Talking with family, this season
This time of year, many of us spend time with family. It can be hard to have a conversation with the people you love about subjects like religion (too personal!)…
Christmas and Chanuka are both about birthing light in a dark time of the year. Indigenous People: “our Dreamtime teaches us the rules for living in the environment.”
Matthew Fox, Dec 19, 2019 Christmas and Chanuka are both about birthing light in a dark time of the year. The aboriginal people of Australia, probably the most ancient tribe…
Beating the lay leadership drum at this point could have unintended consequences. There are strengths in church structure as it is/was. Good governance is most likely to emerge when there is a balance between the center and the periphery.
December 2019, Sean Michael Winters, NCRonline.org Last week, the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago hosted an event about church governance entitled “The Open Question of Church Polity:…
Pope supports those doing civil disobedience
BY ROSE MARIE BERGER NOV 30, 2019 SHARE Pope Francis announced this week that “the use of nuclear weapons is immoral, which is why it must be added to the Catechism of…
Solidarity has never been so important
“There are victims and victimizers. Solidarity has seldom been so painful or so difficult to sustain or so humbling or, in the end, so important.” – Margaret Steinfels to the…
People over money: Departing Consumer Culture
Departing the Consumer Culture Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Authors and scholars Peter Block, John McKnight, and Walter Brueggemann partnered to write An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture, which describes the…
Pope Francis, Dec 2019 <https://zenit.org/articles/remember-to-make-life-a-love-story-with-god-pope-reminds/> “when we let God bring us beyond ourselves”, life changes and we “attain the fullest truth of our being. Here we find the source and…
Key insight from Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton
From Matt Fox, 12/7/19 Dorothy Day speaks of love as “a harsh and dreadful thing” when she writes: We are not expecting utopia here on this earth. But God meant…
