Uvalde, Abortion, and the Limits of Compassion

by John Murdock

Gun rights advocates and abortion rights advocates should both mourn the loss of life engendered by their absolutist approaches to their political causes. Continue Reading »

3 Jun 2022

The Children Who Kill Children

by Samuel D. James

An inability to talk about anything other than gun control threatens to deaden our lament and neutralize a vital conversation about why so many of our country’s most lost, most hateful people are boys with their whole lives ahead of them.  Continue Reading »

27 May 2022

Mass Shootings and Émile Durkheim

by John Waters

The pattern of mass shootings may be a symptom of a suicidal culture.  Continue Reading »

27 Aug 2019

Death at Tree of Life

by Gerald McDermott

We should regard an attack on Jews as an attack on our spiritual cousins, God’s beloved people who gave us our Messiah and salvation.  Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

Permission to Kill

by R. R. Reno

Our first reaction is a benumbed sadness. Seventeen dead in a Florida school, shot by a disturbed young man. Then we search for explanations. The killer suffers from mental illness. Like so many others, he is from a broken home. Guns are too readily available. The media frenzy makes the shooter into . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2018

Attacking the Ties that Bind

by Wesley J. Smith

Our problem isn’t too many or too few guns; it's a culture of automated technology that threatens to destroy human interconnectivity. Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2017

Remembering Robert Wood

by Laura Marsan

I am at a Labor Day cookout in Finneytown, Ohio, and all the food has been eaten. Kids run around the yard playing a messy game of tee-ball as the sun dips below the horizon. Fluorescent pink plastic balls and bats fly everywhere. The adults sit lazily, and talk turns from mild state-of-the-nation . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2000