Last month, my colleagues at
All Faithful Can allowed me to write a four-part series on the U.S. Senate's report on the CIA's use of torture that was released on December 9th. Instead of cross posting the same material to this blog, the links below will take you to the particular posts.
- Part One: Why do
Americans—and in particular Christians—support torture? And why do Christians do so at higher rates
than non-Christians?
- Part Two: How do you
define torture? How have we defined
torture? What does torture “do”?
- Part Three: What do torture
and sexual assault have in common?
- Part Four: What are the
theological resources that have shaped Christianity’s moral prohibition on the
use of torture (even if they have not always worked in practice)?
Along the way, I pulled from some of my graduate research I did in 2009-2010 and in 2012. I have a few more posts in mind that will be a few months in the making.
