Sunday, September 11, 2011 – Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir 27:30 – 28:7; Ps 103:1-2,3-4,9-10,11-12; Rom 14:7-9; Mt 18: 21-35 “Can anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the LORD?” (Sir...
Read MoreOver at my other blogging “home” at the journal Political Theology’s There Is Power in the Blog, I posted the following brief reflection as the first contribution to a series this week on Ten Years after 9/11:...
Read MoreTwo institutions that have been in the hot seat since the start of the recession are health care and education. Both have out-of-control costs, with comparatively very little to show for those costs, making them targets of...
Read MoreLast week, in my post American Scandal & Disgrace: the Criminalization of Poverty, I highlighted the ways our social structures treat poverty itself as a crime. Within our public discourse and our unspoken social mores,...
Read More“To Choose Is To Lose,” so say the authors of a new study on decision-making that is the subject of a recent story in The New York Times Magazine. The researchers found that when people had to make a lot of choices, they...
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