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March 2020

March 12, 2020

Reading Plague Novels In a Time of Pandemic

Still, King’s novel - as well as Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, and novels dealing with historical...

March 10, 2020

COVID-19 and Religion: Rash Providentialism Is Going To Get People Killed

“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours....

March 09, 2020

Variations on Atheism, and Atheists’ Views on Religion

Other atheists go a good bit beyond The New Atheism and regard religion as a...

March 06, 2020

In Case You Were Wondering, We Still Need Feminism

The women who are mourning the fact that Warren dropped out of the race -...

March 01, 2020

Atheists and Christians: Are Atheists Deficient In Love?

Allow me to make two distinctions. Among other things in my years of research I...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

The Inevitable Impotence of Male-Only “Authority”

For the Holy Spirit to accomplish God’s good works through members of the Body of...

February 19, 2020

Do Catholic Feminists Wish to Smash the Church’s Patriarchy?

The idea of patriarchy is connected with the idea of dominion, and of orders of...

February 16, 2020

The Flawed Nuptial Imagery in Querida Amazonia – What Can Women Do?

Basically, you're wedded to a groom who is not actually Jesus, but a Jesus-impersonator. He’s...

February 13, 2020

It’s Not the Divisiveness That Is the Problem

Dial the clock back sixty years: were we united, as a nation, at a time...

February 08, 2020

Reclaiming Our Bodies As Subjects: Women and the Objectifying Gaze

What if, instead of judging what a woman in the world represents to a particular...

February 01, 2020

Yes, This Is Who We Are: The United States and Our History of Injustice

This is who we are. We came to this continent, stole it from those who...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Trump’s Attendance At the March For Life Is Significant – But Not In the Way His Supporters Claim

With Trump as their figurehead, the pro-life movement now looks, to anyone outside his cult...

January 18, 2020

Know Your Dogwhistles! Recognizing Anti-Semitism Is the First Step

I have written before about how there is an antisemitism problem among Catholics of the...

January 17, 2020

We Need To Talk About Sexism In Politics

It is impossible for any woman to take the lead in this society without being...

January 12, 2020

Those Who Shamed Us For Immorality Are Now Its Biggest Defenders: The Gaslighting Cycle of the Christian Trump Supporter

The hypocrisy of those who claim to defend decency while standing up for everything that...

January 10, 2020

Reducing Abortion Rates and Protecting Women’s Rights Are Goals That Can and Should Co-Exist

The important thing is, we do agree that a right to life is real, and...

January 07, 2020

It is Time For Us To Decide: What is Christianity Going to Mean?

Is Christianity a religion of empire and nationalism, of “might makes right,” of walls and...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

A Year-End Retrospective: Looking Back on Failure

It is our work, heavy work, tiring work, work where we often miss our turning...

December 30, 2019

It Can Happen Anywhere

"You know what was the worst part? Being betrayed by your friends, and knowing the SS...

December 28, 2019

So What If Jesus Wasn’t Poor or a Refugee?

The corrupt prelates who persecuted the mendicants wanted to water down the radicality of Jesus’s...

December 21, 2019

Christmas Is For Everyone, Not Only the True Believers

If we believe that God really came into this world for the salvation of all,...

December 17, 2019

Waiting In Darkness, For the Savior Who Never Came

Right now we are in the time before the coming of a savior, so our...

December 15, 2019

Dreaming a Dream of What the Church Could Be

The one church should get over the differences that seem to divide it by means...

December 10, 2019

The Message of Advent is a Message of Justice for the Oppressed

These advent readings about justice and judgment - should we read them with hope, or...

December 06, 2019

Obsession With Feminine Submissiveness Serves Men – Not God

The history of women advancing salvation history in both the Old and the New Testaments...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Silent No More: A Survivor’s Message of Gratitude

For those who have not believed me, who have openly mocked me, called me a...

November 25, 2019

Object To Student Loan Forgiveness? This is Neither Ethical, Practical, Nor Christian

The conversation about student loan forgiveness has come around again, and once again we are...

November 24, 2019

Which Families Matter? Rethinking the Idea of “Parental Rights”

For Christians, especially, who invented the term “family values”: if we genuinely believe in protecting...

November 17, 2019

What Lies At the Root Of the Denial Of “Ecological Sin”?

In the past, repeatedly, experts on ecology have issued dire warnings regarding the effects of...

November 11, 2019

No, Celibacy Is Not the Problem

No, the kink in the clerical moral life is not celibacy, and of this I...

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