When Humans are Problematic
It's an incredibly surreal feeling to see someone you knew from high school being charged with murder. It's a feeling I imagine most of...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 3 min
Butterflies: a short story
Six-year-old Cassie Mitchell stepped off of the school bus wearing a t-shirt with a silk-screened monarch butterfly on the front, purple...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 3 min
A Globe-Trotting Detective Story: Dirty Wars
Dirty Wars, the documentary film counterpart to the book of the same name, begins its investigation of the secretive world of U.S....
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 4 min
Don Jon can Teach a Thing or Two
WARNING: This film contains explicitly sexual scenes. Please watch responsibly. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s first foray into directing, “Don...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 5 min
New Voice to an Ancient Witness: Pope Francis's Plea for Peace
The pope’s weekly Angelus message, named for the prayer it accompanies, is generally a routine occurrence akin to a Sunday homily. On...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 6 min
Reflections on the Women's Peace Encampment: 30 Years Later
Mark Hare is not the kind of person who strikes you as being aware that he played more than a minor role in changing the world. When I...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 4 min
Re-Thinking the Death Penalty: Religious & Pro-Life Leaders Voice Serious Questions
Concern about the death penalty in America is beginning to move through Evangelical and pro-life communities across the country. It’s...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 13 min
Supporting Non-Violence in Syria
The worsening violence and repression in Syria has left many analysts and policymakers in the United States and other western countries...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 3 min
PTSD & Military Suicides
There has been an increase in suicides of military personnel in recent years. It has become quite a major issue. In fact, more veterans...
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- Nov 19, 2013
- 2 min
Choice: Texas: A Video Game About Abortion
Abortion advocates were outraged when Texas legislators decided to advance a law restricting abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and...
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- Aug 24, 2013
- 2 min
Feminist Rookies in the Pro-Life Ranks
BY AUDREY SAMPLE As someone who fiercely defends the preborn, people sometimes try to stereotype me as being anti-women's rights. Some...
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- Aug 23, 2013
- 7 min
I Am the Man Who Might Not Have Been
BY ALEX* *Names in this piece (including the author's) have been shortened or omitted to protect privacy. Photo provided by the author....
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- Sep 13, 2011
- 6 min
Family Planning Freedom is Pro-Life
BY MARY KRANE DERR The right to access the full range of voluntary family planning methods is often neglected or actively undermined in...
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- Sep 13, 2011
- 1 min
Sonnet -- At 40 Weeks
BY LILIANNA SERBICKI Swollen, a dream on its way to fruition; Nothing romantic. Lense (soft-focus) gone. Real fruit bruises; a real fruit...
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- Sep 13, 2011
- 5 min
Ten Years Later
BY AIMEE BEDOY I am writing this ten years to the day that those towers fell. And ten years later, I want us to discuss what we have...
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- Sep 13, 2011
- 2 min
The Abolition of Capital Punishment in Illinois
BY NICHOLAS NEAL The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois began when Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on capital punishment...
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- Sep 13, 2011
- 13 min
Justice in the Face of Unknowing
BY AIMEE BEDOY & STEVEN OETJEN A quandary of major proportions faces our nation in this day and age. It could be a matter of life and...
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- Sep 13, 2011
- 2 min
The Rebels Storming Tripoli
BY NICHOLAS NEAL & AIMEE BEDOY On Tuesday, August 23rd, the rebel forces in Libya stormed Gadhafi's capital of Tripoli, thus declaring...
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- Sep 13, 2011
- 8 min
Just War, Just Peace, Or What?
BY BILL SAMUEL What should our attitude -- as individuals, social movements and nations -- be toward war? When, if ever, is war...
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- Sep 13, 2011
- 1 min
Mother to Child
BY OLIVIA MELDRUM While I am mistress of my mind, You will sleep safely every hour. No morning will you wake to find My warmth turned...
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