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Happy Pi(e in the Sky) Day
Elizabeth Anker’s eloquent call to exercise our imaginations to keep them healthy, and dream a better world than the one being fed to us on our screens. Today is Pi Day, 3.14… (The date sort of breaks down after the … Continue reading
Checking In
Today was the fifth Sunday of Lent and the first Sunday of April. How has your Lent been? I’ve been reminded every week at Mass that we are called to be pilgrims of hope, and that hope is a choice … Continue reading
Debriefing “Now What?”
On November 12th, I attended the ICJS webinar “Now What? Debriefing the 2024 Elections”, a panel moderated by Matt Taylor with guests Sarah Posner and Amanda Tyler. It’s now available on the ICJS YouTube channel, so you can watch or … Continue reading
The Days After
What I’ve been reading: And two more posts that won’t embed for some reason What’s on my calendar: From the always excellent Institute for Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Studies What I’m remembering: We are not the first, and we will … Continue reading
The Bells of Notre Dame de Paris
Ringing together, for the first time since the devastating fire. Notre Dame de Paris, priez pour nous.
Advent, Day Five: She Who Is
Word: Bloody Verse: Isaiah 4:5 What if we read the LORD in Isaiah 4:2-6 through a womanly metaphor? as She Who Is, the one who writhed in labor to birth creation? On that day, The branch of She Who Is … Continue reading
Posted in Feminist theology, Liturgical year
Tagged #FuckThisShit, advent, hope, isaiah 4
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But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation. – 1 Thess 5:8 Hope, if we define it as holding to the … Continue reading
So Much Internet: November Post-Synod Edition
As we all continue to process the events and documents of #Synod14, there are bunches of stuff to read: Kyle Cupp directly examines the issue of Power and control in the church: topics which are all too often either unspoken … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Roundup
Tagged all soul's day, bishops, hope, lcwr, st elizabeth, synod14
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A Music Theologian Engages with Pope Francis’ Favorite Music: An Interview with Dirk von der Horst
In December I finally got around to reading the papal interview, and I was very intrigued by the section in which he talked about his favorite music. I didn’t know the pieces he mentioned, though, and I found myself wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Feminist theology, Music
Tagged francis, hope, interview, musicology, opera, papal interview, queer theology, von der Horst
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Mimetic Rivalry, Reform, and Unity in the Church
I read a commentary on church reform by Hans Küng last week, that lingered in my mind as an example of “doing it wrong,” at least from the perspective of mimetic ecclesiology. In this commentary, the substantive issues of church … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Theological anthropology
Tagged cdf, factionalism, faith, holy spirit, hope, kung, love, mimetic rivalry, pope, thesis
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