A Christian Justice?
The Christian tradition has typically opposed the death penalty for a number of compelling reasons. Our savior was an innocent victim of it. Our awareness of human sin means that establishing someone’s...
View Article‘Theories’ of the Cross Die on Death Row
‘Christ didn’t just suffer in the past. Christ still suffers today with us, with anyone who suffers in the world.’ I first heard those words from Brother Alois, the prior of the Taize monastic...
View ArticleRighteousness is Not a Religious Word
This weekend we began our summer sermon series, Songs of the Messiah, during which we’ll look at how Paul uses the Psalms of the Old Testament throughout his argument in his Letter to the Romans. The...
View Article10 Reasons Christians Should Oppose the Death Penalty
* The Stoning of Stephen * The Beheading of St. Paul * The (Upside Down) Crucifixion of Peter The Woman Jesus Refuses to Condemn to a Legal Execution (aka: The Woman Caught in Adultery ) * The...
View ArticleHobby Lobby v. Death Penalty
While corporations are now considered people- religious people- under the law (I hope all corporations start tithing now), prisoners on death row continue to be deemed less than creatures under the...
View ArticleThe Death Penalty Violates the 1st Not Just the 5th Commandment
“I knew Alfred Dewayne Brown was stone cold innocent the moment I met him. I am from Northern New Jersey and was a Public Defender with the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York, so I have developed...
View ArticleAbsolutely, the Church Needs to Teach Moral Absolutes
I hear it all the time, mostly at parties and social gatherings where I’m more likely to run into non-Christians. Often I end up on the receiving end of it at funerals, hearing someone’s grief...
View ArticleMy Friend and the Man He Freed from Death Row
Of the disciples fleeing Jesus’ execution, theologian Stanley Hauerwas writes: ‘The disciples have not yet understood the radical character of Jesus’ Kingdom that would challenge the violence of the...
View ArticleGrace and Justice
My friend Brian Stolarz spoke at my house last night for a book-signing party about his new book Grace and Justice: The Race Against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man. Elections have consequences....
View ArticleThis Black Life Matters
Because for years, it didn’t. Brian Stolarz is one of my best friends. I’d do anything for him and he’d take a bullet for me. Brian worked for years to free Alfred Dewayne Brown, also a friend now,...
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