Lent is a powerful and humbling time in which we are implored to “repent and believe in the gospel.” The liturgical progression through Lent should challenge...
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In fall of 2020, 89-year-old Buell Hall was shot in the throat while sitting in his home near the village of Freeport, Ohio. The shooter, Jagger Miller, didn’t...
bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision by Nadra Nittle (Fortress Press, 2023) Writer, scholar, and public intellectual bell hooks is known as a feminist, not a...
Ramadan—the most joyous month for about two billion Muslims around the world—is around the corner. March 10 will mark the start of the holy season during which...
Few artists can weave together theological, cultural, and aesthetic values as gracefully as Janet McKenzie does. As with many great masters, she makes the most...
“You know, it’s not meant to be a reciprocal relationship,” I told the client who was sitting across from me in my psychotherapy office. He’d been lamenting...
Readings (Year B): Mk 11:1-10Is 50:4-7Psalms 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24Phil 2:6-11Mk 14:1—15:47 Reflection: The king who comes in peace I have dreamed of...
Jewish identity is complicated, involving overlapping religious, cultural, and ethnic groups. But the practice of Judaism rules out actual endorsement of...
Readings (Year B): Jeremiah 31:31 – 34Psalms 51:3 – 4, 12 – 13, 14 – 15Hebrews 5:7 – 9John 12:20 – 33 Reflection: Listen...
Readings (Scrutiny Year A): Ezekiel 37:12 – 14Psalms 130:1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5 – 6, 7 – 8Romans 8:8 – 11John 11:1 – 45...