Last semester I took a course entitled The Ethics of Thomas Aquinas. Though I had read several parts of the Summa Theologiae before, I had never had the opportunity to systematically work through what is […]
Category: Theology and Culture
Theology 101: Systematic Bias (and Flint, MI)
The horrible tragedy of water poisoning in Flint, Michigan, is the latest example of systematic bias in daily American life. Systematic bias, sometimes referred to as structural or systemic bias, is one of the more […]
The New Normal
By Christopher Pramuk, Xavier University “It’s almost impossible to hold officers accountable, barring incredible circumstances. The public just accepts that this is what police had to do.” In an intelligent and brave piece published recently […]
Baptism in an Indifferent World
The feast of the Lord’s Baptism has much to say to the culture of indifference that allows the destruction of people and planet. The Lord’s baptism invites us to develop an incarnational spirituality throughout our lives.
A Heart of Mercy for the New Year
There is something unsettling, or maybe just de-centering, when you live through a Christmas marked by the illness of someone you love. Christmas looks, feels, sounds, tastes different. Anxiety overwhelms eager anticipation, and relief overshadows […]
In Search of Greatness: Celebrating Christmas in the Season of Trump
The Christmas season offers Christians a very different model of greatness than the one that is assumed in presidential debates and campaign ads. What model do we choose?
at a payphone at a gas station on Christmas Eve
And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to […]
Christ Comes Uninvited
While being interviewed by Krista Tippett for the On Being podcast, actor and activist Martin Sheen shared his favorite passage from Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton… words that I’ve not been able to […]
Waiting in Silence: The Coming of Christ-in-Us
Advent aims to unsettle us, to make us wait at a particularly uncomfortable crossroads. Our readings, songs, and liturgies take us from our comfortable lives and situate us again where we actually are: in the the […]
From the Editors: On Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America
We, as Christian theologians in the public sphere, stand together in solidarity with Muslims in the United States in support of all Muslim citizens and residents of the United States. We do so not despite […]
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