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Justice and Righteousnesss

January 22, 2013
Streets Versus Dreams
I was thinking about posting a new article but then I remembered this piece that I wrote. This article was originally published in a newsletter for the Ruth Institute a few years ago, but the content is still on target. Under President Obama, black unemployment is higher than it has been in over forty years. Because his inauguration followed so closely to Dr King's birthday, I wanted a little sepa

Ethics as Worship

May 17, 2013
Murder or Abortion: What’s the Difference?
CNN reported on a tragic story about a woman whose boyfriend tricked her into taking an abortion-inducing drug after she told him she was pregnant. The boyfriend, John Andrew Welden, is now facing first-degree murder charges for killing the unborn child. Welden told his girlfriend that his father, a doctor, had prescribed her an antibiotic […]

Law and the Created Order

May 11, 2013
Mother's Day in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage
The New Yorker is one of America’s oldest and most venerable magazines with a proud past stretching back to before the Great Depression. In its archives, a reader can find short stories, articles, and cartoons by such icons of American literature as E.B. White, James Thurber, John Updike, and J.D. Salinger. The most recognizable feature of the magazine is arguably its illustrated covers

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