Who’s Black and Why? Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (Harvard University Press, 2022) Anti-Black racism has an origin. “Race” and the...
Author - Kevin P. Considine
When religious cults begin, they often attract suspicion, scorn, and trepidation. This is nothing new. Civilizations have been suspicious of new and unknown...
Cuando era niño y asistía a la escuela católica, la Anunciación era uno de los misterios gozosos que las buenas hermanas me hicieron aprender de memoria: el...
I did not say anything. Students played it cool. I heard a few students gasp in surprise when they walked into my room after Christmas break. Other...
As Christian mystic Howard Thurman noted, the “religion of Jesus” is supposed to be a word of salvation, a way of survival, and a means for creating a...
In the Gospel of Luke an angel visits a young woman in Nazareth named Mary and asks if she will bear the Messiah. Mary says yes. Then, presto! Mary becomes...
I stood more than 4,000 feet above sea level—close to one mile. As I approached the Johnston Ridge Observatory in the Cascade Mountains, the world opened up...
It was a monthly routine. One afternoon each month, we would meet for lunch at the same local restaurant. We would take turns saying the blessing and paying...
Isabel Flores de Oliva (1586-1617) y Juan Martín de Porres Velázquez (1579-1639) fueron contemporáneos. Ambos vivían en Lima, Perú y eran laicos dominicos...
“God-forsaken.” That’s what she had been told. For 12 years, that’s what they told her. Maybe not using those exact words. But her friends and family, her own...
