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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...

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...

December 2020

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 02, 2020

The Jewish People, History, and Mystery

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

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 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...

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? ...

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 11, 2020

How We Speak About Death

For Christians who believe in the resurrection of the body it seems evasive to talk...

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...

December 2019

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...

November 2018

November 17, 2018

“Tradition” – You Keep Using That Word…

While the conservative imagination claims to love and uphold the past, typically it twists history...

November 04, 2018

Cruelty, Sentimentality, and Authoritarian Regimes

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

October 2018

October 13, 2018

Knock, Knock – Who’s There? More Than Half the Church!

When I was teaching Women Writers, my signature course for many years, I used to...

October 11, 2018

Two Catholic Churches – I’m Staying With One

by guest contributor H. Lillian Vogl I’ve been noticing lately that there are two deeply...

September 2018

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...

September 10, 2018

Abuse, Clericalism, and the Culture Of Obedience

Obedience to God is one thing. But how do we know when it’s God? Why...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

Am I My Church’s Keeper? A Laywoman Ponders Her Responsibility

Above all, though, I feel that I have spent my life as a Catholic with...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

When Priests Display Misogyny, They Subvert the Persona Christi

The real heart of the problem with this anti-woman approach is not just tacky style,...

May 2017

May 08, 2017

the power of negative thinking

Convenient amnesia about one’s own past failures: drop-outs, firings, unplanned pregnancies, delinquencies? Never happened. Mind...

April 2017

April 15, 2017

Mary Magdalene – Preacher or Prostitute?

Both the prostitute legend and the wife theory reduce Mary to her sexuality. And so,...

April 13, 2017

this is not the God of vengeance

His disciples must really not have been paying attention to half his teachings, if they...

February 2017

February 21, 2017

how should a christian respond to milo?

Our image of the loser guy in his mom's basement drooling over porn and proliferating...

February 14, 2017

the feast of st valentine for the morbid and melancholy

For those of us who can't stand pink fluffy stuff, being more inclined towards the...