Robert Jensen

[This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats student group at the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2009.]

For months, leftists have been pointing out the absurdity of the claim that Barack Obama is a socialist.

Journalism schools have much in common with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve.

A Conversation with Robert Jensen
by Becky Garrison

Robert Jensen is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism and author of the personal memoir All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, a compelling memoir that highlights the religious debate currently raging in the United States. I had the chance to contact Dr.

Honoring President Obama’s request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become “a teachable moment,” here’s my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow to learn.

a review of A Vindication of Love Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century
by Cristina Nehring

After years of avoiding organized religion, I surprised my friends when I joined a church in 2005. Though St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX, is known as a progressive congregation with a radical minister, those friends were curious: Did I now believe in God? That depends, of course, on what one means by “God.”

[See Part I, “God as mystery.”]

[This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats student group at the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2009.]

For months, leftists have been pointing out the absurdity of the claim that Barack Obama is a socialist.

Journalism schools have much in common with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve.

A Conversation with Robert Jensen
by Becky Garrison

Robert Jensen is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism and author of the personal memoir All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, a compelling memoir that highlights the religious debate currently raging in the United States. I had the chance to contact Dr.

Honoring President Obama’s request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become “a teachable moment,” here’s my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow to learn.

a review of A Vindication of Love Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century
by Cristina Nehring

After years of avoiding organized religion, I surprised my friends when I joined a church in 2005. Though St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX, is known as a progressive congregation with a radical minister, those friends were curious: Did I now believe in God? That depends, of course, on what one means by “God.”

[See Part I, “God as mystery.”]