Showing posts with label Martin Luther King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin Luther King. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Wendell Griffen: "Chickens of Racism, Materialism and Militarism Have Come Home to Roost in the Convergence of Trump’s Presidency and the COVID-19 Pandemic"

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  I'd like to point readers to a valuable essay my friend Wendell Griffen published two days ago in  Baptist News Global . It's...
Friday, April 6, 2018

In the News: Another Day, Another Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Man; POTUS Race-Baits Again; White Evangelicals Stage Coup

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These are thought-provoking things I've read in the past several days I thought I'd pass on to you; if any theme links them,...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Remembering Martin Luther King's Death: "Such Barbarism and Inhumanity . . . Are Not Really Past"

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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

"In Reality, a Gospel without Justice Is No Gospel at All": Implications for the Catholic Church and LGBT People, and for Catholic "Bridge-Builders"

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I wish I had realized sooner how some American Christians make social justice into a boogeyman by constantly saying that such concerns ...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Where Have All the Christian Intellectuals Gone? (Does Anyone Remember John Paul's and Ratzinger's Purge of Catholic Theologians?)

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It's a thing now among journalists and religion commentators to ask what has happened to the public intellectuals of the churches...
Monday, May 16, 2016

From Strawberries on the Cake to the Diaconate: Commentary on Pope Francis's Remark About Studying Women and the Diaconate

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As many of you will perhaps know, Pope Francis made an off-the-cuff remark to a closed-door meeting of superiors of religious women l...
Friday, October 9, 2015

On Evil and Angelic Troublemakers: What Bayard Rustin (and Martin Luther King and Gandhi) Were About

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Colleen, thank you for reminding me that angelic troublemakers should not forget their vocation to be troublemakers. The point on whi...
Monday, September 28, 2015

From Nuns on the Bus Town Hall Meeting in Little Rock: Rev. Wendell Griffen on Radical Revolution of Values

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I recently blogged about the town hall meeting the Nuns on the Bus held in my community of Little Rock on 13 September, which my husband...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Douglas Laycock on U.S. Catholic Bishops and Marriage Equality: "Being on the Losing Side of a Revolution Can Be Very Dangerous for Churches" (the Continuing Ruse of U.S. Catholic Centrism)

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Father Thomas Reese reports today at National Catholic Reporter  that University of Virginia professor Douglas Laycock thinks ...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Quote for Day: Wendell Griffen — "'Unrest' Is What Oppressed, Wounded, and Outraged People Do in Their Quest for Justice"

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Wendell Griffen at his Justice Is a Verb! blog on how "civil unrest" takes on an entirely new complexion depending on who...
Monday, January 19, 2015

On Martin Luther King, Jr., Day: Jerry Slevin on Pope Francis's Trip to the Philippines, and Catholics' Dream

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And another King-day-themed posting: at his Christian Catholicism site , Jerry Slevin comments on Pope Francis's encounter in the...

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, Legacy: Celebrating the Power of Ordinary People Acting Together to Bring About Effective Change

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I have long thought that Martin Luther King, Jr., was put to death by the powers that be when he began to make the connections (a nod t...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Andrew Sullivan on Jonathan Rauch and the "Theological Underpinnings" of Marriage as a Gendered Institution: My Take

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Andrew Sullivan's take on the Jonathan Rauch essay  calling for special tolerance for those who oppose same-sex marriage out of ...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Panti Bliss on "Good" People, What Just Happened in Kansas, Parallels to Civil Rights Movement, and Club Catholic: In Summary

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Two days ago, I puzzled , as I frequently do here, over the seeming inability of the "good" people of the world to hear t...
Friday, February 14, 2014

More on Michael Sam's Coming Out: Powerful Testimony of Texas Sportscaster and Implications for Club Catholic

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Monday, January 20, 2014

Remembering Martin Luther King: James Cone and Taylor Branch Talk to Bill Moyers

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Today in History: Martin Luther King, Jr., Has a Dream

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Today in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" in Washington, D.C. Videos of the speech are a...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

In News: SCOTUS on Dignity and DOMA, Chris Hedges on Edward Snowden, Regnerus Cavils, Pam's House Blend

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At dotCommonweal , John McGreevy suggests that Andrew Sullivan may be the most influential lay Catholic in the U.S. in the past fift...
Monday, January 21, 2013

President Obama's Re-Inauguration on Martin Luther King Day: Commentary on the Synchronicity

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Very interesting commentary today on the synchronicity that brings together the second inauguration of President Obama and the Martin...
Friday, June 22, 2012

More End-of-Week News: Maciel and John Paul II, Bayard Rustin, and Crisis of Democracy

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I apologize that I'm a bit pressed for blogging time today, as I prepare for a day trip to chase down some information for the bo...