It shouldn’t have surprised me to watch Donald Trump say that he openly supports forms of torture far worse than waterboarding, but it did. It is hard to write during an election season, politics being what they […]
Author: John P. Slattery
John holds a PhD in the History & Philosophy of Science and Systematic Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He works for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and lives in Washington, DC metro area.
Theology 101: Systematic Bias (and Flint, MI)
The horrible tragedy of water poisoning in Flint, Michigan, is the latest example of systematic bias in daily American life. Systematic bias, sometimes referred to as structural or systemic bias, is one of the more […]
Hope!
Christmas is a strange holiday and tradition within Christianity. Its immense popularity speaks to its power, of course, but why? Why has Christmas practically surpassed Easter in the eyes of contemporary Christian culture? How has a […]
Light, Art, and Life in St. Peter’s Square
I was going to wait on this post until I had faster internet upload speeds, so I could do all the videos, but given some mean comments about this that I’ve been reading, I figured […]
Going Out and Coming Back: The Second Sunday of Advent
The reading from the Book of Psalms often gets overlooked in Mass. As a former music minister, I struggled with the fact that there’s not a perfect melody for every psalm each Sunday, but there’s only so […]
On the Legitimate Dangers of Being a Good Samaritan
Ok, so I’m walking down the sidewalk and see a man beaten and lying down. He looks foreign. Not Canadian-foreign, maybe with a nice overcoat and glasses, but foreign-foreign, with dark skin, dirty clothes (obviously dirty before he got […]
Arguments for a Theology of Children #NationalAdoptionMonth
November is National Adoption Month. In officially declaring this month in a presidential address on October 28, Obama noted, “More than 400,000 children are in foster care across America today, and over 100,000 of these […]
The Veil Between Us
Editor’s Note: This post comes from our Blog Partner, Hope Sings So Beautiful. It was written by Chris Pramuk of Xavier University. I particularly appreciate this post for the way Pramuk questions the language of contemporary […]
Sexual Assault and Higher Education: An Octave of Theological Reflection. An Introduction.
It is a cruel and humbling fact of faith that religious sensibility does not curb the genetic predisposition of humanity to the allures of power, prestige, and violence. Faith is not a genetic condition. The […]
On Pain, God, and Humility: Hurricane Katrina, 10 years later
(Editor’s Note: This post is the first of a series of three reflections on the 10-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Be sure to check out the posts on Saturday and Sunday by Lorraine Cuddeback and John […]
