Fear has assumed an inordinate priority at this moment in history. Called now more often, in American discourse, by the name we give it at its worst extremity, terror shapes our world. We, who when we pledge our allegiance to our homeland, declare that ours is a nation “with liberty and justice for all,” defer to terror to define exactly what we mean by the words liberty, justice and all.

Creating fear of “the other,” and directing fear and attention to “those people” have a particular American history as well as a general world history. The magazine The Progressive provides a forum for author Matthew Rothschild that keeps this (particular US variety of the) scapegoating practice in view and places it in some historical […]

PANOPTICON;

OR

THE INSPECTION-HOUSE:

CONTAINING
THE
IDEA OF A NEW PRINCIPLE
OF CONSTRUCTION
APPLICABLE
TO
ANY SORT
OF ESTABLISHMENT, IN WHICH PERSONS OF
ANY DESCRIPTION
ARE TO BE KEPT UNDER INSPECTION;
AND
IN PARTICULAR TO
PENITENTIARY-HOUSES,

PRISONS,
HOUSES OF INDUSTRY, WORK-HOUSES, POOR-HOUSES, LAZARETTOS, MANUFACTORIES, HOSPITALS,
MAD-HOUSES, AND SCHOOLS:

WITH
A PLAN OF MANAGEMENT

ADAPTED
TO THE PRINCIPLE:
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS,

WRITTEN
IN THE YEAR 1787, FROM CRECHEFF IN WHITE
RUSSIA.
TO […]

Ulrich Duchrow - Articles Online

Biblical Perspectives on Empire
Changes Since Basil 1989 Assembly
Desai Letter
Ending the Spiral of Violence
Faith Communities and Social Movements Facing Globalization
The God of the European Constitution
God or Mammon
Justice
Life is More than Capital
Literacy in Economic Questions : LA IMC
Neo Liberalism Economic Justice and the Western Church
Private Property– a Growing Danger for Life
The Spirit of […]

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Duchrow, representing Kairos Europa at the 2002 Soesterberg consultation, examines the following issues:

Becoming a confessing church
What churches must publicly and unequivocally reject
What practical steps churches can take
Alliance building for an economy serving life

Kairos Europa, which I am asked to represent, was formed by ecumenical groups […]