Lectionary #30 Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12 Luke 13:1-9 Repent! It is a word that is out of fashion. It is a command that conjures images of a crazy person wearing a sandwich board sign that reads “The End is Near!” It is a word that many of us do not take seriously or apply to ourselves with any Read more
As the Papal Conclave grows closer, the media coverage of clergy sexual abuse (in part spurred by recent events) has grown louder. This is as it should be. The anger and pain caused by the actions (and omissions) of those in whom the faithful place implicit trust cannot and should not be anywhere other than the front of the minds of the Read more
One of my first blog posts was about the death of Osama Bin Laden. In Relief or Rejoice? Reflections on the Death of Osama Bin Laden, in which I concluded As Christians, it is appropriate to feel a strong sense of relief but not rejoice in the events of last night. Aside from rampant invocation of Bin Laden’s death as “trump card,” for Read more
Last week, I participated in a couple of online discussions on why people attend church. Most church goers suggested that it was about “being renewed” and “getting filled up again” for the week. These aren’t wrong answers about worship or church, but I find myself wondering if going to church “to be filled” is a strong enough answer, especially in an age Read more
Last night I had the pleasure of attending an event at Columbia’s Heyman Center for the Humanities on Global Inequality with an all star cast: Joseph Stiglitz (nobel laureate and Columbia Professor), James K. Gailbraith (Professor at the LBJ School of Government, University of Texas) and Branko Milanovic (Lead Economist, Research Department, World Bank). While most of the economic discipline is only recently beginning Read more
In some ways, the story which prompted this post is nothing new. We have been helping sick children to die (even if one does not think of the fetus as a child) in the developed West for some time. The Groningen Protocol, which has been around for the better part of a decade, outlines with great specificity the circumstances in which the Read more
Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is 50 and there is a lot of talk about whether we still need to read it. In the book, Janet Maslin of the New York Times writes, Friedan named “the problem with no name,” the “depression, frustration, emptiness, guilt and dishonesty” experienced by mostly white, suburban, highly educated housewives. Like Friedan herself, many women Read more
Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:-4:1 Luke 9:28b-36 … contemplation is very far from being just one kind of thing that Christians do: it is the key to prayer, liturgy, art and ethics, the key to the essence of a renewed humanity that is capable of seeing the world and other subjects in the world with freedom – freedom from self-oriented, Read more
As I was on the NYTimes reading about the new data on Plan B (in brief, use is way up), I came across this comment: Curly: The President should make the IUD free to females. The President should mandate that all girls who reach puberty should be given an IUD (no cost to them) who are receiving an unearned entitlement. This requirement Read more
Can I copyright creation? The United States Supreme Court effectively decided in 1980 that you can in fact copyright creation. In Diamond v. Chakrabarty, the court decided live organisms all count as private property to be copyrighted and patented. The supreme court decided that genetically modified organisms could be patented, but it also went beyond that to allow for patenting of life Read more
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
