Brian Hamilton-Vise

I know that what I am asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand. —James Baldwin

Piety and Violence

At a market in Jerusalem, two Israeli soldiers. Young men, with nice backpacking backpacks, wearing yarmulkas and carrying sub-machine guns. Not just armed with them either, but carrying them: spinning them around in their hands. —31 May, 3pm.

1 June 2007 | Comments (0)
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Brian Hamilton-Vise is a Ph.D. student in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame, where his research is in the history of Christian political and economic thought. His side interests are in the development of negative theology and in recent political theory. Email him at bdhamilton@gmail.com.

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