Faith, Politics How Will the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Affect Religious Freedom? In 1946, at the point of Soviet NKVD guns, 216 priests of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church annulled the Union of The American Commons Posted on May 14, 2022
Faith Peacemaking in Ukraine and Beyond “If you can’t feed one hundred people, then just feed one.” - Mother Teresa “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be The American Commons Posted on April 30, 2022
Faith, Politics The Death Penalty Is an Assault on Human Dignity There is an abiding presence in Christian thought of the power of baptism. For one, most believe it “indelibly” marks the The American Commons Posted on April 16, 2022
Culture, Faith, Politics Martin Luther King Is More Relevant Than Ever If Martin Luther King hadn’t achieved a kind of secular sainthood by his death, I doubt he would be near-universally The American Commons Posted on March 26, 2022
Culture, Faith, Politics The Pro-Life Movement We Need But God set me apart from the time I was born. He showed me his grace by appointing me. - Galatians 1:15 * The term The American Commons Posted on March 19, 2022
Uncategorized “Everyone Will Sit Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree”: A Conversation With John Médaille and Alexander Salter About the Ukraine-Russia Conflict [Alexander Salter is the Georgie G. Snyder Associate Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech The American Commons Posted on March 12, 2022
Faith, Politics “Wars and Rumors of Wars”: A Conversation With David Koyzis About the Ukraine-Russia Conflict [David Koyzis is a Global Scholar with Global Scholars Canada and has a PhD in government and international studies from the The American Commons Posted on March 5, 2022
Faith, Politics Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: 8 Criteria by Which to Evaluate Its Injustice These eight criteria, honed and refined over thousands of years by ethicists, military leaders, and politicians, interlock The American Commons Posted on February 26, 2022
Culture, Faith The Isolation That Is Sabotaging Our Politics Is Also Literally Killing Us If you’re old enough, you might remember the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave. I do not. Because I was 13 months old. But you might. In The American Commons Posted on February 19, 2022