the executed God

Ryan’s last post on Mary Ryder and her actions protesting the death penalty coincided with a book I’ve read a couple weeks ago, so I thought I’d post a brief blurb about it here.
I first encountered Mark Lewis Taylor’s work in a collection of postcolonial theologies. His 2001 The Executed God: The Way of the [...]

something uplifting and radical to prove my love for Catholicism

Here’s something interesting and heartening in the world of Catholicism. Apparently, on August 7th of last year, Mary Rider, a member of the Catholic Worker movement and mother of eight was sentenced to fifteen days in prison for protesting during an execution at a North Carolina prison.
On August 18th, 2006, Rider was arrested while protesting [...]