One who is blind from birth will always be blind. That is what my medical training teaches me. My faith, however, gives me hope for a different outcome.
Theology
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
When we express ourselves, we imitate God
We are never more ourselves than when we express ourselves.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A novel for the age of ‘Laudato Si’’
Richard Powers’s brilliant novel, ‘The Overstory,’ which won the the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a story about people who feel a kinship with all ecological life.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Angry, glad, heartbroken? There’s a Psalm for that.
The Psalms lengthen the moment, enlarge the experience and connect a private experience to those of other human beings. Wonder fades if we do not “back it up.”
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Never Again: Moving forward after the genocide in Rwanda
How does theology bear witness, speak to what remains, finally, unspeakable?
Posted inArts & Culture, Faith
Remembering Johann Baptist Metz
Rest In Peace: Johann Baptist Metz was the theologian who made the modern academy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: How can Christians care for creation?
In his new book, Christopher Steck recommends a relationship of kinship to animals rather than one of dominion or stewardship.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The street philosophy book behind the ‘Wu-Tang’ television miniseries
“Wu-Tang: An American Saga” is exposing millions more to the role of spirituality in RZA’s life, career and role in Wu-Tang Clan.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Two new books on salvation ask the ultimate question: Are you saved?
Two new books show that Christian approaches to salvation are not as monolithic as one might think.
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Review: Why did so many Catholics leave after Vatican II?
What makes ‘Mass Exodus’ a must-read is careful attention to the qualitative analysis related to disaffiliation from the church.