My Thomist Epiphany at a Same-Sex Wedding
Maybe it’s strange to think about political theology at a wedding ceremony. But political theology was on my mind a few years ago, when I attended the wedding of a same-sex couple in my extended...
View ArticleFred Phelps and the Traditionless Right
It is hard to find a sympathetic response to Fred Phelps’s death. Since the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church died last week, most of the commentaries that I have encountered—both online and in...
View ArticleA Response to Scott Paeth’s Complication of Reinhold Niebuhr on Race
Part of the frustration of reading Niebuhr on racial injustice comes from the fact that, as Paeth says, Niebuhr failed to support black liberation and empowerment at the precise moments when the logic...
View ArticleClass, Race, and Democratic Life: How to Read Niebuhr in 2016
As we inch toward the presidential elections of 2016, crawling through a seemingly endless desert of soundbites, debates, and TV advertisements, we would do well to step back and revisit Reinhold...
View ArticleClass, Race, and Democratic Life: How to Read Niebuhr in 2016 (Part 2)
Along with its emphasis on Niebuhr’s attention to capitalism’s anti-democratic tendencies, this collection also shows that he was concerned about racial justice. His career as an advocate of racial...
View Article“Natural Law” Arguments Against Same Sex Marriage Break Down In Face of...
In their dissenting opinions in Obergefell v. Hodges, Justices Roberts and Scalia lamented the way in which the Supreme Court’s ruling would close off public debate about same-sex marriage. That...
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