My Christian CLE Perspective: Absolute Nonviolence Across the Issues
by Julia Smucker Editor’s Note: There are of course a wide variety of Christian perspectives, and we had a different one last week. We also welcome perspectives from a variety of religions, as listed at the bottom, and invite people to share theirs with us. I am a baptized Mennonite and confirmed Catholic, and my…
The Consistent Life Ethic: My Christian Perspective
by Father Jim Hewes Editor’s Note: There are of course a wide variety of Christian perspectives, and we have a different one coming up for next week’s post. We also welcome perspectives from a variety of religions, as listed at the bottom, and invite people to share theirs with us. I understand the Consistent…
Wasting Money on Instruments of Death: Nuclear Weapons in the 2022 Budget
by John Whitehead The Biden administration’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2022 contains much to disturb peace activists. The budget continues the long-standing pattern of grotesquely large military spending, with $715 billion allocated to the Defense Department. Further, the budget specifically continues to fund lavishly the most extreme instruments of death, nuclear weapons. Peace activists…
A Daunting Disadvantage for the Pro-Life Side
by Acyutananda (see author’s blog) Of all the consistent pro-life policies or political positions, I have always chosen to focus my own efforts most on the anti-abortion position. This is partly because numerically legal abortion normally accounts for vastly more human-rights violations than say, capital punishment or unjust war. It is also because only anti-abortion…
Peas of the Same Pod
by Elena Muller Garcia, M.A. in Religious Studies About ten years ago one of my co-workers approached my desk and began to address me by saying: “Did you see those illegals — ” I stopped him abruptly midsentence. “Calling undocumented immigrants ‘illegals’ is the same as calling the unborn child a ‘fetus’. Both terms…
The Consistent Peace Ethic
by Rachel MacNair The Consistent Life Network names its e-newsletter Peace & Life Connections. We make a big point of covering peace issues as the same as life issues and life issues being the same as peace issues. We dislike the political red/blue divide that pits “peace” and “life” against each other in terms of…
Encouraging Words That Require Action: Comments on the Geneva Summit
by John Whitehead President Biden met, for the first time since his inauguration, Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva. While the summit meeting didn’t produce any dramatic breakthroughs in US-Russian relations, it did provide some encouraging signs. The two countries’ joint statement, released after the summit, contained an important declaration on the…
The Cure for Headache
by AcyutanandaCut off your head to be rid ofAll those pounds of ugly fat!Can’t you find any betterSolution than that?“Got to end this endless war,”Said President Truman,So he pulled out all the stops,Did something inhuman.Tony Timpa got excitable(It was cocaine self-pollution),So they arrested his cardiac,Called it conflict resolution.Your child was inside of you,I know you…
The Case for Abortion as the “Preeminent Priority”
by Fr. Jim Hewes Top Ten Reasons Wars killed over 100 million people in the last century. It took a hundred years to reach that number. The United Nations estimates 45-50 million abortion each year, so it would take only two or three years of abortions to surpass that number. The brutal reality is that…
A Cold War Comes Home? Anti-Asian Racism in Light of US-China Hostility
by John Whitehead Racism against Americans of Asian heritage has received significant attention recently. Concerns about anti-Asian hate crimes arose last spring as the Covid-19 pandemic began to affect the United States. The horrifying murders of eight people, six of them Asian, in the greater Atlanta area in March 2021 revived concerns about bigotry toward…