Commentary

The Religion Newswriters Association continued its 64th annual conference in Austin, TX, at the State Capitol building for a pre-conference about issues of religious freedom in the public square in the United States on Thursday (Sept. 26).

The United States has been using drones as a way to fight terrorism, claiming the unmanned aerial vehicles have the ability to make precision attacks. However at a lecture at Whitworth University Monday night Lawyer, writer and women’s rights advocate Rafia Zakaria said drones aren't the humanitarian solution the government claims they are.

The economic system we have in this world no longer works … if it ever did. I know, I know … Rush Limbaugh says, “it works everywhere, it’s been tried.” So of course we, who benefit from the system, believe what we are told and on and on the juggernaut marches, killing the world, crushing human spirit and making a very few people wealthy.

WASHINGTON (RNS) The attack on a shopping mall in Kenya came shortly before a deadly attack against a church in Pakistan, but analysts warn against concluding that radical Islam is gaining strength.

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In a recent news release Whitworth University announced that this fall, Professor of History Rafaela Acevedo-Field and her husband Kenneth Field, an adjunct professor, will be teaching at “Whitworth South” to help students immerse themselves in Latin American culture.

In partnership with Gonzaga University and Whitworth University, the YMCA will host two events to distribute information about their Act Six initiative; a full-tuition, full needs, college scholarship program for emerging young leaders, according to a press release.

Yesterday, House Republicans voted in favor of a bill that would cut funding for SNAP (commonly referred to as food stamps) by $40 billion over the next decade. Should the bill end up as law, the immediate results would be a staggering 3.8 million people who would be kicked off the program next year according to the Congressional Budget Office.