I’m happy to report our lectionary makes no use at all of this contentious passage from First Corinthians. In fact, the entire 14th chapter of that letter, in...
Scripture
In late 2002 one of my publishers called me on the phone in a panic: “The pope is killing me!” he moaned. Publishers rarely phone. This was serious. The...
When 2020 started, I thought it was going to be my year. Everything was lining up perfectly: I’d ride out the first few months of the year in a job I didn’t...
How good is your Hebrew? Never mind: Even linguists find it tough to translate the word for what Eve means to Adam. That’s as it should be. What men and women...
At a recent family Christmas gathering on Zoom, one visibly worried relative inquired how we can remain strong for one another in a world that looks...
This whole blighted year I’ve waited for Isaiah with the agonized impatience children suffer for the arrival of Santa. Not that Isaiah is as rare a...
One of the most influential religious socialists in U.S. history was the devout Roman Catholic John Cort, who wrote the landmark 1988 book Christian Socialism...
A natural overlap exists between the movement Jesus founded in first-century Palestine and contemporary feminist thought: Both are concerned with loving all...
I have not been to Mass or any in-person prayer since March. My parish reopened with limited occupancy, but I do not feel comfortable attending any inside...
Truth is truth, no matter who says it. This is an idea I’ve heard and agreed with, repeated and utilized many times. Yet for some who find this message...
