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Climate Despair and Our Death Wish
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Climate Despair and Our Death Wish

January 20, 2022 | By Sharla Moody BK ‘22

Water surges past the Statue of Liberty’s waist, empties into the crowded rush hour streets of Manhattan. Cars, trucks, and buses surf on the wall of filthy water bearing down on terrified bystanders. The sky erupts with hail the size of basketballs, indiscriminately falling on people frantically running to take shelter. Enormous tornados engulf entire skyscrapers in Los Angeles, spitting rubble down onto screaming bystanders, the carnage raining down beyond any Old Testament judgment.

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Witness in the Atomic Age: In Memory of Sister Megan Rice
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Witness in the Atomic Age: In Memory of Sister Megan Rice

November 19, 2021 | By Stephen McNulty MY ‘25

In 2013, an eighty-three-year-old nun stood before a court facing an odd charge — the year prior, she had broken into a Tennessee nuclear site, in what was perhaps the largest security breach in US atomic history. She and her collaborators were part of the Plowshares movement, a pacifist Christian movement infamous for direct action against US nuclear facilities. Their goal, as it were, was to beat the swords of the military-industrial complex into plowshares, as alluded to in the Book of Isaiah:

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What Christians Can Learn From (And Bring To) Mutual Aid
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What Christians Can Learn From (And Bring To) Mutual Aid

October 31, 2021 | By Shayley Martin DC ‘22

More and more nonprofits are questioning the charity model because it suggests a big power imbalance: wealthy donors versus poor recipients. Since charities rely on donors, they have to guard against valuing donors’ interests more highly than the needs of the people they want to help.

And they don’t always succeed.

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