Showing posts with label spirituality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spirituality. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Ruth Krall, "Persephone’s Journey into the Underworld: Lessons for Our Time"

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Ancient portrayal of Demeter and Persephone, Apulian red-figure loutrophoro, ca. 4th century BCE, from the J. Paul Getty Museum, at the Theo...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

A Piece of Personal Testimony on All Saints' Day: The Sanctity of Many Queer People and Their Loving Relationships

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This All Saints' day, I think of a little iconostasis I kept for some years next to my desk. The saints whose pictures or icons I had on...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

My Response to "American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel" — Still None, Still Done, as US Christianity Exhibits Total Lack of Imagination in Face of Pandemic

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I did watch " American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel. " It’s an excellent film and great statement, and I highly recomme...
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...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Recommended: Ian Gilmour, Slavery to Civil Rights

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I'd like to recommend to you a little monograph entitled Slavery to Civil Rights , written by my friend Ian Gilmour, a Presbyteri...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Ruth Krall, Prolegomena: An Act of Re-Thinking (Part 2)

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This posting is a continuation of an essay by Ruth Krall, the first part of which I posted several days ago . As that previous postin...
Monday, December 24, 2018

A Christmas Story

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Since Christmas is a time for telling ourselves stories…. The Christmas story is one we have to make way for against all odds.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody, a Family Funeral, and the Inexplicable Cruelty of Right-Wing U.S. Catholicism: An Advent Conundrum

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Sometimes I follow threads in Catholic discussions on Twitter down rabbit holes. I know I shouldn't do this, because the holes inev...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

Putting Christ Back Into Christmas: The Death of Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin

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Sunday, July 15, 2018

A Story of Two Jesuits, with Commentary on the Current State of the Catholic Church (Especially re: LGBTQ People)

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This is a story of two Jesuits. I'm telling it now primarily because news I read about one of the two this week gave me a shock, ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

POTUS Headed to Church on Easter Day: "NEED WALL!" — Deep Shame of White American Christianity As Hatred of Immigrants Normalized

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‘NEED WALL!’: Trump Heads to Easter Service After Threatening Mexico, Attacking Democrats https://t.co/t1BkpKInqB pic.twitter.com/zO9Oeo...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Jesus' Crucifixion and Resurrection, and His Table Open to All: Why Politics Are Unavoidable on Good Friday and Easter

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Because of the very powerful slaveholder religion  (and here ) crafted by Southern Christian apologists for slavery, which pretends t...

This Is Easter for Me: Joan Baez Singing "The President Sang Amazing Grace"

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This is Easter for me — Joan Baez singing "The President Sang Amazing Grace," with Jeff Scheer's beautiful animated video a...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

As Men Lift Up the Cross in Holy Week Liturgies Around the World, Some Theological Questions

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In a just-published article entitled " In an age of Trump and Stormy Daniels, evangelical leaders face sex scandals of their own...

What Does it Mean to Learn on Good Friday That Sacramento Police Shot Stephon Clark 7 Times in Back?

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Don Thompson and Sophia Bollag  at TPM What does it mean to read this report on Good Friday?
Friday, March 30, 2018

"You can't talk about #GoodFriday with any kind of moral relevance—any understanding of how Christ's crucifixion occurs all around us—without discussing police shootings"

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"Between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men & women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Rom...

Behold the Wood of the Cross: Good Friday Meditation on Crosses . . . And Crossings

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Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On (London: Faber & Faber, 2016): Oh to live in the world one sees from the train — empty, ...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Christmas Eve in Dark Times: Still, One Can Dream. And Hope.

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I am, I have to admit, a pushover for flashmob videos, though I have a feeling the flashmob phenomenon has peaked. The world has taken a ...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Happy Solstice: Veni et Illumina Sedentes in Tenebris

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Happy winter solstice to all of you readers. The photo above is one Steve took in 2013 a day or so after the winter solstice, at the Pa...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Dark and Light: Winter Solstice, Hannukah, Christmas (2)

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Light: It never takes longer than a few minutes, whenever they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a part...