Abolitionist
Ethics and Religion Talk: Should We be Abolitionists Today?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 09-03-2019 under OPINION
[Note: Abolitionists are people who try to dismantle the institutions, such as the criminal justice system, that benefit from modern day slavery.] The Reverend Colleen Squires, minister at All Souls Community Church of West Michigan, a...
Ethics and Religion Talk: Guns, violence and pacifism, Part 2
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 05-07-2018 under OPINION
Father Kevin Niehoff, O.P., a Dominican priest who serves as Adjutant Judicial Vicar, Diocese of Grand Rapids, responds: “Pacifism ‘is opposition to war or violence by means of settling disputes; specifically, refusal to bear arms on...
Ethics and Religion Talk: Guns, violence and pacifism, Part 1
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 04-30-2018 under OPINION
The format for our column this week is a bit different. This week, we invite R. Scot Miller, an ordained minister of outreach and education at Common Spirit Church of the Brethren in Grand Rapids, to share a long-form essay on the topic of guns,...