Showing posts with label moral pedagogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moral pedagogy. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Mass Suffering and Televised Masses: Watch Me Eat for You! Watch ME!

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Coronavirus: A Spanish bishop has hit out at the “bombardment” of the faithful with coronavirus TV broadcast and livestreamed Masses, aski...
Friday, December 6, 2019

What We Are Now Living Through Creates a Serious Crisis of Religious Faith

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In the video above, discussing the death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez in a detention center for immigrants this past ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Father Tom Doyle's Recent Lecture, "What the Sexual Abuse Phenomenon Has Done to the Catholic Church"

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I'd like to point you today to a resource Ruth Krall has told me about: as the video at the head of the posting indicates, recently, ...
Monday, February 19, 2018

I Learn to Read and Am Given a Bible-Story Book: A Southern Baptist Boy in 1950s Arkansas Learns the Facts of Life

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I am six years old. I have just learned to read. It is 1956. Television has come on the scene. But we read, tell each other stories, ra...
Friday, February 9, 2018

Quote for Day: John Pavlovitz on How Sideways We've Gotten When We Care More About Fellings of Bullies Than Lives of Those They Bully

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"This is how sideways it's all gone here: that there are people apparently more concerned about the feelings of the bullies than ...
Friday, November 17, 2017

"The Fish Rots from the Head" and American Catholic Reasons for Choosing Trump: My Take

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It’s all-out war on the poor at this point. https://t.co/v89ZgmRQCd — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 17, 2017 In an article yesterday...
Monday, October 30, 2017

As Manafort Goes Up in Flames, Major White Evangelical Leaders Tweet About . . . Something Else, Anything but Manafort

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. @RobertJeffress discusses the importance for Christ followers to fight for religious freedom. #FamilyTalk https://t.co/wdZkNSf6iu —...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

In the News: Hurricanes, America's Moral Crisis with Trump, and What Are Churches Good for Again?

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Some pieces I've read in the last few days that, to my way of thinking, tell a story. I hope you'll agree: what story do you ...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

As Day Goes On, William J. Barber's Prophetic Moral Testimony about Trump-Ryan Take Health Care Away Death Bill

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Reverend William J. Barber II speaking yesterday at a protest of the Trumpcare legislation — by way of Charles Pierce : 
Friday, March 10, 2017

Reactions to the Trumpcare "Healthcare Plan" = Tax Cut for the Super-Rich: "How About Everyone Gets the Same Healthcare Coverage Congress Gets. Easy!"

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Matt Shuham at Talking Points Memo David Dayen , "The Republican Health-Care Bill Is the Worst of So Many Worlds": Fund...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Good, Bad, Ugly: Week in News — "We Judge This to Be Hypocrisy Unprecedented in the History of American Politics"

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Journalists know: When leaders go berserk, furiously denying there's anything going on, blaming others--that's when you're get...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Authoritarian Shysters Do Not Want Us Making Connections; Making Connections Is the Essence of Being An Adult Moral Thinker with a Developed Conscience

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Charles Pierce then adds ,
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

A Reader Writes: With ICE Raids in My City and a Parish Half Hispanic, My Parish Priest Is a Magical Being with His Head . . . Someplace

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Thanks to Dulcis Memoria for this valuable comment in a thread here this morning : Well, you'll be happy to know that the priest ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Holding the Moral Center As Trump Takes Office: "We Must Resist. There Are No Sidelines. There Is No Middle Ground."

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Sunday, January 15, 2017

Continuing Moral Witness: Churches and Their Apologists Offer Language of Healing in Face of Trump Presidency. We Need Language of Resistance.

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"The Further A Society Drifts From The Truth, The More It Will Hate Those That Speak It." ~George Orwell pic.twitter.com/C...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Keeping the Moral Center Alive in Age of Retrenchment: Valuable Commentary from Last Week

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There have to be very low circles reserved in hell for people who laugh while removing healthcare coverage from... https://t.co/YKS444hn...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

On Moral Trump Cards and Moral Blindness: "Pro-Life" Voters and the Election of Trump

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📈 Top lookups right now, in order: fascism bigot xenophobe racism socialism resurgence xenophobia misogyny https://t.co/Y1nrjCtO...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Jennifer Finney Boylan on Moral Imagination and the Anti-Trans Agenda of the GOP: Once Again, What Good Does Church Do?

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Jennifer Finney Boylan argues that developing "moral imagination" — the ability to imagine the lives of those different ...
Friday, July 15, 2016

About the Fifty Percent of White Catholics Reporting They Will Vote for Trump: It's Donald Trump!

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About the fifty percent of white Catholics who reported to Pew pollsters that they support Donald Trump, as opposed to the forty-six p...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "It Is Another Thing Entirely When You Think That the Positions Being Taken in Your Name Are Doing Affirmative Harm to People"

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At his Sound of Sheer Silence blog , Michael Boyle notes that Cardinal Robert Sarah is the new darling of the Catholic right, particu...