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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 16, 2020

Why Are We Flying “Treason’s Flaunting Rag”? A Military Historian Considers

The legacy of the slaver's rebellion is one that haunts our nation to this day....

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 15, 2020

What Are We Willing To Sacrifice, To Get Through the Pandemic?

Will we be willing to sacrifice some of the pleasures of our precious “American” way...

April 2020

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 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 06, 2020

In Case You Were Wondering, We Still Need Feminism

The women who are mourning the fact that Warren dropped out of the race -...

February 2020

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 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 01, 2020

Yes, This Is Who We Are: The United States and Our History of Injustice

This is who we are. We came to this continent, stole it from those who...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

A Year-End Retrospective: Looking Back on Failure

It is our work, heavy work, tiring work, work where we often miss our turning...

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 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 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...

October 2019

October 27, 2019

Church As Empire? This Is Not the Catholicism I Signed Up For

But what I am seeing right now is a movement in Catholicism to make it...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

On Judging The Level of a Civilization on How It Treats Women

We speak often of “rape culture” and assume this refers to frat houses, to football...

June 2019

June 18, 2019

Got a Problem With Student Loan Forgiveness? You’re Opposing a Venerable Catholic Tradition

Catholics who wish to take a stand against Senator Warren’s plan are free to do...

April 2019

April 11, 2019

Capital Punishment For Abortion Is Not Pro-Life

While the legislation is unlikely to pass, given extensive resistance - including from some pro-life...

April 07, 2019

When Those Who Loved You Into the Church Are Hating You Out of It

Here’s a piece of advice as I remove all of you from my life -...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

On Just Wages, Church Teaching, and the Plight of the University Adjunct

any school that defrauds its workers of their just wages, does not count as authentically...

March 25, 2019

It’s Not About Muslim or Christian. It’s About Extremism

We need to get over thinking in terms of religious wars and conquest, get over...

February 2019

February 22, 2019

On False Accusations and Hate Crimes: What We Need to Learn from the Jussie Smollett Case

And for most of our history, false accusations have broadly been made by white people,...

February 21, 2019

When Men Say “Understanding Consent Is Hard”

It doesn’t require a special class. One need not pay for and download a program....

January 2019

January 05, 2019

Why Do People Keep Saying “Both Sides Are The Same”?

There are many times when staying silent, keeping a middle ground, gives tacit support to...