by jpitney | Jul 14, 2024 | Reagan, Religion, Violence
Tuesday, March 31, 1981 Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breathe it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn’t ask for Gods help while at the...
by jpitney | Mar 12, 2024 | Civility, Religion
by jpitney | Jan 15, 2024 | Civil Rights, Religion
In Why We Can’t Wait, Dr. King reproduced a form by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, the Birmingham Affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Fred Shuttlesworth, President. I HEREBY PLEDGE MYSELF- MY PERSON AND MY BODY- TO THE...
by jpitney | Dec 25, 2023 | Civility, Religion
E.J. Dionne at WP: Okay, maybe I’m getting soupy and sentimental at Christmastime. (It’s a weakness I have.) I’d agree we cannot wish away the deep and fundamental conflicts of this moment or the need to battle for democratic values. But if we can’t ponder a different...
by jpitney | Dec 11, 2023 | Donald Trump, Immigration, Religion
“Our religion” in Utah: LDS, Evangelical/Mainline/Black Protestant, Catholic, Jehovah’s Witness, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, “nones”, and other world religions. I’ve met and worshipped with almost all of them and I love them. https://t.co/yMHh4f9FHJ...
by jpitney | May 11, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Religion
George Weigel at First Things: As of May 15, Catholic journalists around the world will be able to count one of their number among the saints, as Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1942, is canonized in St. Peter’s Square. At...