Chuck Colson has begun a video series called Two-Minute Warning, in which he addresses issues of key importance. Just as a football team exhausts its final efforts in the last two minutes of a game, Christians must make a serious effort to “play the game hard.” The game here, obviously, is living and advancing a Christian worldview.
Today the Colson Center has posted his first video, on whether or not the war in Afghanistan fits Just War criteria. You can view it through the homepage at ColsonCenter.org, or you can click this link and go straight to the Two-Minute Warning page!
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By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: March 18, 2010 5:12 PM
Many are working to bring the disparity in sentencing between cocaine and crack to an end. Pharmacologically they are almost the exact same substance. Personally, I think the disparity should be reduced a bit, but I also think that community-based treatment for non-violent offenders should be used on a much larger scale.
William Saletan of Slate observes that we're in a "war between the worlds": the world of reality and the world of virtual reality. The frightening thing is that some of the casualties in this war are not virtual casualties. They're real ones.
The compromise [Uganda] had accepted, which the president [Yoweri Museveni] presented as reconciliation, was actually something more complex and less sturdy. It was as if, having found themselves unable to forgive, his people had concentrated on forgetting, and when they’d failed at forgetting, they’d chosen to believe what they wanted to believe. So long as nothing disturbed their conception of the past or exposed them to scrutiny, the nation could continue its halting procession along Museveni’s chosen path. To the president’s way of thinking, therefore, justice was a threat to progress, not because it promised verdicts and punishments, but because it forced people to remember.
