There are some voters out there who are passionately in favor of Hillary Clinton, and there are some who are passionately in favor of Donald Trump. However, polls seem to show that a higher percentage […]
Tag: Theological Shark Week
How Would Jesus Vote? Introducing Shark Week X.
On the one hand, it’s a comical question. And perhaps one to be disregarded as clickbait in an increasingly monetized internet of thoughts and feelings. On the other hand, just like the much-ridiculed campaign of […]
Lenten Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
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. […]
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 […]
Letter to the Editors: “Freshman Daughter Drop Off”
The following letter was sent to the editors of Daily Theology after the announcement of the current Octave of Theological Reflection. We are proud to present it as an addendum to this, the second day […]
Seeds of Life and Love: The Contested Identity of Catholic Universities
Chris Pramuk, Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University and editor of our partner blog, Raids Across the Color Line, has published a response to DT’s recent Shark Week, specifically to Kevin Ahern’s post from Thursday. We’ve […]
Catholic Identity and Online Education
What is it that makes an education Catholic? Can one get a Catholic education online? Would a degree from an online program be any more or less Catholic than one from a “traditional” college or […]
The Catholic Campus and the Gospel of the Marginalized
The biggest challenge facing Catholic higher education today is not how many core theology classes we have, though this is clearly important…Rather, the critical challenge to Catholic institutional identity today concerns how we embody what Francis describes as the “gospel of the marginalized.”
Models of Catholic Higher Education
My thanks to Katherine Greiner for the landscape of Catholic higher education painted by her introductory post. For me, it was a reminder that questions of Catholic identity are as perennial as those of Christian discipleship. […]
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