Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentRacial Disparities in the Death Penalty“Race plays a decisive role in the question of who lives and dies by execution.”3 min read·Mar 7, 2022----
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentRacism and AbortionBlack Leaders Speak5 min read·Feb 28, 2022----
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentA Healing Metaphor: Pandemic as WarThe language is everywhere: we’re at war against an invisible enemy, adjusting to new realities of wartime living and expressing gratitude…3 min read·Dec 12, 2020----
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentTo Know a Person is to Recognize a HumanMethodist theologian Stanley Hauerwas once wrote, “My Uncle Charlie is not much of a person but he is still my Uncle Charlie.” This…4 min read·Oct 6, 2020----
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentWhat Does It Mean to Be Inconsistent?Consistent Life Network President John Whitehead once put a question to fellow consistent-lifers: does it necessarily make sense to call…4 min read·Aug 22, 2020----
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentJustice Littered with Injustice: Viewing Just Mercy in a Charged MomentThe film Just Mercy (Warner Brothers, 2019) follows attorney Bryan Stevenson’s early career as founding director of the Equal Justice…5 min read·Aug 20, 2020--1--1
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentDefining Reproductive Justice: An EncounterIn the summer of 2018, I helped to represent the Consistent Life Network, of which I am a board member, at the Wild Goose Festival, an…5 min read·Aug 17, 2020----
Julia SmuckerinThe Secular Seamless GarmentThe Price of Violence: When Dehumanizing the Vulnerable Hurts One’s Own CausesProgressive and conservative analysts have noted how attachments to Roe v Wade and Trumpism have damaged their respective movements’…4 min read·Aug 16, 2020----