Jason King

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Love is the Bread of Life

Posted by Jason King | Aug 8, 2018 | Current Events, Lectionary |

Reading 1: 1 Kings 19:4-8 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 34 Reading 2: Ephesians 4:30-5:2 Gospel: John 6:41-51 As Christians, we are to “be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us.” When you live in a country where the president regularly insults individual citizens however, it is easy to forget this. Paul’s call to get rid of our “bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling . . . along with all malice” and be “kind to one another, compassionate” sounds naïve, like a call to give in to the bullies of public discourse. Yet, this Sunday’s readings...

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Greater and Deeper Reality is God’s Love

Posted by Jason King | Jul 11, 2018 | Current Events, Lectionary |

Reading 1:Amos 7: 12-15 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 85 Reading 2: Ephesians 1:3-14 Gospel: Mark 6: 7-13 Every morning, I wake up, pour myself some coffee, and read the news. Lately, this has proven to be a descent into despair. The international community, the economy, our public discourse, everything seems to be breaking down. It’s even bad locally. This morning I read about how a man attempted to burn a gay pride flag. What was shocking about it was that it did not seem to be any planned endeavor but rather just casual violence, something to do when one is bored...

Reflections of a Professional Adjunct

Posted by Jason King | Jul 11, 2018 | Current Events |

At this year’s College Theology Society annual meeting, Steve Werner (on the far right of the picture) was part of a plenary session reflecting on contingent faculty in Catholic higher education. What follows is a portion of his talk. I am an adjunct in the Midwest. Since I began teaching college in 1990, I have taught the equivalent of 527 3-credit classes. I have taught at seven different universities/colleges in fourteen different programs. My record is thirteen courses in one semester, although I could not do that now. The biggest problem I face is that things are constantly changing, and...

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: God’s Way

Posted by Jason King | Jun 6, 2018 | Current Events, Lectionary |

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1:Genesis 3:9-15 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 130:1-8 Reading 2: 2 Corinthians 4:13—5:1 Gospel: Mark 3:20-35 In the first reading, God asks a peculiar question, “Where are you?” Not only is God omniscient, but he is looking for the only two people that exist in one tiny garden. Even though they were hiding, my guess is God could still have found them. After Adam unintentionally admits that they have eaten of the tree of good and evil, God then asks why they would do such a thing. This questioning and perplexed God is not seeking...

Coal and the Pearl of Great Price

Posted by Jason King | May 18, 2018 | Current Events |

Everything about Paul Krugman recent interview with ThinkProgress is true, and everything about it is false. In it, Krugman tells the true story that the decline in coal jobs is the result of the rise of technology. Technology makes the work of individuals more productive, meaning you need fewer workers. Add on to this that we no long dig in mines but rather blow off the top of mountains and scoop out the coal, and we need even fewer people. Thus, Trump’s promise to bring back “coal” is impossible. However, everything about Krugman’s story is also false. Coal, for...

Author: Jason King

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Love is the Bread of Life

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Greater and Deeper Reality is God’s Love

Reflections of a Professional Adjunct

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: God’s Way

Coal and the Pearl of Great Price

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