Yesterday, The Washington Post ran an article titled “Trump vows mass immigration arrests, removals of ‘millions of illegal aliens’ starting next week”. The article references a Monday night tweet from President Trump that reads, “Next […]
Author: Krista Stevens
OUR Teaching Moment: What We Can Learn from the March for Life Incident
If you’ve been on social media at all the past few days, you’ve likely seen the disturbing story of a group of teenage boys from Covington Catholic High School taunting/mocking/chanting at a Native American elder. […]
The Catonsville 9 and Hard Thoughts on Peace
Thomas Merton wrote: “Presumably everyone in the country wants peace in one way or other. But most Americans have prior commitments — or attachments — to other things which make peace impossible. Most people would rather […]
The End of Racism? (Not Really).
In the wake of Barack Obama’s 2008 historic election as the first black president of the United States of America, pundits, reporters, politicians, and scholars scrambled to declare the race question over. In its congratulatory […]
Why We Need the Arts
Over the last 24 hours, my Facebook feed has been blowing up with various articles about recently inaugurated Donald Trump’s plans to defund the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the […]
St. Francis Xavier – Living the Good News of Christ in the Twenty-First Century
Today is the feast day of St. Francis Xavier, SJ, a Jesuit priest often identified by the Catholic Church as one of the greatest missionaries since the Apostle Paul. Xavier, born into a well-to-do family […]
Fifteen Years Later
Everyone of a certain age has a memory, a story, a narrative, a “where were you?” of that life-changing, history-altering day. Here is mine, offered with humility. It was a beautiful, blue-skied, unusually cool early […]
The Challenge of the Prophets
Welcome to the first installation of this year’s Vacation Bible School! Over the next several weeks, Daily Theology will be bringing you all things bible. Make sure to check back regularly for a variety of […]
Owning Discomfort: Teaching Racial Justice in the Classroom
In their introduction to a week of reflection dedicated to “The University as Social Force,” the Daily Theology editors offered a quote given by the Jesuit priest Igancio Ellacuría at the University of Santa Clara […]
Living as Mercy in Anticipation of Christ’s Return
A professor once defined mercy as “the willingness to enter into the chaos of another.”[1] This definition struck me as rather profound as my basic understanding of mercy had focused on concepts like kindness and […]
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