Do you know that God exists? the interviewers ask; or, How do you know Christian faith is true? There are two tempting ways of responding, both wrong. There is the apologetic shuffle of saying, ‘Of course, I don’t really know; this is just the truth as it appears to me and I may be wrong’. And there is the confident offer to prove it all to the ( Read more... )

      The Zapatista revolution was an armed struggle started by the indigenous people of the state of Chiapas, Mexico.  It was a fight for social justice, and liberty from the tyranny of the Mexican Federal government.  Although the basis of the Zapatista population was indigenous Mayans, there were many peoples who participated in the ( Read more... )

            The most important place to begin when discussing the topic of violence is to understand how it is defined and what its implications are.  The two types of violence that will be discussed are political violence and structural violence, and while there are other forms of violence, these two are the most predominant throughout the world.  ( Read more... )

Except for Charvakism, there is no Indian school of thought that does not possess a doctrine that addresses the idea of rebirth and the karmic cycle.  Buddhism, then, although it is a nastika school and does not accept the Vedas, is certainly no exception.  On the surface there seems to be the same idea in both Buddhism and other ( Read more... )

            Latinos are, generally, a diverse group of people, especially within the context of the United States.  In reality, general identity cannot be fully applied to any group of individuals in any context because it assumes that everyone under a specific label is ontologically the same in every way.  In light of this, every Latino ( Read more... )

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Question #1) The Historical Question: Environmentalism in the Biblical Context

In Ehrenfeld and Bentley’s discussion on Judaic environmental ethics, there is an emphasis on the philosophical concept of stewardship of the Creation within the Biblical narrative. Stewardship, within the context of many verses and excerpts from the Bible, addresses ( Read more... )

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