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October 2020

October 04, 2020

We Are All Called To Question Within Our Faith Tradition

Not just the leaders, not just the theologians, but all Christians are called to ponder...

September 2020

September 27, 2020

Theological Foundations, and the Importance of Tradition

Tradition, then, in the broadest sense, is the language in which a community recognizes itself...

September 26, 2020

White Privilege and Hypocrisy on Display in Catholic Opposition to Racial Justice Activists

And what is happening now has happened before. It has happened here. But since it...

September 21, 2020

We Shall Have Our Anger. We Shall Have Our Sorrow

People tell us that sorrow and anger are unproductive , and I don't believe it....

September 17, 2020

No, Flannery O’Connor Has Not Been Canceled

I think many of O’Connor’s fans can handle the vision of redemption that she presents...

September 07, 2020

Facing this Election, We Must Recall the Church’s Teachings on the Dignity and Rights of the Worker

When we talk about "good Catholic" employers, and "good Catholics" schools or universities, we should...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

What Do You Mean When You Say a Politician is “Pro Life”? A Historical Comparison

Every presidential election year, the same debate returns to Catholic circles: may a...

August 08, 2020

Toxic Masculinity: What It Is, and What It isn’t

What we are objecting to is not men. We are objecting to immorality. And for...

August 03, 2020

Why Supremacy Never Delivers Freedom: Recovering the True Meaning of the Cross

The arc of history will indeed bend again towards justice if Christians everywhere can in...

August 01, 2020

How White Men Lost the Meaning of Redemption

by guest writer Sean O’Conaill Part I – Redemption as Freedom “The cross stands...

July 2020

July 26, 2020

The Value and Necessity of Inter-Religious Dialogue

Religious communities, whatever else they are about, are about love, hope and faith. They are...

July 18, 2020

It Is Clear By Now that We Are Not All In This Together

The world watches in horror as our numbers go up. And the world closes its...

July 08, 2020

Some Considerations For Atheists In Dialogue With Christians

Do they know that God does not exist and how do they do so? Do...

July 05, 2020

What Can We Learn From Atheism?

When we begin to explore our reasons for knowledge or belief we quickly realize that...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

History May Not Repeat, But It Rhymes: Trump’s Tulsa Rally

Eventually, Trump’s search for scapegoats (“really bad people”) will backfire. Yet the damage he has already...

June 16, 2020

Why Are We Flying “Treason’s Flaunting Rag”? A Military Historian Considers

The legacy of the slaver's rebellion is one that haunts our nation to this day....

June 08, 2020

On Retiring Happy and Still Perplexed

Why did I get caught up intellectually in the intricacies of knowledge, faith and belief? ...

June 04, 2020

Yes, White People Need to Say Something About Racial Issues – But We Don’t Need to Say a Whole Lot

And finally, here’s a simple question. Can you say “Black Lives Matter”? Can you say...

May 2020

May 25, 2020

The Demand to Open Churches Is the Opposite of Christ-Like

Jesus taught that we ought to be willing to die for him. Yet here we...

May 22, 2020

Today, I Am Ashamed of the United States

How can we call ourselves a “Christian nation” when, instead of standing in collective mourning...

May 15, 2020

What Are We Willing To Sacrifice, To Get Through the Pandemic?

Will we be willing to sacrifice some of the pleasures of our precious “American” way...

May 11, 2020

How We Speak About Death

For Christians who believe in the resurrection of the body it seems evasive to talk...

May 03, 2020

How to Stop Talking Nonsense: The Myth of Redemptive Suffering

We must learn to speak words of peace that are not nonsense; words that are...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

What Unites Us? How Christians Can Learn From Jews

We earlier discussed how Christians and Jews are united. Now we need to look at...

April 20, 2020

In The Midst of Pandemic, The Personal Is Political, More than Ever

What they are actually demanding, even if they do not realize it, is not freedom...

April 19, 2020

Christians And Jews: What Binds Us Together?

By guest writer Gregory Eran Gronbacher I’ve repeated this wry aphorism so many times...

April 10, 2020

The Danger of Faith Without Evidence, Religion Without Immanence

The danger of rejecting the moral significance of earthly life, the here and now, in...

March 2020

March 27, 2020

Knowing God, and Wondering Still: How Doubting Fits A Life of Faith

How does doubting fit in a life of faith? It fits a constantly reforming life...

March 24, 2020

Right Wing Leaders Propose Human Sacrifice To Prop Up the One Percent

What people like Dan Patrick and R.R. Reno are proposing is literally human sacrifice. That...

March 16, 2020

What Is Knowledge? Religion, Atheism, and Belief

“God,”again by definition, isn’t in any sense a thing. God is a No-thing, whatever that...

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