A Catholic priest, Jacques Hamel, 85, was slain while celebrating mass in a small town in Normandy, France, on Tuesday morning. According to reports, the two men entered the church…
Pray For More Cookouts
On Sunday, police in Wichita, Kansas, came face-to-face with protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement—only this time their meeting wasn’t across barriers of conflict but around tables of conversation.…
PokeStops in Sacred Spaces
This week, the release of the new game PokemonGo tightened the bond between digitals natives and their smartphones. The free “augmented-reality” app uses the cell phone’s location and time, then…
Aiming for Justice
Just after midnight Tuesday morning, police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, shot and killed a black man during an altercation outside a convenience store. Alton Sterling died in the parking lot…
“Let’s get out of here”
Last Thursday, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. By a slim majority, Britain’s voters are opting to end their 43-year-old membership in the economic co-op—a move popularly…
“So we can live the way we’re made.”
Gun control laws have taken center stage in US politics after the mass shootings in Orlando on June 12. The debate over these laws stems from how we interpret the…
“Go and Do the Same”
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Omar Mateen entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, opened fire, and killed 49 people, injuring 53 more. The shooting is the deadliest…
Encountering the Greatest
Last Friday, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest athletes and most well-known personalities of the 20th century, died at age 74. In his 21 years of boxing, the unconventional fighter…
“I Created Him as Well as You”
On Saturday, Cincinnati Zoo officials shot and killed an endangered silverback gorilla in order to save a toddler who fell into the gorilla’s enclosure. The 3-year-old boy had allegedly been…
“The Last Word—A Glad Shout!”
Early last Thursday morning, EgyptAir Flight 804 was en route from Paris to Cairo when it disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea. Indications suggest that the Airbus A320, carrying…