Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
Catholic

2023-02-13T09:06:19-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Protesters and Rioters: In Minneapolis There’s a Big Difference.

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 9:06 am By Jack Hartjes

An on-the-spot reporter for Twin Cities WCCO TV thinks the country will look at Minneapolis and find an example of how to both protest and uphold the law. One can hope so. Last night Minnesotans demonstrated that there’s a big difference between protesters and rioters. After days of violent confrontation, Saturday and Sunday saw peaceful civil disobedience and well-organized, measured responses by police and national guard. I’m still waiting for clarity on the issue of outsiders vs. Minnesotans. In my... Read more

Social Justice

Uncategorized

2023-02-13T09:06:48-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Racism and Sympathies and Minneapolis Riots

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 9:06 am By Jack Hartjes

Do you sympathize with owners of looted stores? I do … but not too much. Friends and relatives are disputing back and forth on Facebook about the now-alleged murder and subsequent riots in Minneapolis. They include a son and daughter-in-law who live a mile from the site of the police killing. Others live far from my home state of Minnesota. Some express sympathy for the rioters and, of course, George Floyd and his family. They recall many other incidents of... Read more

Social Justice

Uncategorized

2021-10-28T10:55:59-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Religion, Non-Reductive and Saturated, Gains Respect in Post-Modern Academic World

Last updated on: October 28, 2021 at 10:55 am By Jack Hartjes

Some tricky vocabulary in Tracy’s Fragments, Chapter One A philosophical dictionary or some background in phenomenology is useful in reading David Tracy’s Fragments. Like when he says, “It may well be, as several contemporary phenomenologists claim, that religion is the nonreductive saturated phenomenon par excellence.” (p. 20) It’s no secret that modern academic thought in general has not been particularly kind to religion. Tracy includes even some theological theories in that modern anti-religious, or better, anti-God sentiment. Much of the... Read more

Tracy

2021-10-28T10:43:04-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Fragments Disrupt Oppressive Systems: David Tracy’s ‘Fragments’

Last updated on: October 28, 2021 at 10:43 am By Jack Hartjes

On Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time, “Introduction” The first of David Tracy’s two new volumes of essays is about fragments and also a collection of fragments. As I begin this series of posts on Tracy’s latest published work, I have in mind a few key ideas. They are fragments, the other, and the infinite, topics among which Tracy’s more recent thoughts have wandered. At the moment I’m thinking mostly of fragments. Dangerous fragments I see three ways Tracy... Read more

Tracy

2021-10-28T10:35:29-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

David Tracy, Theologian for the ‘Publics,’ Publishes Two New Books

Last updated on: October 28, 2021 at 10:35 am By Jack Hartjes

Out This Year — Fragments: The Existential Situation of our Time and Filaments: Theological Profiles For a David Tracy fan, it’s been a long wait – 25 years since his last book. This year Chicago University Press published a two-volume collection of Tracy’s essays. Since his last book, On Naming the Present: God, Hermeneutics, and Church, the academic world has been waiting for the “God book” that Tracy has been promising. It doesn’t appear that these collections of essays are... Read more

Tracy

2023-04-15T05:41:40-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Economic Scarcity and Eucharistic Abundance: Two Stories about the World

Last updated on: April 15, 2023 at 5:41 am By Jack Hartjes

Part 7 on Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire Economy, says William T. Cavanaugh in the final chapter of Being Consumed, is “the science that studies the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity.” (p. 90) What happens when things, in fact, aren’t scarce? Say, in the United States, in an economy that produces everything in previously unheard of abundance? This economy continues to exist, and exist powerfully, by creating scarcity. This economy takes advantage of something philosophers have known... Read more

Being Consumed

Eucharist

Social Justice

2023-02-13T09:08:28-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Septima Poinsette Clark, Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 9:08 am By Jack Hartjes

Common Prayer for Ordinary Radicals, in its May 3 entry, tells about one who was teacher, civil rights activist, and “grandmother of the civil rights movement.” I’m continuing my “Ordinary Radicals” series with Septima Poinsette Clark. Biography.com, Stanford’s King Institute, State University, and Wikipedia are my other sources. Septima Poinsette was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1898. Her father, Peter Poinsette, had been a slave on the Poinsette farm. As house servant, he took children to and from school. After slavery... Read more

Social Justice

Uncategorized

2023-02-13T09:09:00-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

The DREAM Act was Introduced in Congress First by … Not a Democrat!

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 9:09 am By Jack Hartjes

Stories from the Magazine of the Catholic University of America My copy of “Catholic,” the Magazine of The Catholic University of America arrived. This spring issue had a theme, and I found much more to read than usual. The theme was immigrants in the U.S. and university and student activism in that area. University president John Garvey’s lead-off essay told me something I never would have guessed. The first DREAM Act, in 2001, was introduced in Congress by Utah Republican... Read more

Social Justice

Uncategorized

2023-04-15T05:43:13-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Thin Places, McDonald’s World, and the Difference the Eucharist Makes

Last updated on: April 15, 2023 at 5:43 am By Jack Hartjes

Part 6 on Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire A few years back a Presbyterian pastor gave a sermon on thin places. I hadn’t heard that term before but have several times since. Thin places are places “where the distance between heaven and earth collapses and we’re able to catch glimpses of the divine, or the transcendent….” That’s how a New York Times article describes them. Travel brochures say there are a lot of thin places in Ireland and Scotland. ... Read more

Being Consumed

Eucharist

Social Justice

2020-04-19T09:03:31-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

About Butterflies and the Afterlife — A Neat Thought Heard on Public Radio

Last updated on: April 19, 2020 at 9:03 am By Jack Hartjes

One of the reasons I like national public radio is that it recognizes that religion is a part of America’s life and treats religious beliefs without ridicule or cynicism. Saturday it was about butterflies, the afterlife, and an experiment on what happens to a caterpillar’s memory in the pupa stage. Since it’s Easter time and we’re talking butterflies (actually moths in the experiment), the symbolism concerning life after death was just below the surface. The radio presenters didn’t hesitate to... Read more

Uncategorized

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

Where did God tell Moses to remove his shoes because it was holy ground?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Red Sea At the burning bush Egyptian palace Mount Sinai

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Advent Christmas Amazon Synod Angels Being Consumed Bible Catholic Modern Creed Ecology Economics Elizabeth Johnson Eucharist Fragments and Filaments Gender and Sex Gospel of Mark Herzog Historical Jesus Liturgy Luke Opening Scriptures on Way to Emmaus Ordinary radicals Parables Pro-Life Reincarnation Rosary Sacraments science Social Justice Souls Stories of Jesus The Creed Torture and Eucharist Tracy Uncategorized War and Peace

Select a Month October 2026 June 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 November 2024 July 2024 March 2024 December 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018

TRENDING AT PATHEOS Catholic