Faith, Fear, and the Fiction of the “Other”

War and Religion–Blood Brothers in History by Mark M. Bello “In the beginning . . .” It’s one of the oldest quotations in human history. Before religion, there was creation. Before doctrine, there was existence. Before we divided ourselves, there was simply . . . life. Today, we are, once again, staring at war. Tensions […]

On MLK Day: Let’s Compare Dignified Leadership With Leadership by Degradation

Trump Could Learn from This King By Mark M. Bello Jan. 19, 2026 Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr.—not as a saint carved in marble, but as a living model of leadership grounded in human dignity. And this matters because dignity is precisely what our current political moment lacks. King believed power without moral […]

Have You No Sense of Decency?

By C J Waldron The question “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” was leveled at Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy as his House Committee on UnAmerican Activities” came crashing down upon him. It was both a question and an accusation put to a Repulbican senator who sought to destroy the Democratic Party by falsely claiming […]

Signs of the Times: Jesus or Trump?

By Dan Luzadder Our sturdy whitewashed church, Center Chapel, stood on a modest hill overlooking wide sweeps of farmland; farm houses, red barns, furrowed fields and tree-lined fence rows in the distance. I first saw that landscape walking up worn stone steps with my working-class father, steadied by a painted metal railing, cool and smooth […]

Victory and Values: Donald Trump’s Dangerous View of World War II

by Mark M. Bello On May 8, 1945, the world took a collective breath. After six long years of fighting in Europe, Allied forces—led in large part by the United States—achieved what many thought impossible: the defeat of Nazi Germany. Victory in Europe Day, or VE Day, became not only a marker of military success […]