Yesterday Franklin Graham appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network to offer his opinion on the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Watch: Let’s break this down. 00:40ff: The host, Doug McKelway, describes how the execution of...
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr: “in a given instance the principle of freedom may have to yield to the necessities of social cohesion, requiring a measure of coercion.”
Here is Reinhold Niebuhr in Moral Man and Immoral Society. He wrote this book in 1932: Society may believe that the preservation of freedom of opinion is a social good, not because liberty of thought is an inherent or natural...
“The danger of being a professional exposer of the bogus is that, encountering it so often, one may come in time to cease to believe in the reality it counterfeits.”
Alan Jacobs dug-up this gem from W.H. Auden’s 1941 review of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christianity and Power. It was published in The Nation on January 4, 1941: A brother once came to one of the desert fathers saying, “My mind is...
Jeremy Sabella on which Reinhold Niebuhr is landing today
Last week Current hosted its second bi-monthly event for Deep Water and Storm Surge patrons. Our guest was theologian, cultural critic, and Current author Jeremy Sabella. Jeremy talked about his work on Reinhold Niebuhr, his experience growing-up in Guatemala and Nicaragua, his love...