2014
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Jesus Had A Wife!? Why Is Everyone Freaking Out?
Before we rush to re-assure ourselves that Jesus was never married, I wish we would take King’s advice and ask ourselves why Jesus’ sexual and relational life matters so much and what is at stake. This discovery also provides a… Continue reading
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Let the Conversation Continue: There Is No Purely Catholic Politics (A Reply to David Cloutier, Michael Baxter, and William Cavanaugh)
Some Words of Thanks Yesterday over at the blog called Catholic Moral Theology, Professor David Cloutier posted a thoughtful reply to my take on the debate between Massimo Faggioli and co-authors Michael Baxter and William Cavanaugh in the cyber pages… Continue reading
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A Truly Catholic Politics? A Response to Michael Baxter and William Cavanaugh
Baxter and Cavanaugh also implicitly contrast the unity secured by wholehearted and unsullied membership in the church with the inherently divisive and atomizing politics of the nation-state. In so doing, they celebrate a church that never existed. Continue reading
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Refusing to Reconcile, Part Three: The Best Man Holiday and the Besideness of Blackness
This is the third and final part in a series of posts on refusing the logic of reconciliation. Please read the first two before commenting. In the themes it explores and relationality it depends on, the Best Man Holiday is… Continue reading
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Jesus Was Not A Bully; The Ambo Is Not A Bully Pulpit
Today at the eleven o’clock mass at St. Mary’s church in Marion, Ohio, the pastor left the altar before giving his homily and approached a family with several small children under the age of four who were sitting near the… Continue reading
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Eating Cake and Swinging Sticks
In “Cake and Compassion in Arizona,” Fr. Lawrence Farley creates a rhetorical association and then immediately denies its impact: he likens the refusal of baking a cake for a lesbian couple to the same refusal of a Jew or an… Continue reading
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Teaching Note: On Confronting Violence Against Women in the Christian Tradition
When I teach theology to undergraduates, I make sure to spend some time on Augustine, typically his Confessions. I don’t think this is a necessary practice for all theology instructors, but I personally find Augustine to be a useful entry… Continue reading
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Work-Life Balance and Parenting Styles: Bringing Up Bébé
A few days after I wrote my last post on work-life balance in academia, a dialogue broke out between the Catholic Moral Theology blog and Women in Theology about work-life balance in the context of motherhood in academia. My post… Continue reading
