by MT Dávila “So you say you love the poor? Name them.” –Gustavo Gutiérrez Recently during a panel on the November 2016 presidential election, someone asked what form Christian activism and organizing should take in order […]
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The Children in the Fiery Furnace: Organizing for Racial Justice & the Legacy of Diane Nash
By Marjorie Corbman In response to a group of clergy that had chastised him for his “extremist” tactics, Martin Luther King reminded them that he was not the inventor of civil disobedience. It was as […]
A Healing Ministry for Modern Times: Christ, Organizing & Public Health
By Victoria Strang During my junior year of college, I traveled to South Africa as part of a student group examining international and community-based health efforts. It was the spring of 2009, and the HIV/AIDS […]
(Re)discovering a Theology of Organizing
To the determent of both the church and the wider movements for social change, US Catholics have been slow to respond to Pope Francis’s call to organize. The time is now to rediscover a new theology and spirituality of organizing.
The Curious Case of the Christian Who Refused to Eat His Kin
By Eric Martin When FBI agents descended upon Block Island in 1970 disguised as birdwatchers, wrote Harvey Cox, they came seeking “one of the strangest and most unusual specimens of the species christianis americanis, a […]
How Would Jesus Organize? Introducing Shark Week XI
In September, less than two months before the election, Shark Week X asked, How Would Jesus Vote? As John Slattery wrote, the question could be rephrased as, ” What would Jesus do, right now, in the […]
Theology 101: Vatican II
By Dr. Massimo Faggioli The Second Vatican Council or Vatican II (1962-1965) was the most important event in the history of the Catholic Church since the Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent (1545-1563). But is […]
Consider the Mycelium: Networks Will Heal the Earth
By Rhonda Miska “Consider the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.” This is just one of many analogies drawn from the natural world in the Gospels. Jesus opts for fig trees, […]
Theology 101: Church Reform
By: Christopher M. Bellitto, Ph.D. Reform is one of the few constants in church history. Religious reform is by its nature rooted in metanoia: the deliberate decision to live an earthly life according to other-worldly […]
Trauma and the Death of the Body of Christ
Trauma and the Death of the Body of Christ[i] When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for […]
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