By: M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College The Christian liturgical calendar reenacts in real time key events in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God, as these are recorded in the four Gospels. […]
Category: Theology and Culture
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 […]
Student Protest & The Liberal Arts
By Brian Hamilton The last five years have seen an explosion of protest movements, from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park to Baltimore. They’ve targeted austerity measures in Greece, racist policing in Ferguson, underfunded schools in […]
Rationalizations and Progress: A Case Study for Catholic Academia
Every place, every person, every situation of history in the United States has some connection to the ravages of chattel slavery.[1] As I’ve written about in the past, modern American society was built on the systematic […]
The University as Social Force? An Octave of Theological Reflection
From February 21-28, consciously both deep in the season of Lent and during Black History Month, Daily Theology will host its 8th week of reflection, entitled “University as Social Force? Protest and Activism in Academia.” This is an introduction to the week.
1st Sunday of Lent: “one who has similarly been tested in every way”
When I was a junior at Georgetown, I was part of a Bible study on the Gospel of Mark. Although I had been raised as a sort of lackadaisical Presbyterian, I had been trending towards […]
What We’re Doing for Lent: Some Reflections
If you have not already checked out Kate Mahon‘s post, Rend Your Hearts: How to Break Your Heart this Lent, then please give it a read now! Some additional folks at Daily Theology wanted to […]
Rend Your Hearts: How to Break Your Heart This Lent
What are you giving up for Lent? I hate this question. I hate it in part because my small-town Minnesota sensibilities recoil at the idea of publicizing sacrifice. If I give up something big, won’t […]
Science, Faith, and Horror in Flint, Michigan
It shouldn’t have surprised me to watch Donald Trump say that he openly supports forms of torture far worse than waterboarding, but it did. It is hard to write during an election season, politics being what they […]
Theology 101: Salvation
By: Robert A. Krieg, University of Notre Dame What is salvation? And how do we find it? According to some Christians, a follower of Jesus should know the day and hour when he or she was […]
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