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April 2020

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 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 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 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...

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...

November 2019

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 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...

July 2019

July 05, 2019

Is Reform Possible, Within the Current Institutional Structure of the Church?

If the conclusion that the church needs restructuring cannot not be warranted, it seems to...

June 2019

June 08, 2019

It Is Never Appropriate to Tell Someone to “Cover Up” Because of Your Sexual Desires

It is never appropriate for one person to tell another “I am having sexual urges...

April 2019

April 05, 2019

No, the Phrase “Church Militant” Does Not Justify Militarism

The Gospel is clear about Jesus’ call to reject violence. We are admonished to love...

January 2019

January 12, 2019

A Pro-Life Gentleman Expresses his Concern to a Vulgar Strumpet

I do not think that he saves many babies with his attitude. It is unlikely...

December 2018

December 15, 2018

The Nihilistic Idolatry of Cruelty

Because this is what I am seeing in so much of American culture today. Not...

November 2018

November 25, 2018

If You’re Counting on Basic Human Decency to Stop Fascism, You May be Counting Wrong

We know all about the banality of evil. But that's not what we're seeing here....

November 21, 2018

View From the Eye of the Storm, Part Two: Suggestions For Church Reform

During homilies, we the people are encouraged to pray more. Try harder. Ask for forgiveness. ...

November 20, 2018

View From the Eye of the Storm, Part One: Observations on the Sex Abuse Scandal

The church has no built-in system of checks and balances. Currently, there is no standard...

November 14, 2018

Does the Catholic Church Have a Racism Problem?

Recently Catholic News Agency published an article about the potential cause for canonization of Sr....

November 14, 2018

Eternally Shielded in Rome: How They Protect Their Own

by guest writer MJ Lisbeth When you go to France, people expect you to...

November 09, 2018

Incivility Is Not the Problem

One of the strangest comments I saw, after the tragic mass shooting at Tree of...

November 04, 2018

Cruelty, Sentimentality, and Authoritarian Regimes

It makes me aware of how totalitarian regimes succeed. Not because people are evil, but...

November 01, 2018

“Nazi Gun Control Theory” is Antisemitic Victim-Blaming

No matter what the political agenda, we should be wary about making easy comparisons to...

October 2018

October 28, 2018

It Seems Like Everybody Gets It – Except the Leaders of the Church

When it comes to the power dynamics behind sexual assault, it seems everyone is finally...

October 20, 2018

Congratulations, Republicans: You’ve Succeeded In Making the Old Abortion Debates Irrelevant

When I first started writing here, I began teasing out the idea that we need...

October 16, 2018

Conservatives Comment on Sexual Assault: A Curious Inconsistency

I think I needed a little breathing time before writing about this issue without succumbing...

October 06, 2018

“But He’s A Good Person!”

That is how most sexual predators are able to go undetected for decades. If someone...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

What Is The Dispute Over Kavanaugh And His Accusers Really About?

The idea that the dispute is about abortion is undercut both by the fact that...

September 23, 2018

Victims Can’t Always Speak Out – And This Can Compound Trauma

It is necessary for the Church and other religious institutions, as well as our legal...

September 22, 2018

Bad Ethics, Bad Logic, and Sexual Assault Apologetics

Approaching sexual ethics this way is profoundly de-personalizing. It takes away agency and responsibility from...

September 17, 2018

It’s Not Puritanical To Object To Sexual Assault

It’s not puritanical for us to stick by the single sine qua non for a...

September 13, 2018

How Do You Respond When The Perpetrator Is One Of Your Own?

No matter how hard it is for us to accept that the men we viewed...