Memorial Day & Democracy of the Dead
Memorial Day is primarily about honoring the legacy of the dead, especially persons who served sacrificially in the military.

Memorial Day is primarily about honoring the legacy of the dead, especially persons who served sacrificially in the military.
Richard Norton Smith's outstanding new biography of Nelson Rockefeller does not directly focus much on the religious beliefs of the wealthy scion and long-time presidential aspirant.
Czech church reformer Jan Hus was burned at the stake 600 years ago this summer.
Famous anti-death penalty campaigner Sister Helen Prejean, who inspired the Susan Sarandon movie "Dead Man Walking," testified Monday on behalf of the Boston Bomber facing possible execution for murdering four, including an 8 year old child, and wounding 264, many of whom lost limbs.
A new Pew survey shows the number of Americans identifying as Christians declining from 78% to 70% since 2007.
Recently a group of mostly liberal Protestant clergy (but including a Catholic bishop) signed a Nashville Tennessean op-ed denouncing conservative Tennessee legislators who oppose Obamacare-facilitated Medicaid expansion in their state.
Does Russell Crowe's new WWI-era film The Water Diviner aim to demonize Christianity and exalt Islam?
Here's a marvelous story of the CIA operative who helped some of the 65,000 South Vietnamese who escaped in the final few days before Saigon fell to the Communists on April 30, 1975, just in time for May Day, the international Marxist holiday.
The Baltimore riots reminded me of a passage I read last eve from Richard Norton Smith's excellent new Nelson Rockefeller biography about the 1971 Attica prison riot.
These bishops completely ignore that United Methodism officially affirms laws in civil society defining marriage as the union of man and woman.