David A. Sylvester: Bravo for the Pope! He’s Facing Reality.
At last Pope Benedict XVI is moving the Catholic Church toward the truth: the victims need justice and the Church needs transformation. In this, he shows the human struggle for and against change — and...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Conscience is contagious: The growing opposition of UC...
The long line of UC law school graduates approached the protest with some hesitation. Crossing from the opposite side of Gayley Avenue on the northern edge of UC’s campus, the professors in their...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Dennis Hopper: The man who showed us why America is going...
Dennis Hopper had an unfortunate gift for self-marginalization. He played the buffoon, the drunk, the druggie, the sex addict whose foolish behavior obscured a serious sensibility. When he died on May...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Why Empire is a Spiritual Disease: U.S. death squads,...
Three years ago, Sen. Barack Obama was sharp, forceful and eloquent in his questions to Gen. David Petraeus about the failure of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. In a congressional hearing on Iraq, Obama...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Rethinking Economics: How Sam Daley-Harris inspires hope...
Feeling lethargic or depressed? Take a look at this 20-minute video of Sam Daley-Harris talking about his work lobbying for social change and advocating for microcredit to help assist the poor. You...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: The Catholic Crisis: Part I: How pop culture gets it...
If you have followed the latest news, you might think that the Catholic Church has just made changes to “equate” the the sexual abuse of children with ordaining women as priests. That’s what the New...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: The Catholic Crisis: Part II: When faith is challenged,...
Many years ago, when I was struggling to understand the smoke-and-mirrors world of corporate journalism, a Washington, D.C., veteran passed on to me a bit of wisdom: When I was a reporter, an old PR...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Why the Defrocking of Fr. Roy Bourgeois Will Test the...
If you are following the news, you might know that sometime this week, Fr. Roy Bourgeois is going to be expelled from the Maryknoll order after more than 40 years as one of its leading members. Later,...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: No More Cheap and Easy Easters!
How can we get the Christian way of life back on track? What must we do to stop these cheap and easy Hallmark Card versions of Easter? The answer, in my opinion, is that we must embrace the experience...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Pope Francis’ Lesson: The Abrahamic religions need a...
The crisis in the Middle East is endangering the spiritual integrity of the three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- as six armies and armed groups claim the mantle of religion...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: A Holiday Fantasy: Your New Year’s Resolution for 2016
Editor’s note: Our Tikkun contributing writer David Sylvester offers us a contemporary and super-shortened update and transformation to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, but it’s not just for Christians, and...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Dennis Hopper: The man who showed us why America is going...
Dennis Hopper had an unfortunate gift for self-marginalization. He played the buffoon, the drunk, the druggie, the sex addict whose foolish behavior obscured a serious sensibility. When he died on May...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Why Empire is a Spiritual Disease: U.S. death squads,...
Three years ago, Sen. Barack Obama was sharp, forceful and eloquent in his questions to Gen. David Petraeus about the failure of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. In a congressional hearing on Iraq, Obama...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Rethinking Economics: How Sam Daley-Harris inspires hope...
Feeling lethargic or depressed? Take a look at this 20-minute video of Sam Daley-Harris talking about his work lobbying for social change and advocating for microcredit to help assist the poor. You...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: The Catholic Crisis: Part I: How pop culture gets it...
If you have followed the latest news, you might think that the Catholic Church has just made changes to “equate” the the sexual abuse of children with ordaining women as priests. That’s what the New...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: The Catholic Crisis: Part II: When faith is challenged,...
Many years ago, when I was struggling to understand the smoke-and-mirrors world of corporate journalism, a Washington, D.C., veteran passed on to me a bit of wisdom: When I was a reporter, an old PR...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Why the Defrocking of Fr. Roy Bourgeois Will Test the...
If you are following the news, you might know that sometime this week, Fr. Roy Bourgeois is going to be expelled from the Maryknoll order after more than 40 years as one of its leading members. Later,...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: No More Cheap and Easy Easters!
How can we get the Christian way of life back on track? What must we do to stop these cheap and easy Hallmark Card versions of Easter? The answer, in my opinion, is that we must embrace the experience...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: Pope Francis’ Lesson: The Abrahamic religions need a...
The crisis in the Middle East is endangering the spiritual integrity of the three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- as six armies and armed groups claim the mantle of religion...
View ArticleDavid A. Sylvester: A Holiday Fantasy: Your New Year’s Resolution for 2016
Editor’s note: Our Tikkun contributing writer David Sylvester offers us a contemporary and super-shortened update and transformation to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, but it’s not just for Christians, and...
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