The Ones Who Walk Away: Social Justice, Shame, and the Church

The Ones Who Walk Away: Social Justice, Shame, and the Church

Le Guin’s story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," won the 1974 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, with many readers interpreting it as an allegory about societal injustices that are seen but remain unaddressed.

Miles Woodhull | | Spring 2018

Ending Global Poverty: An Interview with Economist Paul Niehaus ’04

"The early 2000s were an incredibly exciting time to study development economics because we were just starting to use experimental testing in a big way – like clinical trials in medicine, or A/B testing in tech."

Peter Hickman | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2016

An Interview with Prof. Anand Gnanadesikan

"Dealing with uncertain environmental problems, where we only see part of the system, has helped me appreciate what we do in a faith sense."

Gabrielle Moss | The Johns Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

Hope in the Midst of Hurt: A Critique of Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates has been labeled this generation’s flagbearer for social justice and chief warrior against anti-Black racism.

Noah Black | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2016

Bread Alone: Earth, Heaven, and Politics in the Wilderness

Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor takes a materialistic approach to religious life because of the materialism of political life.

Phil Jeffery | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015

Wet Feet: Navigating the Intellectual and Practical

Long run solutions without short run help do nothing for the people who are actually suffering from systemic problems right now.

Nathan Scalise | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2015

Social Justice and the Eucharistic Life

Although the Church was not the source of the injustices in their community, they believed those who were wasteful or did not give freely exacerbated the suffering of others.

Monica Mikhail | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2015

The Relevancy of Quakerism

The guidance of the Quaker Testimonies (simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, service and stewardship) could not be more relevant to today’s oppressive, materialistic, and war-torn world.

Mary Chawaga | Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015

“Speak Up” – UC Berkeley Cafe Night

On May 2, UC Berkeley's journal TAUG celebrated the publication of their Spring 2015 issue with a bi-annual Cafe Night.

Augustine Collective | |

Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and Social Teaching: A Catholic Perspective on Political Economy

In a statement echoed by President Obama, Francis laments the condition of a socioeconomic order in which “it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points.”

Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014

On Money

We accept Paul’s claim that the love of money is the root of all evil, but we know that that verse does not entail us to shun money itself as an evil. Money, at the end of the day, is also part of His Creation, and all things were created for His glory.

Richard Lee and April Koh | The Yale Logos | Winter 2012

The Messy Theology of Justice

Love is not about the show and discipline of religious habits, but about the raw, arduous, and messy everyday work of justice.

Hana Lehmann | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2013

Cynicism, the Gospel, and the Orange Bubble

Everyone has to be in some kind of bubble somewhere. The question that follows is where and how we decide to draw its parameters.

Alice Su | Princeton Revisions |

The Stranger: Christianity and the Immigrant Story

“I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” This quote comes from the Gospels, which are based in the ministry of Jesus. When we stop and look at the story of Jesus, we see an understanding of what it means to be a stranger.

by Yared Portillo, with help from Helen Plotkin | Swarthmore Peripateo | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2013

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

If we wouldn’t tell our neighbors to constantly compare their lives to everyone else’s and feel inadequate by doing so, why do we ourselves do that?

Christina Keller | Swarthmore Peripateo | Volume 1, Issue 1

Athens, Amherst and Jerusalem

If it is true that reason and faith are inherently at odds, it seems strange that so much of the story of higher education in the west is essentially the story of Christians creating institutions for the rigorous study of philosophy, theology, and the humanities.

Prof. Craig Nicolson | Five College Slant | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2012

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