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June 05, 2022

Muslim Call to Prayer will sound in Minneapolis Streets

The Minneapolis City Council in March approved a resolution to allow the public broadcast of...

April 2022

April 19, 2022

Trickle-Up Economics, Natural but not Inevitable, History Shows

Thinking about Debt with Michael Hudson Jesus, a non-believer in trickle-up economics, chases the money...

April 11, 2022

Kneeling Through the Communion Rite: Now I Get It

Why do we kneel during the Communion Rite? A small change in liturgical procedure...

March 2022

March 21, 2022

Anthony Annett Applies Catholic Social Teaching to Economics of Rich and Poor

Virtue and economics go together in the work of Anthony Annett. In an age that...

March 19, 2022

The Nicene Creed: Thinking with the Bishop Barron Lectures – The First Three Words

My parish, St. Raphael’s in Springfield, Minnesota, has begun an adult education course on the...

March 14, 2022

The Eye of a needle and the Man who would Earn Eternal Life

Two individuals ask Jesus the same question. Two straightforward answers are given, but they are...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

Righteousness – In Luke It’s More than Being on the Right Side

A massacre in the Temple and a fatal tower collapse – stories, or maybe rumors....

February 15, 2022

A Literal Cross Waiting for Those who Join Jesus’ Crew

A quote from William Stringfellow, Dissenter in a Great Society illustrates how hard it is...

February 07, 2022

The Rich Fool and the Rent We Pay for Our Place on Earth

We remember Jesus’ words near the beginning of Chapter 12 in Luke’s Gospel: “Do not...

February 01, 2022

While Debt Sinks Nations, Some Hear Jesus’ Call for Jubilee

At Mass on the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, I paid special attention to the...

January 2022

January 23, 2022

Temptations in the Desert –the End of Luke’s (Second?) ‘Introduction’

Sixth in a series on social justice in the Gospel of Luke. It’s standard to...

January 18, 2022

While Debt Sinks Nations, Some Hear Jesus’ Call for Jubilee

Last Sunday, the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, I paid special attention to the reading...

January 11, 2022

Poverty and Power – Messiah’s Story Has Two Visible Contexts

I suppose I ought to say that the two contexts of Jesus’ ministry on earth...

January 09, 2022

Ministries in the Church, Momentum for Change, Again

It was 1980 or a year or two later, and I was making a decision...

January 05, 2022

God’s Army: Jesus Appraises Two Volunteers and a Recruit

In Luke’s Gospel three would-be followers of Jesus find that they have to pass a...

January 05, 2022

God’s Army: Jesus Appraises Two Volunteers and a Recruit

In Luke’s Gospel three would-be followers of Jesus find that they have to pass a...

January 03, 2022

Introducing John Howard Yoder, ‘The Politics of Jesus’

"The Politics of Jesus" by John Howard Yoder first published in 1972 greatly influenced...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

Cancel culture, Karens, Restorative Justice, and a Prostitute in Luke’s Gospel

“Jesus was not about social justice.” “The Gospel of Luke is a social justice Gospel,...

December 20, 2021

God’s Favor (in the Angel’s Song) Rests on … Whom?

Luke’s Gospel gives us a translation puzzle that has been solved to my satisfaction and...

December 14, 2021

Does Copernicus Have to be Wrong? Or, How the Bible Likes Modern Science

What Nicolai Copernicus said is right. Earth revolves around the Sun, along with all the...

December 08, 2021

‘Angels Unawares’ Sculpture Welcomes the Stranger at Catholic U

A sculpture visualizing one of Pope Francis’ key ideas stands on the campus of The...

December 06, 2021

Roe v Wade Debate Begins in Supreme Court; NY Times Writers Take Sides.

Will Roe v Wade survive the Supreme Court's consideration of Alabama's strict abortion law?...

November 2021

November 04, 2021

God’s Love Story: Before the Creation of the World until Now and to forever

Giving God a story, 5. The last post on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for the Living...

November 01, 2021

The Trinity in 3 Inflections: Perspectives on the Triune God

Giving God a story, 4: The fourth of five posts on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for...

October 2021

October 29, 2021

Three Persons in One God: How Not to Remain Silent

Giving God a story, 3: The third of five posts on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for...

October 28, 2021

Theology Changes: Adventures and Misadventures of the Doctrine of the Trinity

Giving God a Story, 2: The second of five posts on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for...

October 27, 2021

Perfect and Changing? Giving God a Story. Elizabeth Johnson Writes on the Trinity

The first of five post on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for the Living God, Chapter 10,...

October 12, 2021

Pres. Biden Proclaims Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Columbus Day

President Joe Biden became the first president to declare the second Monday in October Indigenous...

October 06, 2021

Faith Leaders on Climate Change: “Future Generations Will Never Forgive us If …”

Forty faith leaders, including Pope Francis and other representatives of major religions published an appeal...

August 2021

August 30, 2021

Moral Risk in an Age of Disinformation and a Culture of Death

Imagine a person in a position of great influence and who lies about the danger...

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