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Celebrating the life and legacy of civil rights leader James M. Lawson Jr.
September 22, 1928–June 9, 2024
'Tense calm' at the border as migrant shelters brace for impact of Biden's asylum order
Leaders of Catholic organizations helping migrants at the US-Mexico border are denouncing President Joe Biden’s new asylum restrictions as shelter directors brace for its impact on conditions....
June 16, Ordinary 11B (2 Corinthians 5:6–10, (11–13), 14–17)
Paul has been wounded by the church, but he is driven to keep engaging.
Bible societies mount effort to revive view of scripture as source of ancient wisdom
One of the biggest ever research projects into scripture is looking into how people use the Bible and what it means to them—an attempt to understand why, in a time when 90 percent of the world’s po...
On not losing heart (2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1)
Learning to trust in God requires an act of will.
Facing a world on fire
The contemplative life is about getting closer to reality, not retreating from it.
New commission of religiously affiliated higher education aims to spark collaboration
A prominent association of colleges and universities in the United States has created a new commission of religious schools whose aim will be to share with their nonreligious counterparts the innov...
Ivory Coast splits with UMC but other African conferences slow to follow
After the United Methodist Church voted this spring to allow its clergy to marry same-sex couples and lifted its ban on ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy, Methodists around the world watched how the deno...
Faith-based agencies denounce Biden's executive order at the southern border
President Joe Biden signed an executive orde...
The post-Catholic Joyce
Filtered through my deconstructed Catholic faith, Ulysses holds up surprisingly well.
Twin threats to democracy
Patricia Ventura and Edward Chan interrogate the ongoing enabling relationship between White supremacy and neoliberalism.
Latino Episcopalians in the spotlight with Gutiérrez presiding bishop nomination
Six years ago, during the keynote address at the 2018 Nuevo Amanecer conference in Hendersonvi...
June 9, Ordinary 10B (1 Samuel 8:4–11, (12–15), 16–20, (11:14–15))
Samuel is a good leader, until he isn’t.
What’s special about a church building?
How many buildings do we pass by in our daily lives where we could simply walk in, sit down, and participate?
Unknown 18th-century hymns discovered in Wales
If you ever find yourself at a rugby game in Wales, don’t be surprised when the crowds begin to belt out Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah, known as Bread of Heaven to the Welsh....
Jesus’ very Jewish question about sabbath (Mark 2:23-3:6)
Jesus is in alignment with many rabbis when he asks, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath?”
A crushing lack of humanity
Both Apple’s “Crush” ad and Catholic Answers’ AI priest alarmed people. There’s some hope in that reaction.
A pulpit without a context
I asked ChatGPT for a sermon. What it wrote seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere.