Tobias Winright is associate professor of theological and health care ethics at St. Louis University. He is the author of Serve and Protect: Selected Essays on Just Policing (Cascade, 2020), and he is currently writing Just and Unjust Policing for Georgetown University Press and a book on the ethics of guns for Paulist Press.
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Commentary
Catholics have no grounds to claim exemption from COVID vaccine mandates
Commentary: There may be a moral obligation to be vaccinated for COVID-19 unless one has a medical contraindication. Such an obligation is grounded in the Gospel's call to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
Perspective
A former cop reckons with unending police killings of Black Americans
Perspective: Policing as we know it today is but a mirror reflection of much of the wider U.S. culture. Few nations have police as armed as ours; few nations have citizens as armed as ours.
Book Review
Your 'just peace' reading list
All too many Catholics may be uninformed about, as well as unformed by, the criteria and practices of the just war tradition. Here is a refresher.
Book Review
US Christians' end-time paradox
Revelation can open our eyes to today’s idolatry and injustice, says author
APOCALYPSE AND ALLEGIANCE: WORSHIP, POLITICS, AND DEVOTION IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION
By J. Nelson Kraybill
Published by Brazos Press, $21.99
Get ready. Jesus is coming to Oakland, Calif. Well, not just to Oakland, for according to the Oakland-based Family Radio Worldwide, an independent Christian ministry led by Harold Camping, Jesus Christ will return on May 21 to whisk away all faithful Christians in the Rapture, to avoid the calamities about to plague the nonbelievers left on the planet.
