The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope

 Here is a link to the YouTube video for my lecture on December 2, 2021. https://youtu.be/Ohjkkk1W1gk

  THE PANDEMIC AND MORALITY EXPOSED – LEGAL AND MORAL PERSPECTIVES ©Wendell Griffen, 2021 University of Pretoria School of Law University of Pretoria School of Theology and Religion December 2, 2021, 10:00 A.M. (Central Standard Time)               In my first lecture ( Vaccination or Not:   Legal and Religious Perspectives ), I analyzed the issue of vaccine hesitancy and legal and religious issues surrounding vaccination mandates related to the SARS-19 coronavirus pandemic. I said that vaccine hesitancy is not affected by whether governments have the power to mandate vaccinations. Also, vaccine hesitancy related to the SARS-19 coronavirus is not driven by whether and how personal liberty – including religious – concerns of unvaccinated persons are accommodated.   Rather, opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the US is based on moral incompetence. Politicians are deliberately weaponizing that ...

TWO WORDS THAT EXPLAIN THE KYLE RITTENHOUSE ACQUITTAL VERDICT – THEY ARE NOT “SELF-DEFENSE” © Wendell Griffen, 2021       On November 19, 2021, a jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, first degree reckless homicide, attempted first-degree homicide, and two counts of reckless endangerment.   Rittenhouse shot two people to death and wounded a third person on August 23, 2020. The people he shot were protesting the August 20, 2020, shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer. Video of the police officer shooting Blake in the back seven times – as Blake’s small children were present – sparked public demonstrations in Kenosha and elsewhere. Rittenhouse, who was seventeen years old at the time, drove from his hometown in Antioch, Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin, claiming that he did so to help protect property from looting and destruction. According to his trial ...