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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“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to...
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Four years ago today, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ was published. Its message is as urgent...
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I try and hope to avoid hearing the word “urgent” in my daily life. After all, I...
Read MoreLent is here again! Most of us are a full week into our self-selected Lenten resolution(s) and are finding out just how easy or difficult they are for us to manage. And, like every year, people have chimed in with their...
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Isaiah 53:10-11 Psalm 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 Hebrews 4:14-16 Mark 10:35-45 One of the common...
Read MoreConcerned about a future of “rubble, deserts, and refuse”? Then do your work to make change in political and economic and cultural structures in the world, and when you eat, say grace in a way that is tender, sober, full of the wonder of God’s goodness, and truthful about where the food we are eating comes from.
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As people gather in the nation’s capital to march in support of life this week, I encourage all who read this to consider participating in a vigil—even if it is only a few moments at your kitchen tap—to pray for what may become one of the world’s most important “life issues” in years to come: the availability of clean water.
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Frankly, we don’t need any new reasons to resist factory farms. Perhaps it is the 50...
Read MoreConcern for the environment is often portrayed as a “luxury” issue, a bourgeois issue, compared to concern for the poor. Economists often suggest that care for the environment and “reducing pollution” is a luxury that becomes...
Read MoreWhile the Catholic world I live in has been counting down to “sede vacante,” the DC area world I live in has clearly been transfixed by another countdown: to sequester! In case you haven’t heard, and it seems that many Americans...
Read MoreThe following is a guest post by Jacaranda Turvey of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Chester University, United Kingdom. She is writing a thesis on the following topic (supervised by David Clough) and can be...
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