When the headlines appear, the questions come in. I’m used to this. And in fact, I’m absolutely flattered by it. It means a lot to me that people take the time to ask for my thoughts about whatever Catholic controversy fills the news on any given day. Sometimes, friends ask me to sort out the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Community’
June 9, 2010
Just Say the Word
When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering.” Jesus said to him, “I will go and heal him.” The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the [...]
June 3, 2010
Can the Eucharist Unite Us?
Check out my latest post on Patheos.com, entitled “Can the Eucharist Unite Us?“
May 6, 2010
Pray for Us
Check out my latest post at From the Pews in the Back, entitled “Pray for Us.”
April 18, 2010
In Loving Memory of My Catholicism
My heart sank last week as I read Kate’s blog entry, “Done.” In her testimony about trying to leave Catholicism, she wrote, “I’m feeling these days like I’m in the midst of a breakup, you know, the really horrible kind where you know it isn’t going to work but you want it to so badly [...]
April 16, 2010
Catholicism & Sexuality: A Roundtable
Check out a new article on Patheos, entitled, “Catholicism & Sexuality: A Roundtable.” As you’ll find, I am one of the roundtable participants.
March 29, 2010
Silence.
“We don’t need a moment of silence. There has been too much silence already. I propose noise—a moment of clapping.” A woman said this to Karen during her recent trip to Honduras. Along with a group of students from Harvard Divinity School, Karen was there to learn from the women of this rural Honduran community [...]
February 20, 2010
I Think God Moves in People
Sometime before midnight on New Years Eve I found myself nuzzled into the living room couch with another friend who studies theology in graduate school. Amid the dancing, yelling, and clamoring of glasses at the party that surrounded us, she spoke one of the most simple, profound things I had heard about God in a [...]
January 20, 2010
The God Who Was Not There–or Here, Today
“‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?’ gave way–here is the heart of the story–to ‘But into your hands I commend my spirit.’ Jesus handed himself over to the God who was not there. And found God there. In trusting the One who was not there, Jesus was resurrected…” –James Carroll, from Practicing [...]
November 25, 2009
The Difficult “Thank You”
Check out my latest post–a Thanksgiving post!–on CTA’s Young Adult Catholic Blog, entitled “The Difficult ‘Thank You.’”
