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2020 vision: A homily for the Advent season

December 3, 2019 By Dan Wright

Swords into plowshares.

‘By the Grace of God’: Film skewers pedophile priests in France

October 17, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Despite some small criticisms, it’s a riveting “spiritual” thriller that takes no “liberties with the facts,” according to the director.

‘Emanuel’ recounts tragic 2015 murders in Charleston and radical Christian forgiveness

October 11, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The tragic incident on June 17, 2015, blazed to the top of the news: A 21-year-old white supremacist named Dylan Roof calmly entered the door to Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Jewish Americans and Israel/Palestine: Pressures and fissures heading toward 2020

September 30, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

The idea of a return to Biblical Zion has been perverted into an idolization of land acquisition by any means in Israel, but Jewish Americans don't want to be pressured into complicity with Israel’s deeds.

San Jose churches and synagogues get set to fight racist mass incarceration

September 23, 2019 By Henry Millstein

The workshop was led by Sophia Jackson, a candidate for ordination as a minister who knows the criminal "justice" system inside out—literally. She was incarcerated for eight years.