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2021-12-08T07:50:20-06:00

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‘Angels Unawares’ Sculpture Welcomes the Stranger at Catholic U

Last updated on: December 8, 2021 at 7:50 am By Jack Hartjes

A sculpture visualizing one of Pope Francis’ key ideas stands on the campus of The Catholic University of America. “Angels Unawares” responds in concrete form to a verse in the Letter to the Hebrews: Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. (Hebrews 13:2) Pope Francis commissioned Angels Unawares, by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz, as a celebration of migrant people. The original is at home in the Vatican’s St.... Read more

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2021-12-08T05:48:04-06:00

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

Last updated on: December 8, 2021 at 5:48 am By Jack Hartjes

Will Roe v Wade survive the Supreme Court’s consideration of Alabama’s strict abortion law? Four New York Times writers hashed over the Supreme Court justices’ arguments on the first day of deliberations in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case involves a Mississippi law banning nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. It may also involve the fate of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that protects a woman’s right to choose abortion without... Read more

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2021-11-04T13:50:21-06:00

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

Last updated on: November 4, 2021 at 1:50 pm By Jack Hartjes

Giving God a story, 5. The last post on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for the Living God, Chapter 10, on the Trinity The previous post in this series concluded with the following take on the Triune God: God’s inner life resembles the way God has revealed God’s self to us. We have experienced that revelation in Gods affirming, challenging, and freeing actions in the world’s history. God affirms in creating and calling each part of creation good. God challenges through Jesus... Read more

Elizabeth Johnson

2021-11-03T06:05:41-06:00

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The Trinity in 3 Inflections: Perspectives on the Triune God

Last updated on: November 3, 2021 at 6:05 am By Jack Hartjes

Giving God a story, 4: The fourth of five posts on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for the Living God, Chapter 10, on the Trinity. Elizabeth Johnson has taken us through some adventures and misadventures of the doctrine of the Trinity. She started with Karl Rahner’s and, much later, my suspicion that the doctrine was being understood, if at all, in a way that made it irrelevant to piety. The way to avoid such abstraction, she said, is to start with the... Read more

Elizabeth Johnson

2021-10-29T11:04:16-06:00

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Three Persons in One God: How Not to Remain Silent

Last updated on: October 29, 2021 at 11:04 am By Jack Hartjes

Giving God a story, 3: The third of five posts on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for the Living God, Chapter 10, on the Trinity. In this post I’m dialoguing with and sometimes taking issue with, Elizabeth Johnson on the doctrinal issue of three Persons in one God, the Trinity. But there’s no disagreement here with her conclusion concerning the low point in the development of trinitarian theology, the subject of the last post. Johnson concludes: No wonder [the Trinity] has not... Read more

Elizabeth Johnson

2023-02-13T08:22:39-06:00

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

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:22 am By Jack Hartjes

Giving God a Story, 2: The second of five posts on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for the Living God, Chapter 10, on the Trinity. Elizabeth Johnson in Quest for the Living God joins a chorus in modern theology, starting in the last century, which has called for revitalizing Christian thinking about the Trinity. She wants that thinking to run in a different direction from what it has done in the not so long ago past. Then we started with the one... Read more

Elizabeth Johnson

2023-02-13T08:24:39-06:00

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

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:24 am By Jack Hartjes

The first of five post on Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for the Living God, Chapter 10, on the Trinity. God is perfect love. That must mean God didn’t just fall in love after creating a world to fall in love with – like Pygmalion falling in love with a statue he made. But what else is there for God to love? Maybe God is in love with God’s own self from all eternity, like another mythical Greek, Narcissus. That doesn’t seem... Read more

Elizabeth Johnson

2021-10-12T09:30:40-06:00

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Pres. Biden Proclaims Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Columbus Day

Last updated on: October 12, 2021 at 9:30 am By Jack Hartjes

President Joe Biden became the first president to declare the second Monday in October Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In a separate statement, October 8, he also proclaimed the same date Columbus Day. Both proclamations paid tribute to the sufferings imposed on Native American communities. They honored indigenous peoples contributions to the country’s life and culture. Three years ago I wrote about this issue after the city of Mankato, Minnesota, joined other cities in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In... Read more

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2021-10-06T09:54:32-06:00

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

Last updated on: October 6, 2021 at 9:54 am By Jack Hartjes

Forty faith leaders, including Pope Francis and other representatives of major religions published an appeal to the nations on October 4, the Feast of St. Francis. They called for urgent action on the “grave threat” facing all the peoples of the world from climate change. Faith leaders from the main Christian denominations, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and others signed off on the need for international political action to guard and heal our wounded humanity and our stressed planet. Pope Francis... Read more

Ecology

2023-02-13T08:29:41-06:00

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

Last updated on: February 13, 2023 at 8:29 am By Jack Hartjes

Imagine a person in a position of great influence and who lies about the danger of a virus and proper and improper medical interventions. Suppose as a result that virus kills half a million people that otherwise wouldn’t have died. I seems to me that liar would be guilty of that many murders. Now what is your moral risk if your political beliefs incline you to believe those lies? Say you take to social media to spread false information about... Read more

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