Tag: Social Justice

  • Just Mercy

    Just Mercy

    Reproductive justice. Climate justice. Food justice. Social justice. Append the word “justice” to any other word and you’ve got a ready-made brand platform for niche activism. As cultural forces shape the meaning of words over time, they risk losing their specificity and sharpness. The word “justice” risks dissipating into a partisan nebula. Depending which side…

  • Cargo / Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom / Sicario: Day of the Soldado

    Cargo / Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom / Sicario: Day of the Soldado

    Welcome to another edition of Mini-Review Roundup where we present smaller reviews of several movies at once. Up this time: Cargo, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado.   Cargo   The zombie genre has just about come and gone in this era of prestige television and volatile blockbusters. The Walking Dead,…

  • Mahatma Ghandi and the Christian Call to Social Justice

    Mahatma Ghandi and the Christian Call to Social Justice

    Just yesterday I told my daughter that I loved history in high school, but that I also did terrible in it. I would forget what I studied faster than I could pull out my pencil to write a test. But one thing I will never forget: learning about the Hindu caste system when in the…