Erik Edstrom, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, tries to explain what our recent wars have meant to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Roger Bergman
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
An unsettling look at America’s culture of self-defense
“Stand your ground” laws typically expand the historic reach of the “castle doctrine,” the right in English common law to defending one’s own property.
Posted inBooks, Politics & Society
Andrew Bacevich’s latest looks into USA involvement in the Middle East.
How did freedom become identified with unfettered access to cheap and abundant oil from halfway around the world?
Posted inPoetry
A Truly Tuned Heart : Meditations for troubled times
One need not believe that ours are the worst of times to believe they are pretty bad—nonetheless it is a time for poetry.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why I can’t keep Romero at a safe distance
Roger Bergman relates his experience of Óscar Romero, a model of grace in the midst of desolation from Bergman’s personal life to his Creighton University classroom.