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Books
Back in the 1960s there was almost universal acceptance among social scientists of the ldquo secularization thesis rdquo the belief that as societies became more modern mdash more economically developed technologically sophisticated democratic etc mdash they would become increasingly secular
Signs Of the Times
Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence, according to a World Bank report.
Film
Together with director James Franco, Paul Mariani set out to find the poet, Hart Crane.
Signs Of the Times
The Quakers consider the boycott a nonviolent move for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Editorials
When we Christians hear the Easter greeting of peace, we should be dismayed as much as consoled.
How Christians suffer, die and rise with Jesus
Arts & CultureBooks
Ron Hansen reviews Andrew Dubus III’s memoir of his absentee father
Books
In the wake of her husband's death, Joyce Carol Oates struggled with resentment, despair, rage, and guilt.
Signs Of the Times
Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said "there’s just an inability among the bishops together to speak clearly on this matter."
In All Things
I wonder if there are some Lady Gaga students and theological aficionados out there who can help parse the significance of her role in contemporary popular culture I am late to the party having been led to Gaga by my undergraduate students who get her symbolic order on a more intuitive level
In All Things
What do the distinctive spiritualities of Jesus Mary and Joseph have to teach us about our own daily lives nbsp How do their human experiences speak to our human lives nbsp How can the individual lives of each of the members of the Holy Family help us in our Christian journeys nbsp National
The Good Word
I appreciate that you have listened to me for so many days but I want you to walk beside me while I tell you something else Please please join me walk beside me I told you yesterday that Cleopas and I had decided or at least were thinking about walking home today Sunday and that is what we a
In All Things
Cambridge MA All week while mixing the business of school with the solemn events of Holy Week I have been pondering the existential question ldquo What shall I blog for Holy Week Easter rdquo Given my interreligious commitments the question has become ldquo How does the Resurrection affec
The Good Word
Today is Saturday We just sat on the floor and stayed hidden out of sight and prayed I have never seen so many people crushed in this way I sat without moving but it felt as if I were stumbling falling in the dark We did talk about Jesus but there was such a sense of loss in the room It wa
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Michael Gerson has written a much-needed conservative Christian take-down of Ayn Rand up in his column for the Washington post nbsp Ayn Rand rsquo s adult-onset adolescence It rsquo s an appropriate topic during Holy Week nbsp Gerson outlines the conflict between Christianity and Rand rsquo s
The Good Word
I would rather not talk to you today I have no idea what happened no idea what just took place After the meal the Apostles walked with Jesus to the garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives All of the Apostles but one Judas had already left The others said that there was a strange tension
In All Things
The cage match between the bishops and theologians emerging out of the U S bishops Doctrine Committee s treatment of Fordham Professor Sister Beth Johnson grew more crowded this week The Catholic Theological Society of America has already gone on the record with its critique of the committee s cri