Monday, April 9, 2012

Marilynne Robinson on Community and Imagination: Applications for Contemporary Catholicism

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In her new book When I Was a Child I Read Books (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012),  Marilynne Robinson sees the basis of commun...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

As Institutional Church Cracks Open and Tumbles Down, New Life Rises in the Cracks

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And as formal structures of church life appear to be dying in many places around the world, while spiritual hunger and spiritual thir...

Easter Greetings: Hope, Resurrection, and Kindness

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And so this, quite simply, was Steve's and my Holy Saturday celebration: before starting on our trip back home after our Good Fri...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Good Friday Message of USCCB: Attacking Gays More Important Than Helping Poor Immigrants

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And on that tragic erosion of the significance of core Christian affirmations by a parochial, defensive, tribalistic Catholicism that...

Reflections During the Sacred Triduum: Marilynne Robinson and the Central Narrative of Scripture as Wondrous Love

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I'm also reading Marilynne Robinson's new book  When I Was a Child I Read Books  (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) these da...

Good Friday Reflections: A Visit to an Art Museum

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I've been a bit distracted the past several days, since I had a lecture to give Thursday, and a meeting with the publisher of my ...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

More Adrienne Rich: We All Lose When We Force Others into Boxes

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And there's this: here's an excerpt discussing Adrienne Rich's work from a posting of mine on 9 December 2009 :