You have not danced so badly, my dear, Trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One. You have waltzed with great style, My sweet, crushed angel, To have ever neared God’s Heart at all. Our Partner is notoriously difficult to follow, And even His best musicians are not always easy to hear. So what if [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Theology’
May 15, 2010
The Labyrinth
Amid these long days curled over my laptop and yellow-paged library books, I have been stepping out into the fresh air for a walk on the Labyrinth. The white-stoned, circular meditation walk rests on the edge of a grassy lawn across from the entrance of Andover, Harvard’s theology library. The Labyrinth is warm from many [...]
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 [...]
November 21, 2009
Scruples (Or, How The Protestant Reformers Might Just Save Me)
Scruples. It is a silly-sounding world, and it describes what is possibly one of the most influential forces in Christian history. Scruples literally means “an uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action,” or “a doubt or hesitation as to what is morally right in a certain situation.” In the context [...]
November 9, 2009
Easy Talk, Hard Livin’
I think it is safe to say that there has never been a time when religion existed that a need for inter-religious dialogue did not. And with the horror of the Holocaust looming, with the violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ever-occupying our headlines, and with that image of the tumbling Twin Towers forever impressed upon [...]
October 27, 2009
Fire.
Lately each time I enter the gates of Harvard Yard from the concrete and brick of the Square, I am greeted with the opening word from Pascal’s Mémorial. The demanding red foliage of this one large tree declares, “Fire.” Mémorial is Pascal’s cryptic account of the two-hour mystical vision he experienced one night at age [...]
October 21, 2009
This Is What A Catholic Woman Looks Like
New stuff on a new site! Check out my article, “This Is What A Catholic Woman Looks Like,” featured in the “Young Women & Catholicism” column at www.Patheos.com.
September 28, 2009
Suspicious (and Outraged). Justifiably So?
I was sitting in a coffee shop in Cambridge, happily reading a book on this beautiful day, when I received a Catholic news update from the National Catholic Reporter (NCR). I was so upset by what I read that I simply could not return to my previous reading. As many of you know, last year [...]
