Fourth Sunday of Advent: Light One Candle of Courage
MI 5:1-4A PS 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19. HEB 10:5-10 LK 1:39-45 I know that on today, this fourth Sunday...
Read Moreby Jana Bennett | Dec 20, 2018 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0
MI 5:1-4A PS 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19. HEB 10:5-10 LK 1:39-45 I know that on today, this fourth Sunday...
Read Moreby Kelly Johnson | Dec 13, 2018 | Current Events | 2
It’s exam week and holidays are coming, so let’s play a game. We have a free copy of Bill Mattison’s Introducing Moral Theology for the reader who can give the best short account of what’s wrong with Andrew Sullivan’s “America’s New Religions.” I’ll summarize the argument and kick us off with some attempt to highlight a few of the major mistakes, and then I challenge readers to do better. A week from today, I’ll select a lucky winner of a free book.
Read Moreby Dana Dillon | Dec 11, 2018 | Current Events | 0
I used to think of myself as something of an Advent purist. We had to celebrate Advent as a time...
Read Moreby Patrick Clark | Dec 5, 2018 | Lectionary | 0
Lectionary: 6 Baruch 5:1-9 Psalm 126:1-6 Philippians 1:4-6,8-11 Luke 3:1-6 Every Christmas my...
Read Moreby David Cloutier | Dec 3, 2018 | Current Events | 0
Americans, perhaps inevitably, invest the figures who occupy the presidency with a symbolic or...
Read Moreby David Cloutier | Nov 29, 2018 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0
Readings: Jer 33:14-16; Ps 25; 1 Thess 3:12-4:2; Lk 21: 25-28, 34-36 The first Sunday of Advent...
Read Moreby Conor Kelly | Nov 26, 2018 | Current Events | 0
There is a general sense of agreement, or at least a culturally enshrined assumption, that the...
Read Moreby Luis Vera | Nov 22, 2018 | Current Events, Lectionary | 0
Readings: Daniel 7:13-14; Psalm 93:1-2, 5; Revelation 1:5-8; John 18:33b-37 The “ruler...
Read Moreby Maria Morrow | Nov 18, 2018 | Current Events | 0
This week we celebrate that great American holiday of Thanksgiving. Perhaps the details of the day – family, food, football – have come to obscure the name and meaning behind Thanksgiving. While not a Catholic...
Read Moreby Beth Haile | Nov 13, 2018 | Current Events | 4
I have a brain tumor. Actually two. I was diagnosed last year five days before Christmas. My youngest son was not yet a month old. And my tumors are terminal. Unless something else kills me, my tumors will. I don’t know when. It...
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