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Vox Nova at the Library: The White Man's Burden

In the sixty plus years since the end of WWII, Western governments and aid agencies have dolled out more than $2 trillion dollars in economic assistance to the world’s poorer nations as a means … more →

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Vox Nova at the Library: The White Man's Burden — 5 comments

Blackadder wrote 3 months ago: In the sixty plus years since the end of WWII, Western governments and aid agencies have dolled out … more →

Tags: Latin America, Books, Globalization, Africa, poverty, Foreign Affairs, Blackadder, Charity, Economics

Vox Nova at the Library: Confessions of an Economic Hitman — 10 comments

Blackadder wrote 3 months ago: Part memoir, part polemic, Confessions of an Economic Hitman tells the story of John Perkins, a form … more →

Tags: Blackadder, Books, capitalism, Charity, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Globalization, poverty

Racism in Europe: NPR Series — 8 comments

Katerina Ivanovna wrote 6 months ago: I recommend listening/reading the three-part story NPR is running on the growing xenophobia in Europ … more →

Tags: Europe, Globalization, Immigration, inculturation, Katerina Ivanovna, Patriotism

The contradictions of "redneck rhetoric," or why Palin does not represent "rural culture" — 21 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 10 months ago: Morning’s Minion is right to contest the rhetoric surrounding Sarah Palin’s supposed rep … more →

Tags: america, appalachia, Catholic social teaching, Culture, election, identity, Labor, McCain, Michael Iafrate

U.S. soliders trying to convert Iraqis to Christianity — 21 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 year ago: From Democracy Now!: In Iraq, residents of Fallujah are claiming US soldiers are handing out Bible-t … more →

Tags: america, Iraq War, Michael Iafrate, middle east, Politics

Rethinking the "givenness of the united states" — 42 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 year ago: “[S]ocial justice activists as well as U.S.-based liberation theologians often criticize U.S. … more →

Tags: america, democracy, Indigenous people, Liberation Theology, Michael Iafrate, Politics, Radical Catholicism, The State, Theology

Taking Appalachia seriously: implications for theology and the Church — 32 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 year ago: Appalachia was on the radar of participants of the Theology in the Americas conference in Detroit … more →

Tags: Catholic social teaching, Michael Iafrate, The State, Liberation Theology, Environmentalism, Globalization, Ecumenism, appalachia, Creation

St. Augustine: Soft on crime? — 8 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 year ago: I thought of our own Morning’s Minion when I read this quote today in the recently published, … more →

Tags: Augustine, Church History, Death Penalty, ethics, human person, Michael Iafrate, Saints

“Though the Mountains Be Shaken”: Toward a Countercultural and Liberative Ecclesial Ethic for Appalachia (5) — 4 comments

Michael J. Iafrate wrote 1 year ago: Part Five: Appalachia today in the midst of new forms of “imperial capitalism” Observing The social … more →

Tags: Catholic social teaching, Politics, Culture, Michael Iafrate, Liberation Theology, Pro-Life, Economy, Theology, Environmentalism

Pope attempts to correct statements on indigenous peoples

Katerina Ivanovna wrote 2 years ago: Back when the Pope was being criticized for his Regensburg University speech which contained some no … more →

Tags: Indigenous people, Latin America, Michael Iafrate, Pope Benedict XVI


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