Today, August 6th, is an unusually rich day for biblical reflection and the prayerful space it can lead us into. In many Christian denominations, today is the day to celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration. […]
Catholicism’s White Supremacy Problem Has Infected Sojourners
About two weeks ago, scholar and activist Eric Martin published a piece on Sojourners about the very real problem of white supremacy in the American Catholic Church, entitled “The Catholic Church has a Visible White-Power […]
Donald Trump’s Jesuit Education
When I was an undergraduate at Boston College, the Campus Ministry office sold “Educated by Jesuit” T-shirts to help fundraise for retreats and service trips. On the front of the shirt is the emblem of the […]
Christology in the Age of Trump
During my first year of teaching at a high school, I was handed the preexisting curriculum for the sophomore class. I vividly remember sitting at my desk starring at the large multi-colored teacher’s manual with […]
A Catholic Case for Reparations
Every Roman Catholic in the United States should be unreservedly in favor of reparations to descendents of the Black men and women who were kidnapped from Africa and held in bondage for centuries. The Catholic […]
Preaching Your First Sermon on Racism: A Guide for White Pastors
In all my years of going to church, the only times I have ever heard a sermon about racism was when the priest was black. I have never heard a white pastor give a sermon […]
Five Things I Learned from the Jesuits
July 31st is the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus (the “Jesuits”). The Jesuits are a religious order, officially founded in 1540 and currently numbering over 18,000 […]
Feast of St. Martha: Transforming Our Personal and Collective Narratives
July 29, the Feast of St. Martha, gives us a day to reflect upon Luke’s familiar story of Jesus’ visit with Mary and Martha. Whenever this reading comes around, I fear the resulting homily. Another […]
The Imitation of Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles
On July 22, Christians in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches celebrated the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. One of my favorite anecdotes about St. John XXIII happens to be a joke told by him […]
I Have Seen the Lord
Before I set out on my academic path to a Ph.D., I was training as a lay ecclesial minister in a M.Div. program. Part of this training meant I took three classes in preaching, where […]
The Middle Class, the Poorest of the Poor, & Solidarity in the Philippines’ Covid Crisis
By Stephanie Ann Puen Being from the Philippines, a colleague and I discussed the current debate and discourse on the “middle class versus the poor” happening in our country. An open letter from a “middle […]
