Daily Theology’s previous posts in celebration of Pentecost from Kevin Johnson and Kevin Ahern asked us to encounter the Spirit as a source of both humility and hope. Inherent in their reflections is the idea […]
Author: Amanda Osheim
Broken Vessels
Perhaps it’s not by chance that brokenness is on my mind—after all, we are drawing close to the season of Lent. Yet it is the topic of Theological Shark Week that prods me to think […]
Radical Thanksgiving
In Creative Ministry, Henri Nouwen writes “The most subtle desire for power, and the most difficult to overcome, is the desire for thanks. As long as people keep thanking us for what we have done […]
Theology: Serving the Conversation
Thirst Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do not have. I walk out to the pond and all the way God has given us such beautiful lessons. Oh Lord, I […]
An Evolving Metaphor
Reflection on the readings for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. In this Sunday’s first reading, the prophet Isaiah presents the story of his “friend,” in some translations his “beloved,” who planted a vineyard, prepared […]
The Call to Conversation
I’ve been looking back over the summer and thinking of two conversations that took place on a large scale. One was the Catholic Conversation Project, a gathering of (mostly) pre-tenure theologians to discuss our sense […]
Sacrifice of Praise
During one of our regular Sunday night phone calls, my mom reported her encounter at mass with a song she’d not before heard, “Sacrifice of Praise” by Michael Joncas. Beyond the loveliness of the song’s […]
Holy Orders
Last week I returned to Iowa after having life turned upside down by ten days of travel in northern California. The chance to visit dear friends, meet new folks, and soak up beautiful scenery was […]
