Days after the “Unite the Right” rally occurred in Charlottesville this past August 2017, my sister sent me a link to the podcast “It’s Been a Minute” with Sam Sanders. Tom and I sat down […]
Tag: dialogue
Nurturing Relationship and Transforming Dialogue in Academia
Academia. It can feel like a world of competition, self-promotion, hierarchical rituals such as sitting in rows and hand-raising, racing to publish, and pervasive workaholism and point-proving. Indeed, our work as theologians and ethicists is critical to […]
The Struggle of Dialogue & Dialoguing Toward Struggle
The Catholic Common Ground Initiative (CCGI), founded by the late Cardinal Bernardin, is a nation-wide project committed to facing difficult issues in the Church which create derision and polarization, lifting these issues up for dialogue. […]
Open Letter to Pope Francis: Being Church at the Peripheries
Below is an open letter to Pope Francis written by two Daily Theology contributors, Kevin Ahern and Meg Stapleton Smith with the input from Catholic leaders from around the United States . This letter does […]
Common Ground Is Holy Ground: Spirituality of Dialogue and Participation in the Trinity
On the Feast of St. Basil, theologian of the Trinity, Daily Theology’s celebration of the Christmas season continues with a guest post by Dannis Matteson. “What will it take to make the engagement in […]
Two Features of a Good Conversation
Since we started Daily Theology a couple years ago, we’ve taken as our purpose promotion of and participation in good conversation about theology and spirituality in daily life. In that time, I myself have put […]
The CTSA Kerfuffle: Struggle On Sisters and Brothers
*Please see a note of clarification from Holly Taylor-Coolman in the first comment in the comments section below Introduction As I wade into the discussion about the recent happenings at the Catholic Theological Society of […]
Who is My Digital Neighbor? World Communications Day 2014
Yesterday Pope Francis released his message for the 48th World Communications Day, “Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter.” Since 1967, most of these messages (and every one since 1996) have been […]
Praying for Our Enemies and the Pope’s Interview
I use the word “enemies” here not in the sense of any stable sort of relationship, but rather to signify those relationships of contention that have developed between members and factions within the Church. I […]
Thoughts from the Science Classroom: Faith!? What faith?!
Where is faith in the science classroom? Where is faith in the physics courses, studying the latest developments from the Large Hadron Collider; the astrophysics graduate classrooms, perusing the search for life on other planets via […]
