by Robin Kirk | Jun 17, 2011 | Robin Kirk
From the July 2011 issue of Sojourners. When Mel Gibson premiered The Passion of the Christ in 2004, pundits wondered if Hollywood seriously believed that movie-goers would pay millions to see yet another sandals-and-robes epic about the Holy Land, especially since...
by Robin Kirk | May 26, 2011 | Robin Kirk
In 1984, Mary Travers was a 23-year-old teacher born and raised in Belfast. Her father, Tom, was a magistrate. That may not seem a dangerous profession, yet the Travers family were Catholics. To the Irish Republican Army (IRA), any Catholics working for the state,...
by Robin Kirk | May 24, 2011 | Robin Kirk
It’s heady times for the Irish Isle, which in the past seven days has welcomed Queen Elizabeth II (the first visit of an English monarch since the Republic gained independence in 1922); the American president (whose forebear, Falmouth Kearney, was the immigrant...
by Robin Kirk | Apr 14, 2011 | Robin Kirk
My 12-year-old son has two categories of fear: the specific and the abstract. Sometimes, he jumps when our dog scrambles after the kitten. Night noises, even the winter hiss of a radiator, are scary. So are unexpected knocks at the front door and accidents we pass...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 21, 2011 | Robin Kirk
One of the most interesting things about the shift in the US position on Libya, to support a no-fly zone, is the role played by women leaders in urging military action to halt the killing of anti-Gadhafi rebels and civilians. As the New York Times reported over the...
by Robin Kirk | Mar 4, 2011 | Robin Kirk
Another piece in the International Herald Tribune by my student Archer Wang, cowritten by China hand Scott Savitt… By ARCHER WANG and SCOTT SAVITT “A single spark can start a prairie fire,” Chairman Mao famously declared, and a collective of young mainland- and...
