The Guardian yesterday had an article about dress codes in Iran. In the summer, it seems, women seek cooler clothing than their hijab permits, and men gravitate toward shorts. All of these are banned clothing, which has led Iran...
Read MoreExodus 34: 4b-6, 8-9 Daniel 3: 52-56 2 Corinthians 16:11-13 John 3: 16-18 Remember how at just about every major sporting event in the 1980’s there was always that crazy guy holding up a sign that read “John...
Read MoreOnce, in my graduate school days, I took Heidegger’s Being and Time on vacation. I was trying to squeeze in a bit of work during my free time. Needless to say, it was difficult to pay attention. Heidegger does not have a lot...
Read MoreOver at Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Kim Lawton interviews Notre Dame’s Gerard Powers who reassesses the US/NATO intervention underway in Libya. It’s a brief piece, but I think Powers raises the right concerns:...
Read MoreWhat is underlying the obsession with the national debt as THE economic problem? Over at Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, Charles Clark , Professor of Economics at St. John’s University examines the false...
Read MoreWell, you might not have expected this. In response to the Committee on Doctrine’s condemnation of Elizabeth Johnson’s book Quest for the Living God, the Catholic Theological Society of America released a...
Read MoreNigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, and author of the new book Behaving in Public: How to Do Christian Ethics (Eerdmans 2011), is unboxable. An Anglican who is...
Read MoreThere has been some time to digest the conference ‘Christian Ethics Engages Peter Singer’ at Oxford a couple of weeks ago. For anyone that wishes to watch some of the sessions, all of them are available on the...
Read More“A faith experience can’t only be about learning the ins and outs of the doctrine. It has to be a celebration.” So claims Bonnie Rodgers, the marketing and programming manager for CatholicTV, the Watertown,...
Read MoreToday is the final day of the 57th Annual Convention of the College Theology Society. Several of us contributors and a number of friends and colleagues have attended a number of excellent papers (of course, some were not so...
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