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March 2021

March 12, 2021

Immigrants: They Need Us, and We Need Them

They come because most often they and their families are extremely poor, and they cannot...

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...

January 2021

January 14, 2021

Reflections on the Epiphany Insurrection

It is also painfully obvious that the police took much longer to restore order than...

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 22, 2020

Make a Difference: Proclaim “Good News of Great Joy”

By guest writer Tony Magliano The commercialism of Christmas can easily tempt us to...

December 09, 2020

In Advent, We Practice Holy Patience – and a Holy Impatience for Justice

During Advent, it is deeply important for us as committed disciples of our Lord to...

December 02, 2020

The Jewish People, History, and Mystery

Hope has been proven a lie I have told myself. The history of the people...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

Being Thankful When You Do Not Understand

It is completely fine to not to be completely thankful; thankfulness is a divine thing...

November 02, 2020

Yes, There Is a Place in the Democratic Party for Pro-Life Voters

Faced with the alternative of an administration that has proven itself willing to flout fundamental...

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 26, 2020

White Privilege and Hypocrisy on Display in Catholic Opposition to Racial Justice Activists

And what is happening now has happened before. It has happened here. But since it...

September 17, 2020

No, Flannery O’Connor Has Not Been Canceled

I think many of O’Connor’s fans can handle the vision of redemption that she presents...

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...

July 2020

July 26, 2020

The Value and Necessity of Inter-Religious Dialogue

Religious communities, whatever else they are about, are about love, hope and faith. They are...

July 18, 2020

It Is Clear By Now that We Are Not All In This Together

The world watches in horror as our numbers go up. And the world closes its...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

History May Not Repeat, But It Rhymes: Trump’s Tulsa Rally

Eventually, Trump’s search for scapegoats (“really bad people”) will backfire. Yet the damage he has already...

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 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...