In January I traveled to Italy with 29 undergraduates and another faculty member for a course examining the church’s “communication for communion” in the Renaissance and modern/postmodern periods. Standing near Rome’s Colosseum is the Arch […]
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Aquinas Nerds Rejoice! (or, Happy Feast Day Thomas!)
Just a quick reflection on this happy day for all Thomas Aquinas nerds. If you’re a fanboy/girl of the wonderful Aquinas and his Thomist legacy, but especially if you’re not, I want to recommend two […]
Nonviolence Is Not White Bourgeois Propriety
As a white guy wading into the thicket of commentary related to Ferguson, I need to say one thing up front: The economic, political, and social structures of white supremacy that both overtly and covertly […]
St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr – Poland, Politics, and Preaching the Gospel Today
I grew up a Roman Catholic in Buffalo, New York with a healthy portion of Polish ancestry. From an early age I recognized that some particularly strange sounding names were inextricably tied to the pride and […]
Finding the Face of God in Auschwitz: International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2014
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked to note when the largest of the concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated in 1945. There is so much one could say, and so many others who could say […]
MLK Day: Our Discordant National Holiday
By Eric Martin Warning: this post includes a graphic image of torture tactics. Today America claims to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but this nation does not know what that means. King’s dream is […]
The Grammar of Giving Thanks
Last week I hosted a study break for students in my residence hall and screened “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.” This was the first time many of them had ever seen this holiday classic, and their […]
What does it mean to honor the troops? Theological considerations when war is assumed.
It is with difficulty that I confront Veteran’s Day each year. Mostly, I enter the day conflicted, being a “veteran” myself. I am troubled by the simple yet difficult question that Katie Grimes summarized well earlier […]
Fear. A Theological Look at Lynching, Racism, and Modern Society.
Disclaimer: Please note, this post contains graphic discussions of slavery and lynching, including a graphic image of the latter. In a destitute area of the South Bronx in 1995, Jonathan Kozol was interviewing schoolchildren concerning […]
The Discerning Pope
Francis’ recent interview is replete with language of discernment, which is not so surprising from a Jesuit pope. Often discernment is described as a strategy for decision making, and indeed discernment is at the service […]
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