Drew Christiansen

On a night when the Packers took on the Bears last Thursday evening I found myself in Milwaukee speaking to a crowd of 450 friends of the Wisconsin Jesuits about the state of electoral politics in the U S The invitation came from the Jesuit Partnership Council a lay group that garners suppo

The Responsibility to Protect the innovative international law doctrine that establishes a framework for international intervention in the domestic life of countries where significant numbers of people are subject to violence or grave deprivation seems tailor-made for the current civil war in Syri

Our editor Drew Christiansen S J submitted this letter to the editor to the New York Times in response to Ross Douthat s recent column Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved Ross Douthat attributes the loss of adherence in western churches to progressive theology In particular he assigns the

I woke up Sunday morning July 1 to the voice of National Public Radio rsquo s Krista Tippet posing gentle questions to philosopher Jacob Needleman on his book American Soul Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders The segment entitled ldquo The Inward Work of Democracy rdquo explained how ever