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October 2016

October 14, 2016

voting for trump for the sake of religious freedom? you’re making a mistake

Here’s my issue with Trump; he’s actually proposed banning a religion. He incoherently implied he...

October 02, 2016

the difficult and uncomfortable non-negotiables of the gospel teaching

Why don’t we emphasize violence – any violence, for any reason – as the primary...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

has “pro-life” become just a brand?

Just as a sports fan obsessively cheers for his team even after it's traded his...

September 10, 2016

looking back on 9/11, seeking a sacramentality in emptiness

And here's what I keep asking myself: is there a sacramentality in absence, or in...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

anthems, pledges, and religious liberty: why I sit with kaepernick

In fact, the realm of athletics has been an important space for the exposing of...

August 27, 2016

being catholic and jewish (or jewish and catholic?)

Being a Jewish Catholic means I can fit in with neither Right nor Left -...

August 23, 2016

catholicity is what we receive

Even as I questioned this or that thing that supposedly was “official” Church teaching, I...

August 21, 2016

catholic and feminist: identity, action, and faith

Looking anew at Mary and other female saints – looking anew at the women of...

August 18, 2016

you can walk away from the sinner, but you can’t walk away from the sin

You are not pure. You can not walk away from the sinner; because you are...

August 12, 2016

the “ugly feminist” and the christian ethos

Women who do not conform to societal standards for prettiness or femininity are reviled by...

August 02, 2016

pope francis establishes “commission of study on the diaconate of women”

If this does not permit the restoration of a female diaconate, perhaps it will open...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

reactionary catholicism: o’connor’s church of christ without christ

Without Christ's sacrifice, we are left with the need to make, over and over again,...

July 15, 2016

turning to religion in times of violence: why we pray

We all need to take seriously the challenge posed to our beliefs, by history. I...

July 08, 2016

rejecting the glamour of evil: a pledge of non-violence

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

July 07, 2016

in case you do not know, or choose not to recall, what the church teaches on islam

the church DOES encourage unity with Muslims, reconciliation with them, respect for them, and a...

July 04, 2016

let’s not call violent extremists “muslims” anymore

Why do we not join together in shocked horror to mourn those killed in these...

July 01, 2016

war, abortion, and liberty: reconsidering our obsession with independence (and firing up the grill)

One of my favorite passages in The Lord of the Rings is when Aragorn asks...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

inequality and grief: why I pray

I can handle a trip to Mordor if I get to come home and plant...

June 06, 2016

confessing the sin of racism

Looking back, I am ashamed. Now I wish to mend whatever flaw in my soul...

June 03, 2016

scapegoating, nature, and narcissism: some thoughts on the cincinnati zoo incident

It is ironic that in our quest to overcome all boundaries, we have enclosed other...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

party loyalty is not important. it isn’t even a good idea

I've lived through sixeen years of two different Hitlers and, amazingly, lived to tell the...

May 14, 2016

what’s so comforting about a tongue of fire or descending dove?

I can't imagine that God really wants us keeling over and babbling. Communication and unity...

May 09, 2016

family values should not be a first-world privilege

What I found reading the story of the Mother's Day event, and perusing the comments,...

May 02, 2016

modesty, it turns out, is a thing – but not the thing they said it was

We often hear sermons or admonitions against scanty dress in women, but rarely do we...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

tearing the veil: a contemporary catholic practice and its complicated history

To return to our original topic: can we say that the contemporary practice of veiling...

April 25, 2016

catholic women, (un) veiled: new perspectives on an old practice

I still have no desire to veil myself, though I may occasionally sport a fedora,...

April 24, 2016

a prayer for michael voris

It is not possible to function in a whole and healthy manner if one is...

April 21, 2016

a reflection on the radical christian feminism of charlotte brontë, on the bicentennial of her birth

The term "feminist" was not invented yet, in Charlotte Brontë's day, but I will permit...

April 20, 2016

happy birthday to my dad…and to adolf hitler?

For this Jewish Catholic, this challenge to believe takes one down a very strange path,...

April 11, 2016

we need a theology of the body broken and violated

Because, as soon as I draw on the language that beautifies, I am pretending that...