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March 2021

March 03, 2021

Catholics Are De-Toxing From their Experiences With Traumatic Religion. How You Respond to them Matters

Do you feel that the work people are doing to recover from religious trauma is...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

How Has the Pandemic Changed Us? Has It Changed Us Enough?

Unfortunately, I fear that as a collective society the pandemic has not sufficiently awakened us...

February 21, 2021

Rush Limbaugh Would Never Have Succeeded In an Ethical Society

Right-minded folks should never have responded to slurs directed against AIDS sufferers, non-white children, and...

February 15, 2021

People are in Therapy to Recover from Religion – We Need to Ask Why

Religion ought to be, not a bulwark for oppressive powers, but a solace for the...

January 2021

January 31, 2021

Who Speaks for the Church? And Which Church?

We are still not willing to address with brutal honesty how gravely the church, our...

January 19, 2021

Words for Those Feeling Disinherited

Trump’s anti-other rhetoric has had the effect of making hatred acceptable. He has created convenient...

January 12, 2021

Conspiracy Theories, Alternate Reality, and the Perils of Totalitarian Religion

A sacramental imagination should engage us with what is real and present. It should not...

January 07, 2021

A Martyrdom Of Our Own Making

By claiming persecution right now, some Christians have embraced the evil that is being fought...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

What Is Wrong With the Christian Religion?

White supremacists should hate and fear all that the church stands for. Yet look how...

December 09, 2020

In the Darkness of Advent, Hope Arises

It seems that true Advent hope only rises as we walk the path from darkness—including...

November 2020

November 26, 2020

The Economy of Francis – Both Saint and Pope

The hungry, homeless, unemployed, underemployed, refugees, and all destitute fellow human beings desperately need, and...

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 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 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...

June 2020

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...

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 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...

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 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...

January 2020

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...

December 2019

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...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

Is There A Fundamental Flaw In the Institutional Church’s Approach To Sex Ethics?

It is notable that while the Church has often been on the forefront in issues...