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September 2020

September 07, 2020

A Beautiful Memoir of Waging Peace

Is a history of the Catholic Worker movement even possible, given the innately anarchic nature...

May 2020

May 04, 2020

Shalom versus Pax: On Recovering Ivan Illich

Faith Seeking Conviviality, a new book from Samuel Ewell, a U.K.-based social entrepreneur, is grounded...

February 2020

February 17, 2020

Arizmendi’s Big House: Mondragón and the Culture of Cooperation

“It’s like a big house. A big house that belongs to everybody.” (Comment by a...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

When Dorothy Day Met Hannah Arendt

At the May 21, 1972 commencement exercises at the University of Notre Dame, Dorothy Day...

October 2019

October 03, 2019

Sacrifice and Reconciliation in Africa

In 2008, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, a Ugandan priest born in 1960 of Rwandan parents (one...

June 2018

June 08, 2018

Love and Citizenship

We ... view our work first as a religious obligation, but also as a practical...

April 2018

April 05, 2018

The Mindless Menace of Violence

Fifty years ago today, on the morning after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Babylon’s Falling: Recovering an Exilic Christian Consciousness

Babylon is indeed falling. But then, Babylon is always falling, which is to say that...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Jesus the Imagination

Art, says Michael Martin, has the potential to create a new Gospel every day. "Not...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Francis meets TED, Talks About ‘Solidarity’

How wonderful it would be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were...

December 2016

December 23, 2016

Roasting Marshmallows at the Apocalypse

[A review of Nothing to Vote For: The Futility of the American Electoral Process, by Daniel...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Lights Coming Back on in Gary

I knew my involvement in civic matters in northwest Indiana would eventually take me to...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

What I Saw on the Porch

In temporary relief from the ongoing telenovella of our impending national election, we habitues of the Front...

July 2016

July 04, 2016

Turning America Around

In 1976, the evangelical church of my youth celebrated the bicentennial of American independence. Since my dad...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

A Saint for a New Socioeconomic Order

Saints, G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are an antidote to whatever the age neglects. Such...

May 27, 2016

Junger’s Hunger, And Ours

A couple of years ago, I took some members of a large Rwandan refugee family to a...

May 24, 2016

Preparing for President Trump

What I’m about write is not an exercise in partisan advocacy. I belong to neither...

May 18, 2016

Book Review: “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People”

I write today for the purpose of recommending “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants...

April 2016

April 01, 2016

Can We Just Grow Jobs?

Those of you who know me know I have a few hobby horses I come...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Boxed In

A few years ago, my wife and I were assigned a case through our local...

March 21, 2016

What is the Opposite of a Happy Death?

In a neighboring town I have a wonderful friend Nate who serves as pastor of...

March 16, 2016

The Next Church and How to Get There

Being a Patheos blogger, you understand, is a pretty cush deal. For example, the folks...

March 08, 2016

Life, Death, and Community in Lockeland Springs

On January 25, my 52 year-old brother Paul was stricken by cardiogenic shock, a life-threatening...

March 04, 2016

Not Just Another Option

By Josh Brumfield I confess I like the Benedict Option. I am attracted to the...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

The Bright Side of Dark Times

Politics in America seems to be going off the rails. Therefore, I thought it wise...

February 19, 2016

The Useless People

The useless people in our society are not the poor or the unemployed. Most economic theories and...

February 18, 2016

Now that’s more like it…

All over the United States, poverty and homelessness have been and are being criminalized (as...

February 17, 2016

Gar Alperovitz on the Next System (Interview)

Gar Alperovitz, a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, is a chaired...

February 15, 2016

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!

This started out as a post on the joy of receiving seed catalogues in deep...

February 09, 2016

Ivan Illich Never Fails Me

Ivan Illich is a writer I frequently return to, not only for information and argument,...