Faith in an Impatient Age: 26th Sun OT
In this week’s readings, there are some strange juxtapositions. In the first reading, those who...
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White Lies, 1619, and Anti-Racist Work Today [You Should Hear These Podcasts]
“We are reminded that in the South, there are no simple questions about the past.” -Chip Brantley I recently listened to a podcast about the murder of Rev. James Reeb in 1965 in Selma, Alabama. The podcast is called...
Read MoreYou Should Read This: Confession: Catholics, Repentance, & Forgiveness in America by Patrick W. Carey
Those Catholic moral theologians who know the history of their field will no doubt have heard of the manualist tradition. Manuals, the guides developed through the years for priests hearing confession, are often examined as...
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Thoughts on the Joys and Challenges of Introducing Theology
Over the summer, and now into the new semester, I have been giving increasing attention to the...
Read MoreThis is a good time to be alive.
By the end of the summer, I found myself thinking, frequently and with relief, at least I’m not likely to live to 2050. At least I’ve already lived most of my life. At least I won’t be here that much longer.
So when I was asked to offer a reflection for the start-of-year prayer service for faculty and staff, I realized that there was one thing I needed to say, for myself. This is a good time to be alive.
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Election is Not Enough – 21st Sun of OT
The doctrine of election – that is, the idea that God has chosen (elected) a particular people to...
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What is the “culture of death”? Demanding everyone stand on their own two feet.
Concerned to focus on the “culture of death” as we head into another tortured election season? Call out the cultural disorder, not the individual red flags that pit Catholics against one another. Society exists so that we can love one another as an aspect of our loving God– not so that we can avoid being a burden to each other.
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Vigilance – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
WIS 18:6-9 PS 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 HEB 11:1-2, 8-12 LK 12:32-48 The passages that come to us...
Read MoreA Brief History of New Wine, New Wineskins
The annual symposium of New Wine, New Wineskins has been formative for many Catholic moral theologians in the past 17 years; it has forged many friendships, (mostly) friendly arguments, and scholarly collaboration. In honor of...
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Can Catholics Have Worthwhile Disagreements Well? Two Case Studies
Both my undergraduate and graduate institutions prepared me, in different ways, to see that the...
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