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• Gun Legislation Won’t Do It; We Need a Twelve-step Program

  

  By Alan BeanAmerica has a gun problem, but gun control legislation is too weak a fix; we need a 12-step program.Since the tragic shootings in Newtown CT, we hav... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 205K Deported Parents Separated from Their Children in Just Two Years

  

  By Alan BeanAmericans don’t agree on issues like abortion and gun rights, but most sentient citizens understand that kids need to be with their parents and... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Rachel Weeps for Her Children

  

  By Charles KikerDecember, 2012We have been assaulted, insulted, and sickened by the deaths of innocent children in recent days. It was not the first incidence o... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Nolan: Why is the BOP So Stingy with Compassionate Release?

  

  Pat Nolan’s Justice Fellowship is part of the Prison Fellowship organization created by the late Charles Colson. They are concerned with issues such as: Prison... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Winkler: The Secret History of Guns

  

  Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA law school, wrote this piece for the Atlantic in September of 2011. The National Rifle Association has... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Dobson and Huckabee Go Over to the Darkside

  

  By Alan BeanThe Sandy Hook tragedy has sparked deep reflection nationwide.  President Obama served as Pastor in Chief when he prefaced his remarks in Newtown... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Rachel Held Evans: “God Can’t Be Kept Out”

  

  This reflection from Rachel Held Evans originally appeared on her website.Those little Advent candles sure have a lot of darkness to overcome this year. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Re-Imagine Justice!

  

  Dr. Alan Bean participates in a gathering of faith groups dedicated to ending mass incarceration.“Nobody else out there does what you do. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Connecticut Shooting Rampage Could Be the Worst Yet

  

  By Alan BeanA shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school this morning has left 27 people dead, 18 of them children.What is there to say? Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• ICE Officials Say They Were Just Doing Their Jobs

  

  By Alan BeanTwo Latino parents were arrested in Detroit on Tuesday morning as they dropped their children off at school.  Immigrant rights groups are outraged. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• DC Exoneration Raises Painful Questions

  

  Sentae TribbleBy Alan BeanSantae Tribble spent 28 years in prison for killing a Washington DC cab driver.   Prosecutors knew they had the right man because FBI... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Catching Stones for Jesus, Bryan Stevenson

  

  By Alan Bean Bryan Stevenson dedicated himself to defending death row inmates after the justice-evangelicalism he imbibed at Eastern College collided with the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gross Inequality

  

  By Charles Kiker “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ill Fares the Land

  

  By Charles Kiker Ill fares the land To hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates And men decay. Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” (1730-1774) Here... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Is the “fiscal Cliff” Debate a Proxy for a Conversation About Race?

  

  By Alan Bean Are we talking about the “fiscal cliff” because we are afraid to talk about race?  Imara Jones of Colorlines thinks so. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Senator Durbin Highlights the Story of Friends of Justice Intern, Pierre...

  

  By Alan Bean Senator Dick Durbin wanted to dramatize the need for getting serious about the DREAM act,  so he used the story of Friends of Justice intern, Pierr... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Crossing the Border Without Papers

  

  Posted by Pierre Berastain What if the person crossing the border had been a Latin American? What if the person had not been white? It seems to me that no amoun... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Mississippi School System Slammed by DOJ Report

  

  By Alan Bean This article from Colorlines is based on a Department of Justice report on Meridian, Mississippi’s school to prison pipeline  released in August. Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Despite Evidence From Discredited Medical Examiner, Mississippi Man Nears...

  

  Radley Balko is one of the few independent journalists in America who will cover egregious cases of injustice the mainstream media ignores. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• In Memoriam: Lawrence Guyot

  

  Lawrence Guyot By Alan Bean I first learned about Lawrence Guyot from reading Taylor Branch’s celebrated Trilogy on the King Years.  His name came up again... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY