoyed the Pax Americana, we have come to associate our right of belief with the right to demand that others bend their wills to ours; that freedom only exists within our own particular ideological and cultural hegemonies. Our insistence …
What happens when a society begins to stop merely celebrating diversity and cherishing cultural pluralism and starts to cherish pluralism itself, presenting diversity for diversities sake as virtuous?
Perhaps I’m simply amused by those individuals who seem to associate progress …
Neoliberalism and American Exceptionalism: They’ll win if it kills you
Today, about 50 million Americans exist everyday without healthcare coverage. To put that in perspective, that’s more than the population of California and roughly equal to the population of England. Let that sink in a moment, equal to the entire …