Where lives are auctioned for $400

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — “Eight hundred,” says the auctioneer. “900 … 1,000 … 1,100 …” Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars — the equivalent of $800. Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not “merchandise” at all, but two human beings. One of the unidentified men being sold in the grainy […]

Removing George Washington

Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia announces that it is relocating out of the sanctuary two nearly 150-year-old marble plaques that memorialize its two most famous parishioners. Source: Removing George Washington – Juicy Ecumenism

On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

Believing Catholics and Protestants alike sit by the rivers of New Babylon, paradoxically linked in a love for Jesus Christ, but wrapped in a hundred forms of entangling captivity. Source: On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church | Charles J. Chaput | First Things