More Than A Scary Face: The moral and spiritual force of George Tooker’s art

George Tooker (b.1920) is a living American artist whose work, and in some respects whose life, seems especially pertinent to our times. Deeply spiritual and therefore attuned to social injustice and destructive societal trends, Tooker painted his most provocative works as protests against racism, alienation, government surveillance of citizens and homophobia. On his canvases Tooker…

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Those Immortal Chaplains I cannot believe that in the article on military chaplaincy by John J. McLain, S.J. (“Showing God’s Face on the Battlefield,” 11/17), you did not tell the story behind the picture of that famous postage stamp which you used to illustrate the article; surely

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Even in the best of times American popular understanding of Muslims has been informed more by stereotype and suspicion than reality But since the terrorist attacks on Sept 11 2001 many perceive the divide between ldquo us rdquo and ldquo them rdquo as a chasm too wide to cross Anti-America

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Easier to Obtain Weapons Than Food?

The current lack of global arms regulations makes it easier to obtain weapons “than food, shelter and education,” said Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s observer to the United Nations. Illicit arms trade has turned tensions into armed conflicts and has compromised peace and development, he said.

The archbishop said…


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