Robert Jensen
- February 28, 2010 - 10:57am
After a recent talk about the struggle for social justice and the threats to the ecosystem, a student lingered, waiting to talk to me alone, as if he had something to confess.
“I feel so overwhelmed,” he finally said, wondering aloud if political organizing could really make a difference.
- January 25, 2010 - 9:43am
CNN’s star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unable to get away.
- October 2, 2009 - 10:29am
Special commentary by Gail Dines
- September 25, 2009 - 9:23am
[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.
- September 14, 2009 - 1:05pm
Journalism schools have much in common with the mainstream news media they traditionally serve.
- August 6, 2009 - 11:10am
A Conversation with Robert Jensen
by Becky GarrisonRobert 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.
- July 27, 2009 - 9:01am
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.
- July 21, 2009 - 6:01am
a review of A Vindication of Love Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century
by Cristina Nehring - July 8, 2009 - 10:00am
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.”
