By Lorraine Cuddeback Before I set out on my academic path to a Ph.D., I was training as a lay ecclesial minister in a M.Div. program. Part of this training meant I took three classes in […]
Category: Guest Post
Many Prophetic Voices, One Merciful God
By Michelle Marvin I have no memory of the details of my baptism, because it took place at infancy. Yet through the preservation and continuation of Catholic tradition, I know what was said during those […]
Some Thoughts on Grace: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Statement before Receiving the Death Penalty
By Katie Wrisley Shelby On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, before being officially sentenced to death, the surviving perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, gave his first public statement in a courtroom peopled by […]
The Grace of Forgiveness: Learning from Emanuel A.M.E. Church
By Anna Floerke Scheid It is repulsive to me to admit it, but Dylann Roof and I have something in common. The self-proclaimed “Last Rhodesian” and I have both been inspired by the history of […]
Three Takeaways from Laudato Si’
By Daniel Cosacchi With the promulgation of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home, there is a resounding addition to the corpus of Roman Catholic social teaching. Here, for the first […]
Mouse Traps, Tacos, Bad Plumbing . . . and the Trinity
By Dannis Matteson What do mouse traps, tacos, and bad plumbing have to do with the Trinity? For my husband and me, everything. But before I divulge, let me set the stage. The doctrine of […]
The Forces Between Us
By Lorraine V. Cuddeback The first time I fell in love, it was with Baltimore. I spent four years walking the streets of that city — being sure to know the “safe” places to go. […]
Grace in Finitude: Running the Boston Marathon with Karl Rahner
By Lucas Briola I have spent most of the past few months doing two things: trudging through hundreds of pages of Karl Rahner and trudging through hundreds of miles in the Boston winter. No, I […]
Holy Saturday: The Sparrow Still Falls
By John DeCostanza, Jr. “There’s an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the […]
How the March Might Continue
By John DeCostanza, Jr. On this date 50 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Alabama State House in Montgomery and addressed a crowd of 25,000 who had assembled […]
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