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June 2016

June 07, 2016

dear christians defending rapists: your prejudice is showing

Our existing prison systems do nothing to eradicate rape mentality: they only shift the focus,...

June 06, 2016

confessing the sin of racism

Looking back, I am ashamed. Now I wish to mend whatever flaw in my soul...

June 05, 2016

the bombing of hiroshima, the case of jane laut, and our immoral preferential option for the powerful

Or is it that we who laud death-dealing violence as an aspect of manliness, the...

June 03, 2016

scapegoating, nature, and narcissism: some thoughts on the cincinnati zoo incident

It is ironic that in our quest to overcome all boundaries, we have enclosed other...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

party loyalty is not important. it isn’t even a good idea

I've lived through sixeen years of two different Hitlers and, amazingly, lived to tell the...

May 27, 2016

no, a vote for a third party is not “a vote for candidate X” (unless the world is more absurd than I expected)

A vote for a third party is not a vote for Hillary. Nor is it...

May 26, 2016

love, death, time: the myth of the cicadas

Outraged at the divine, I decided I was tired of being good, and would begin...

May 25, 2016

is a bourgeois version of charity inhibiting social change?

In the July 2012 issue of Yes! magazine, Peter Dreier writes about "The Radical Dissent...

May 23, 2016

a window might not open, and you might be given more than you can handle: the clamor of insufficient explanations

In Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the atheist brother Ivan refuses to believe in a God...

May 21, 2016

is it okay to put your enemies in a book? the strange moral discipline of fiction writing

Faulkner spoke of the conflict of the heart as the "only thing worth writing about,"...

May 19, 2016

pope francis goes medieval on “bloodsucking bosses”

While repeatedly, throughout history, lust for wealth and power has driven humans to clever interpretations...

May 18, 2016

archdiocese of chicago gets it right on parental leave, but will others follow?

Can an organization do an examination of conscience? No, but those who oversee it can....

May 18, 2016

another oil spill? we need to change our lives

Crews are working to clean up over 88,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the...

May 17, 2016

pray for peace o jerusalem

if I catch the light just right, my sloth might look like virtue, indifference like...

May 16, 2016

jesus loves your fat: why fat-shaming is not christian

Jesus loves us, fat and all. Self-loathing and all.

May 14, 2016

what’s so comforting about a tongue of fire or descending dove?

I can't imagine that God really wants us keeling over and babbling. Communication and unity...

May 12, 2016

now is the time to be whole life

Think how radical this could be.

May 10, 2016

an alternative to the fantasy of domination: eco gardening as religious devotion

Travel into space: a Cartesian trip, a technological escape of the mind (real or artificial)...

May 09, 2016

family values should not be a first-world privilege

What I found reading the story of the Mother's Day event, and perusing the comments,...

May 04, 2016

what will republican catholics do now?

If you are supporting Trump because of his stance on the economy, immigration, Muslims, or...

May 02, 2016

modesty, it turns out, is a thing – but not the thing they said it was

We often hear sermons or admonitions against scanty dress in women, but rarely do we...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

you actually might not want to be so quick to criticize those who are opposing that polish abortion bill

I don’t advocate abortion as the answer to this impossibility. I advocate making better choices...

April 26, 2016

tearing the veil: a contemporary catholic practice and its complicated history

To return to our original topic: can we say that the contemporary practice of veiling...

April 25, 2016

catholic women, (un) veiled: new perspectives on an old practice

I still have no desire to veil myself, though I may occasionally sport a fedora,...

April 24, 2016

a prayer for michael voris

It is not possible to function in a whole and healthy manner if one is...

April 21, 2016

the music we need to keep on dancing: in memoriam, prince

There are artists that accompany us from the dark places to the bright, who give...

April 21, 2016

a reflection on the radical christian feminism of charlotte brontë, on the bicentennial of her birth

The term "feminist" was not invented yet, in Charlotte Brontë's day, but I will permit...

April 20, 2016

happy birthday to my dad…and to adolf hitler?

For this Jewish Catholic, this challenge to believe takes one down a very strange path,...

April 18, 2016

the unbearable boringness of promiscuity

Because eros is not the same as sex. Sex can be an aspect of the...

April 14, 2016

the immodest consequences of modesty policing

With all the complaints that are made - justifiably- about the hyper-sexualization of the female...

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