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June 2020

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 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 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...

December 2019

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 05, 2019

Drag Queens, Liberalism, and Integralists – Oh My!

Ask yourself, would you want most of today’s bishops and priests having some oversight over...

October 2019

October 04, 2019

Lost In Translation: How Christians Frequently Misunderstand Judaism

How do we find unity? We try our best to love one another and engage...

September 2019

September 21, 2019

Religious Leaders Keep Finding Demons Everywhere, While Ignoring Actual Evil

Writing for audiences both inside and outside of religious circles keeps me attuned to how...

September 07, 2019

To Reform the Church, We Must Rethink, Repair, or Replace Its Failed Institutions

I’m saying that the Catholic church needs to rethink the institutions it has relied on,...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

It’s Not the Church That Has Let Me Down – It’s the Clergy

The church has not let me down but popes and bishops have, too often and...

June 13, 2019

What Makes a Religious Practice “Demonic”?

So yes, I do think we should ask whether a particular religious practice inclines towards...

May 2019

May 10, 2019

Women Deacons, Rachel Held Evans, and the Pushback of Patriarchy

Pope Francis’ announcement, a few days ago, that the results of the commission to study...