(Editor’s Note: This post is the first of a series of three reflections on the 10-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Be sure to check out the posts on Saturday and Sunday by Lorraine Cuddeback and John […]
Category: Theology and Culture
From the Editors: News for Fall 2015
Dear Faithful Readers, Happy beginning of a new semester! As modern-day theologians, our lives cycle with the rest of academia, so the whispers of September welcome in new students, new committee meetings, and new graduate […]
Living as Mercy in Anticipation of Christ’s Return
A professor once defined mercy as “the willingness to enter into the chaos of another.”[1] This definition struck me as rather profound as my basic understanding of mercy had focused on concepts like kindness and […]
DT Podcast Episode 10 – Vince Miller
For our tenth episode, the podcast welcomes Vincent J. Miller of the University of Dayton! Vince spoke with Stephen Okey at this past summer’s CTSA convention in Milwaukee, WI. They talked at length about Vince’s […]
DT Podcast Episode 9 – Tom O’Meara
This week’s podcast episode features a very special conversation with Tom O’Meara! Amanda Osheim and Stephen Okey spoke with Tom about his long and prolific career in theology, beginning with his joining the Dominican Order […]
Memorizing Transformation: My experience of John 3:16 then and now
Memorizing Bible verses was the thing to do when I was a kid growing up in an evangelical environment. We memorized verses at Pioneer Girls (the Christian version of girl scouts), we memorized verses in […]
Staring At My Pile of Dirt: The cost of growing the kingdom of God in Chicago
The reign of God. God’s rule. The household of God. God’s dream for the earth. Basileia tou Theou. The justice of God… The kingdom of God is the core content of the synoptic gospels. In […]
Please do NOT pardon the interruption: Ezekiel, prophetic imagination, and mercy in contemporary social movements
“What the Church does with its creeds and its doctrinal tradition… it flattens out all the images and metaphors to make it fit into a nice formulation and then it’s deathly. So we have to […]
Vacation Bible School: The Merciful God of David
Mercy is borne in conditions of brokenness and is itself a breaking open of the self. God’s mercy and the human mercy that it inspires appear repeatedly throughout the bible and figure famously in the […]
Five Things I Learned from the Benedictines
The Benedictines are perhaps a little out of fashion today: maybe they always were. (After all, Benedict narrowly avoided being poisoned by the monks at his first monastery.) I feel incredibly blessed that the wisdom […]
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