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January 2021

January 19, 2021

Words for Those Feeling Disinherited

Trump’s anti-other rhetoric has had the effect of making hatred acceptable. He has created convenient...

January 17, 2021

Yes, It’s About the White Supremacy

In this case, the first and maybe most lasting images we got cast the “rioters”...

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...

November 2020

November 09, 2020

Voting Out Fascism Is Just the Beginning

There can be no compromise with an ideology that places the demands of the few...

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 28, 2020

Does Voting “Pro-Life” Actually Save Lives?

If human life is the thing that you value most, you have to do more...

October 22, 2020

Should We Be Gatekeeping Feminism?

Of course, maybe you are white enough, privileged enough, rich enough, so that Trump's policies...

October 15, 2020

Reality and Unreality: The Questioning of Amy Coney Barrett

We are now all living in the world of Donald Trump. And that world is...

October 06, 2020

“There are *Four* Lights”: Trump and the Gaslighting of America

Trump’s “five-light” propaganda machine broadcasts its message 24–7. Pick any topic, e.g., COVID-19, climate change,...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

What Do You Mean When You Say a Politician is “Pro Life”? A Historical Comparison

Every presidential election year, the same debate returns to Catholic circles: may a...

August 08, 2020

Toxic Masculinity: What It Is, and What It isn’t

What we are objecting to is not men. We are objecting to immorality. And for...

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...

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...

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...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Right Wing Leaders Propose Human Sacrifice To Prop Up the One Percent

What people like Dan Patrick and R.R. Reno are proposing is literally human sacrifice. That...

February 2020

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...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Trump’s Attendance At the March For Life Is Significant – But Not In the Way His Supporters Claim

With Trump as their figurehead, the pro-life movement now looks, to anyone outside his cult...

January 17, 2020

We Need To Talk About Sexism In Politics

It is impossible for any woman to take the lead in this society without being...

January 12, 2020

Those Who Shamed Us For Immorality Are Now Its Biggest Defenders: The Gaslighting Cycle of the Christian Trump Supporter

The hypocrisy of those who claim to defend decency while standing up for everything that...

January 10, 2020

Reducing Abortion Rates and Protecting Women’s Rights Are Goals That Can and Should Co-Exist

The important thing is, we do agree that a right to life is real, and...

January 07, 2020

It is Time For Us To Decide: What is Christianity Going to Mean?

Is Christianity a religion of empire and nationalism, of “might makes right,” of walls and...

April 2019

April 27, 2019

David Bentley Hart on Socialism: “Sane and Compassionate Governance”

The policies advanced by leaders such as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while...

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 31, 2019

Contrapasso in the Heartlands: When We Reject The Common Good

Dante’s image may seem over-the-top, but when I look at the ferocity with which my...

March 23, 2019

Good Local and Bad Local: An Eco Grower’s Perspective

This was when I began to see the phenomenon of “bad local.” The kind of...