by Nick Gier Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.—Jesus, Mathew 25:40 Just as GOP attempts to restrict voting might also affect Republicans, its…
by Nick Gier Peaceful protestors should be protected and arsonists and anarchists should be prosecuted.—Joe Biden (7/30/20) People not affiliated with the protests are creating havoc on the streets.—Minneapolis activist Mike Griffin The Capitol is not a liquor store.—Rabbi Yosie…
by Nick Gier He never threw a brick. He never lit a match. —Rep. James Clyburn on John Lewis Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble.—John…
RELST/MART 204: PEACE AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS–SPRING, 1995 REQUIRED TEXTS: Chapple, Non-Violence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions; Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace; Carmody, Peace and Justice in the Scriptures of the World Religions. BOOKS ON RESERVE: James…
HOW DID WE LOSE OUR RACIAL COLOR BLINDNESS? Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho (ngier∂uidaho.edu) Click here for full scholarly article "What Part of Equality Don’t You Understand?" "Three Principles of Civil Disobedience: Thoreau, Gandhi, and King"…
“Jesus, a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew, called us to preach good news to the poor, the broken, the bruised, and all those who are made to feel unaccepted.” —Rev. William Barber, Founder, The Moral Monday In October of 1983, I was…
If you’re openly inciting violence, that’s a problem. But other than that, we can’t start doing this filtering of people’s words and what they say. —Jordan Frost, WSU student body president It is virtually impossible to articulate a standard for…
“It is too early to clothe me in sainthood. I myself do not feel to be a saint in any shape or form.” –M. K. Gandhi “Martin Luther King helps us to see that to be a saint is…
As a politically active black man in 1950s and 1960s, Bayard Rustin had, in addition to his race, three strikes against him: he was a pacifist; he was a Communist; and he was openly homosexual. In 1936 Rustin became a…
from God, Reason, and the Evangelicals (Chapter Four) University Press of America, 1987 (copyright held by author) by Nicholas F. Gier, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Idaho Ph.D. in philosophical theology at the Claremont Graduate University Coordinator of Religious…
