Religion Dispatches
Thinking of these killers as “lone wolf” actors makes it easier to dismiss them as demented individuals, hapless victims of bad parenting, self-destructive misfits, or erratic evil doers. But we need to see these “lone wolf” white supremacists for what they are—members of “wolf packs.”
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Yesterday’s shootings at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas were horrific and especially…
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So here we are again, after Newtown, after San Bernadino and Orlando. This time the…
Read MoreWhen your opponents seem to exist for attention, how do you take a public moral stand against them?
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On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, murdered 14…
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The recent spate of mass killers all sought to solve their problems with a certain expression of gun violence that maps easily onto the masculinist roots of Christianity and other religious traditions—particularly in more conservative expressions.
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