A conversation between theologian Christopher Pramuk and iconographer Father William Hart McNichols.
Christopher Pramuk
Christopher Pramuk is an associate professor of theology and the University Chair of Ignatian Thought and Imagination at Regis University in Denver. He is the author of two award-winning studies of Thomas Merton, as well as Hope Sings, So Beautiful: Graced Encounters Across the Color Line, a meditation on race relations in society and church.
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Review: A master class in Christian apologetics for the 21st century
Roger Haight’s latest book is a master class in Christian apologetics. Haight’s study rises from pointed questions put to the believer, questions that cannot be ignored or wished away.
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The music of the Black Catholic Church is a rich tapestry of joy, suffering and hope.
Joyce Coleman sings the soul of a community whose faith has been tested by fire across generations, centuries, in this country. To sing such a faith is, for this white Catholic, to be filled with wonder and gratitude—beyond words, beyond speech, beyond concept.
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The legacy of Father Adolfo Nicolás
Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., former superior general of the Society of Jesus, helped to recenter the role of imagination in Jesuit education and in the intellectual and spiritual formation of the whole person.
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‘The Man Who Planted Trees’ offers hopes for our suffering planet
Published in 1953, the children’s book can act a parable for coming to grips with climate change.
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On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, a prayer for my teenage son
It is in our acts of mercy, not retribution, that we share in the very life of God.
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The witness of Sister Thea Bowman
Sister Thea did not hesitate to challenge and even chide the bishops for their complicity in a “church of paternalism, of a patronizing attitude” toward people of color.
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Sacred Silence: Lessons from the high desert plains
I was 32 when I made my first trip into the high desert plains of northern New Mexico, known to many as the landscape that inspired artist Georgia O’Keeffe, and to a few as the home of the Taos Pueblo Indians. About an hour’s drive from Taos and 20 minutes more up the state highway from
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The Weary World Rejoices: Rekindling the Spirit of the Nativity
Rekindling the Spirit of the Nativity