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Captain America v. The Collective: Redemption in Tucson

By Christopher H. Evans

…f us—some sense of repentance. Although many conservatives praised Obama’s Tucson speech for not associating the violence of Tucson with the contemporary political climate, they missed the ways Obama attempted to set a penitent tone, calling Americans to a higher level of moral accountability. When I watched the University of Arizona ceremony leading up to the president’s speech, in some way the audience reaction seemed a bit surreal—more like a c…

Tucson, Like All Tragedy, is for Adults

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e him as the arbiter best suited to give voice to the political meaning of Tucson? Dorothy “Dot” Morris was 76; so was Dorwin Stoddard. Phyllis Scheck was 79. Bill Badger, the man who first wrestled Jared Lee Loughner to the ground even after he had been shot himself, was 74. Even Gifford’s assistant, Gabriel “Gabe” Zimmermann, was 30. This was not a young crowd. But Christina Taylor Green was young—just nine years old. And she bears additional sy…

New Theory for Tucson Tragedy: Blame the Atheists

By Lauri Lebo

…. Then the tweets started. And once again, the national media has lost its sanity in the wake of tragedy. Since then, I’ve followed the back-and-forth debate arriving every couple minutes in my email inbox over whether Loughner is a “liberal lunatic,” the phrase that Tea Party Nation has been relentlessly drum-beating for the past three days, or whether violent rhetoric of the tea party movement is at fault for the tragedy, as many pundits on the…

Memo To Kathleen Parker on ‘Father Sky’ Reference in Tucson Memorial

By Daniel Schultz

…you were upset with the opening invocation at the memorial service for the Tucson shooting victims. Here’s what you had to say about it on Twitter: Father Sky and Mother Earth, seriously? You probably didn’t realize that it was a nod to Native American beliefs, rather than a New Age-y expropriation of those beliefs. That’s all right, I understand. Religion isn’t your beat. Besides, New Mexico and Arizona are exactly alike. How is a major CNN contr…

State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…dy itself, he explained, demanded what we have learned to call “civility”: Tucson reminded us that… each of us is a part of… something more consequential than party or political preference. We are part of the American family… We share common hopes and a common creed… We can… we must… work together. But he went further, making the newfound clamor for “civility” a mark of American exceptionalism: All American children share “the dreams of a little g…

“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home

By Kaya Oakes

…appointed new seminary staff from among the higher ups in the dioceses of San Francisco and San Jose, including Jesuit Fr. John Piderit as the seminary’s vice president for administration. Piderit is the former president of Loyola University in Chicago, and in 2000, he stepped down from that position after budget crises at Loyola brought the university nearly to the breaking point and calls for his removal were heard from faculty, staff and stude…

Death in the Desert: Riding With the Samaritans

By Lauri Lebo

…terians, Unitarian Universalists, Jews, Mennonites, and Quakers. The first sanctuary was here in Tucson in 1985 at the Southside Presbyterian Church by the Rev. John Fife, who hung signs outside the church: “This is a Sanctuary for the Oppressed of Central America,” and “Immigration: do not profane the Sanctuary of God.” The church gave shelter to thousands fleeing the Central American death squads. In 1986, Fife was one of eight activists convict…

What Can We Expect Following Tucson?

By Gary Laderman

…he same predictable round of finger pointing: left vs. right. Forget about sane discourse or compassion, this event will continue to be part of an ongoing political battle. Given the weight of history though, I am sure we can expect the following responses: First, the killer will be understood to be a lone psychotic who acted based on paranoid delusions about government conspiracies. As much as the left would like to connect him to the noxious pol…

Will San Francisco Ban Circumcision?

By Shalom Goldman

…ne for committing a misdemeanor. In order to get this proposal on the 2011 San Francisco city ballot, Schofield has to collect over seven thousand signatures—and thus far his campaign is not going very well. Quite to the contrary, the idea has caused a backlash, and not only in the American Jewish Community. The organized Jewish community in both California and throughout the U.S. rallied to condemn the proposed ban. Within a few days of Schofield…

Jose Antonio Vargas’ Coming Out and the Power of Stories over Religious Remonstrances

By Sarah Posner

If you haven’t read it already, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas’ extraordinary story of his life as an undocumented immigrant in the United States will move you to tears — unless, that is, you have ice water running through your veins. You must read it; it’s quite possibly the most important and telling thing you will read about what America is in a long time. I just saw Vargas this past weekend at the Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis. He…