American Limits

Apr 26, 2022

Listening to Reinhold Niebuhr

A 1966 photo of my class’s meeting with Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary when I was a student in Beverly Wildung Harrison’s...

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Aug 11, 2021

Prosperity and Justice

Is justice necessary for prosperity or can we aim for prosperity now and leave justice for later? Can the good crowd out the right? If...

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Apr 13, 2021

Biden’s Mistake

Ok, I’m not sure, Biden is certainly better than Trump. Still, it seems like President Biden has not made the voting rights bills his...

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Sep 1, 2020

What Happens When Fear Encounters Justice?

Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” That was in 1933, at the depth of the Depression, and he...

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May 26, 2020

Farm loyalty and Meat processing Plants

When I was a kid on our family farm in Nebraska, my brother and I made sure that my calf would grow up to become a well-fed cow. Raising...

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Apr 14, 2020

Creating a Climate of Justice and Limiting American prosperity

If there is one thing we must, absolutely must, learn from this epidemic is how to accept limits. This is not the land of “unlimited...

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