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Navigating the Tension Between Freedom and Obedience

Society requires people to work together to promote the common good. It should be obvious...

January 27, 2025

Mississippi’s Bill: A Step Towards Modern-Day Slavery?

It is sadly obvious to me that many of the social advances we have seen...

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December 06, 2024

God’s Plan For Creation Is Theosis Not Perdition

God created everything, making it all good. To be sure, it is not good in...

October 2024

October 23, 2024

The Righteousness Of James

Eastern tradition says that James, the brother of the lord, is Jesus’ brother, not by...

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September 22, 2024

We Should Learn From The Story Of Jonah

The prophet Jonah famously misunderstood his prophetic mission; he understood God’s pathos against social unjust...

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PRS* XI Remembering A Story

When I was in first grade, we had a teacher’s aide who came from Hawaii. ...

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June 25, 2024

Personal Reflections And Speculations (*PRS) IV: The CCHD

While it would be wrong to say all Protestants think alike, the popular form of...

June 02, 2024

We Must Follow What Truth Tells Us To Do

It’s not what you know, but what you do which is important. Studying and learning...

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March 12, 2024

The Obligations Of Charity Transcend Those Of Justice

What is given out of love is greater, more invaluable, than what is given in...

March 04, 2024

Responding To Abuse Coming From The Institutional Church

The institutional church has faced and continues to face scandal after scandal because many who...

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God Reigns With Equity

Each and every human person shares with each other the one and the same human...

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December 28, 2023

Christian Nationalism And The Denial Of Justice

One of the worst forms of Christianity is Christian Nationalism. To follow its principles, Christians...

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November 26, 2023

Wake Up To Injustices

Christianity is meant to be a religion of enlightenment; we are meant to awaken from...

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Blessed Are Those Who Hunger And Thirst For Justice

Jesus commends those who seek for justice (δῐκαιοσῠ́νη, often translated as righteousness), saying that they...

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September 21, 2023

Eschatological Justice

One of the great Christian hopes, a hope which is not uniquely Christian but something...

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July 06, 2023

Divine Law, Justice And Grace

James warns us not to take the divine “law” in any of its variations in...

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April 13, 2023

The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine In Light Of Pacem In Terris

It has been sixty years since Pope St. John XXXIII wrote the encyclical Pacem in...

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February 23, 2023

Prison Reform

From Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead, reflecting upon his own prison experience, to The Shawshank...

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January 31, 2023

We Must Reform The Institutional Church When It Loses Its Way

Jesus told us we are to be the salt of the earth, but warns would...

January 22, 2023

Zacchaeus Shows Us The Way Beyond Injustice

Zacchaeus, even if he tried to be an ethical tax collector, still was a tax...

January 16, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Interfaith Witness

Martin Luther King Jr. understood that the civil rights movement needed to bring all of...

December 2022

December 21, 2022

We Must Not Become Like Frank Pavone

When a particular, limited good, is treated as or turned into the absolute good, those...

December 14, 2022

Law, Order, And The Common Good

If we are not careful, law and order can be used as a tool to...

September 2022

September 01, 2022

A Hair Cut, Racism, And South Dakota

When we ignore history, the mistakes and sins of the past are bound to be...

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August 24, 2022

Society Must Help The Exploited Pay Off Their Debts

Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath showed us the way people, trying to better themselves, can...

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July 21, 2022

Truth And Compassion Are Necessary In Discussions On Abortion

Christians are expected to be “speaking the truth in love” (Eph. 4:15a RSV), for, as...

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June 19, 2022

The End Of Slavery

On June 19, 1865, General Granger declared some good news in Texas: slavery was no...

June 09, 2022

CRT And Thomas Aquinas: Contra Ed Feser

Ed Feser announced that he has written a book about Critical Race Theory (CRT), All...

June 01, 2022

There Is No Charity Without Justice

True charity, caritas, is love. If we want to act with true charity, love would...

April 2022

April 21, 2022

New Bills And Laws Would Make Jesus A Criminal

“And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests;...

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