In January I traveled to Italy with 29 undergraduates and another faculty member for a course examining the church’s “communication for communion” in the Renaissance and modern/postmodern periods. Standing near Rome’s Colosseum is the Arch […]
Author: Amanda Osheim
Raising Hell*
Editors’ note: This post was originally part of Theological Shark Week V: Holy Hell?! Daily Theology Explores the Afterlife in October 2013. As a child, I was fascinated by one part of the Apostles’ Creed: […]
It’s no joke: “Sometimes plates can fly”
As with many others, I’ve been quite caught up in the papal mania of Francis’ visit to the United States, and have found much that is inspiring about both his actions and words. Yet I […]
Vulnerable Mercy: Sharing the Mind of Christ
At times I’ve wondered what it would have been like to be on the receiving end of one of Paul’s epistles. I imagine a variety of responses: the flurry of excitement and anticipation over what […]
The Transfiguration: Eyes to See and Ears to Hear
Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear? Mark 8:18 On this Feast of the Transfiguration, the readings are attention-grabbing: they aim to capture our internal sight by tapping into our external […]
Creation: A Merciful Conspiracy
The Book of Genesis opens with the story of creation told in two different ways. The first, Genesis 1 – 2: 3, tends to be better known, and it quickly works into a nice pattern: […]
Becoming a Better Friend to Job
In this Sunday’s first reading we walk in on the third act of a much longer play. Act One was set in the heavenly court where God is speaking with the satan, literally “the accuser,” […]
Praise and Lament: That We May Protect Life and Beauty
I knew what this day would be about: the encyclical. This day that really started earlier this week with a leak. This day that truly began with a couple years of rumors of a document […]
Holy Sense of the Faithful, Theologians!
My first graduate course in theology sucker-punched me. The subject was ecclesiology, and studying the church while thinking for the first time about the Holy Spirit’s work blew me away. One idea in particular caught my attention: the […]
Easter Sunday: Resurrected Reality
At Easter, and in every Eucharist, we celebrate the fullness of the paschal mystery: Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection. The resurrection does not erase the suffering and death of Christ, nor does it remove our […]
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