By Marcus Mescher What does “solidarity” mean? People use this term to imply unity with a cause or group, but for many, it’s not altogether clear what makes solidarity something different from community. In Catholic […]
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Five Responses to Job’s Suffering
For to me sighing comes more readily than food; my groans well forth like water. For what I feared overtakes me; what I dreaded comes upon me. I have no peace nor ease; I have […]
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 […]
What did we expect? #BlackLivesMatter
What did we expect? What did we expect when we did not react as we should, when #BlackLivesMatter came and went in the public sphere, when most people–especially most white people–went back to work as […]
The Church is Not Yet Dead: An Interview with Dr. Shannen Dee Williams
Over the last month, I have had the privilege of interviewing, via email, Dr. Shannen Dee Williams, an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Williams is currently working on the manuscript for her first […]
