Monthly Archives: November 2020

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Nov
30

BEYOND THE BANALITY OF GUN VIOLENCE

GUN VIOLENCE IS NORMALIZED. It is accepted as the normal price of Constitutional-American life. Normal is banal. Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “banality of evil” in describing the Third Reich and Adolf Eichmann in particular. To paraphrase her description, “The greatest evils in…

Nov
10

FORWARD!

Given the near silence in the election cycle addressing gun violence prevention, one can wonder which way forward? Where is hope for moving forward? Hope is inextricably linked with forward. We can rest in Paul’s profession in Romans 5, “Hope does not disappoint!”…