Remember Trayvon Martin, 17, unarmed, who died 3 years ago today at the hands of a neighborhood watch captain with a gun. Remember Tamir Rice, 12, unarmed, holding a toy pellet gun, who died last November […]
Month: February 2015
Angels and Beasts in the Arena’s Dark Night
Sunday’s Gospel: “The Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness, where he stayed for forty days. There he was put to the test by Satan. He was with the wild beasts, yet angels ministered to him.” […]
Relating Sacramentally in Online Teaching
By Daniella Zsupan-Jerome, Ph.D. Stephen Okey’s recent reflection on “Catholic Identity and Online Education” is a timely conversation starter, and I appreciate his framework of focusing especially on five key areas of concern around Catholic […]
Catholic Fitness Problems
In this penitential season of Lent, we Catholics are on a spiritual journey to develop habits of prayer and to abstain from excess as we work with God to be made anew in Christ’s image. […]
Islam’s Beautiful Witness to America: Malcolm X
This Saturday marked fifty years since El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, was gunned down in Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom. A few celebrations took place to remember his legacy, but the day garnered little […]
Lent is About Baptism
“Lent is about baptism.” This phrase was the thread running through the homilies of my parish priest several years ago, and today’s readings highlight it again for me. Water is a tricky element. From Genesis […]
Seeds of Life and Love: The Contested Identity of Catholic Universities
Chris Pramuk, Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University and editor of our partner blog, Raids Across the Color Line, has published a response to DT’s recent Shark Week, specifically to Kevin Ahern’s post from Thursday. We’ve […]
Catholic Identity and Online Education
What is it that makes an education Catholic? Can one get a Catholic education online? Would a degree from an online program be any more or less Catholic than one from a “traditional” college or […]
The Catholic Campus and the Gospel of the Marginalized
The biggest challenge facing Catholic higher education today is not how many core theology classes we have, though this is clearly important…Rather, the critical challenge to Catholic institutional identity today concerns how we embody what Francis describes as the “gospel of the marginalized.”
The Details of Our Devotion
There are few writers that have impacted my view of the world, and the way I see myself in it, as profoundly as Mary Oliver has. I have added her poems to my personal collection […]
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