“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 […]
Author: Amanda Osheim
Models of Catholic Higher Education
My thanks to Katherine Greiner for the landscape of Catholic higher education painted by her introductory post. For me, it was a reminder that questions of Catholic identity are as perennial as those of Christian discipleship. […]
Now God Knows Us
On the last Saturday of Advent I was first in line for confessions at a local parish, which offers the sacrament between its afternoon and evening masses. Others filled in beside me, and the pastor […]
Fear or Faith?
At my first communion, I received a picture Bible. All the stories were told through comic strips, like the Bible version of Rex Morgan, M.D. Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael, Isaac, Leah, Rachel, Jacob, Moses, Gideon, […]
Matthew, Mark, Luke, & Kid Rock: A Primer on Gospel Sources
Welcome to Vacation Bible School: Gospel Edition! VBS at Daily Theology runs from July 1 – August 1. We’ll be posting twice a week about the gospels in theology, the liturgy, the classroom, and at home. […]
Hispanic Ministry and Parish Life
This semester I’ve had the pleasure of working with ten undergraduate students in a course called “Foundations for Ministry,” which is geared toward exploration of lay ministry in the Catholic church today. The sources we’ve […]
Serving Imagination on Holy Thursday
In The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene tells the story of the “whisky priest,” a minister whose brokenness is evident to many of the other characters, and perhaps most especially to himself. A revolution […]
Ordination Reform and the Episcopal Virtue of Courage
As John Slattery notes, Bishop Erwin Kräutler’s account of his conversation with Pope Francis, in which the two bishops in part discussed the potential for ordaining married men to the priesthood, is making the rounds. […]
A Lenten Resurrection
In an interesting juxtaposition of the liturgical and television seasons, the First Sunday of Lent saw the premiere of ABC’s much-promoted Resurrection. The show is raveling a thread about what happens when deceased loved ones […]
All I Want for Christmas is an Advent Playlist
Katherine Greiner’s post on the practices of waiting during Advent struck a chord with me—and opened up the question of which chords to strike.* While I’m not such a liturgical purist as to find Christmas […]
Daily Theology 
You must be logged in to post a comment.