As all of America mourns the deaths which occurred on the Virginia Tech campus, bloggers are drawing comparisons to the body count that issues daily from Iraq.
Tag: America
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, by David L. Holmes
We are victims of the Chinese curse. We live in interesting times—or at least polarized times. Differing opinions have gravitated to the poles of a left–right axis, first in politics, then bleeding over into our religious discourse until, at least in some public debates, it has become impossible to discern which discursive practice is driving our disputes.
DOD Unveils the Heat-Beam
Yesterday, at the Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, the U.S. Department of Defence revealed a prototype of a heat–beam weapon which it plans to place in the hands of troops by 2010.
Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak
This is a collection of pieces by Islamic women living in the United States. Their stories reflect a diversity of experience—from growing up within the tradition-laden strictures of immigrant families, to afro-american women who are children and grandchildren of Nation of Islam founders.
The Terror of America
Since there is a war on terrorism, has anyone bothered to ask how we will know when we’ve won? What will winning look like? Will it be an interminable peace where people sit around gazing at their navels, sometimes getting up to wander through beds of roses?
Quitters Are Winners Too
Conventional wisdom—at least in North America—holds that persistence is a virtue: “if at first you don’t succeed” and all that. We marvel at those who single-mindedly pursue their dreams and, after overcoming countless obstacles, finally get to roll in their success like pigs in mud. But recent thinking from the nascent field of evolutionary medicine turns conventional wisdom on its head.
Progressive Christians Speak, ed. John Cobb Jr
The book has 16 chapters each devoted to a distinct social justice issue. These issues fall into two broad categories: 1) domestic concerns such as religion and public schools, abortion, and the penal system; and 2) concerns arising from the global economy such as corporate responsibility, debt relief and environmentalism.
The FCC and Obscenity
We can all rest easier now that the Federal Communications Commission of the United States of America is authorized to enforce new legislation designed to return the living room of America back to the family! However did we manage without them?