Author: John B. Chilton

Angry. Young. Men.

Lisa Miller has written a provocative column for New York Magazine dilating on the fact that whatever their motives and whatever their mental conditions, the

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A sermon to dedicate a marathon

But we are not here to play it safe.

We are not here to enclose ourselves in a portable metal bunker.

We are not here to wield weapons that maim and destroy.

We are here to take risks. We are here to take risks for the sake of life, for the sake of hope, for the sake of healing.

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Scottish Episcopal Church

The Doctrine Committee of The Scottish Episcopal Church has published Marriage and Human Intimacy: Perspectives on same-sex relationships and the life of the church. It

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Non-partisan panel: US engaged in torture post-9/11

The New York Times reports: A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.

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Boston backstory: the man in the cowboy hat

Tasneem Raja of Mother Jones has the story of one of the heroes of the finish line. Carlos Arredondo–the man with the cowboy hat–lived a life scarred by violence and anguish, event before the bombs went off.

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