This past year I had the pleasure of teaching two sections of my university’s required introductory theology course, Foundations of Theology: Biblical and Historical, and I am slated to teach it again this fall as […]
Category: Kingdom of God
Scattered On The Hillside: Some Thoughts on Discipleship, Community, and Blogging
One of the most challenging aspects of moving away from Boston and beginning my new life in Montana was leaving my community behind. After ten years in that city, I had formed a tight friendship […]
The Responsibility of Being a Prophetic People: Holy Thursday, Martyrdom, and the Feast of Blessed Óscar Romero
On Holy Thursday, the Roman Catholic church celebrates both a Chrism Mass in the morning and the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Every March 24th since 1980, the church also remembers the martyrdom of […]
Confronted, Confronting, Comforted: Reflections for Holy Week’s “Ordinary Days”
Holy Week balances the drama and ordinariness of Jesus’s last days in almost equal measure. Holy Week’s high liturgies literally script us into Jesus’s last days. We waved palms for Jesus and demanded His crucifixion […]
This News Is Good: Advent and the Kingdom of God
The Third Sunday of Advent The good news preached by John the Baptist in today’s reading is a constant theme in Luke. In fact, the author uses the phrase twenty-five times. The news is good […]
M.I.A., Refugees, & the Church–“What’s up with that?”
After analyzing M.I.A’s latest song and music video, this blog entry raises questions about what it means to be church in the midst of the refugee crisis and argues that when refugees drown, we the Church drown too
Floodplain
Take a listen to Sara Groves’ newest album, Floodplain, which debuted this month, and you will hear lyrics weave a rich tapestry of spirituality and theology. I found that the album’s namesake, Floodplain, is a song […]
Night, Light, and Gift: A Reverie for Christ the King
The chapel was darker than I had expected. The monstrance stood on the altar, flanked by candles and spotlighted by two overhead lights. The rest of the room was a canvas depicting the shading of these […]
Jesus is Outside
He was scandalously conceived outside of a proper marriage, born outside of his society’s attention, and immediately a refugee outside his homeland as he fled brutal political power. He brought contempt and rejection upon himself […]
Ferguson and Staten Island: What I Have Done, and What I Failed to Do
I’ve been struggling, like many, in the past weeks and especially in the past 48 hours to think and respond to the failure of grand juries to indict either Officer Darren Wilson for the death […]
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