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  • 31st Anniversary of the Assassination of Óscar Romero

    Following up on Katie’s post on prayer and militarism, let us remember that today is the 31st anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero, killed while celebrating mass in a hospital chapel for standing with the people of El… Continue reading

  • Who Are the Soldiers of the Body of Christ?

    Ever since the beginning of the war on terror, I have been hearing some version of the following prayed as a petition during mass:  “for the safety of our troops.”  Sometimes, the prayer has also identified “our” troops as those… Continue reading

  • Jon Stewart and the Daily Show Crew on Libya

    This is one of those times when Jon Stewart says it best.  In this first video, Stewart interviews “Senior Libyan Correspondent” Aasif Mandvi on the war, er, I mean “coalition partnership imposing a no fly zone through a military operation”… Continue reading

  • More on Jewish-Christian relations

    While we’re sort of on the topic of Jewish-Christian relations, a wonderful lecture (ten years old) from the always-humorous and incisive Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish feminist New Testament scholar. Among the topic she addresses: why we need to pay attention… Continue reading

  • Benedict’s new book & current theology regarding Jewish-Christian relations

    This started as a comment on Sonja’s post below, regarding Benedict’s interpretation of the long-lethally interpreted (yes, I mean that literally) line in the Gospel of Matthew, “His blood be upon us and our children.” So you should read that… Continue reading

  • She’s Everywhere: Reflections on Meeting Guadalupe in Mexico

    She’s everywhere. Dangling from my rearview mirror, she is a constant companion, journeying with me from place to place, a reminder to be patient with the drivers and with my husband sitting in the passenger seat. On a prayer card,… Continue reading

  • It’s Adam and Eve AND Adam and Steve

    Often, the fact that, in Scripture, the first human beings were a man (Adam) and a woman (Eve) and that this man and woman had a sexual relationship is assumed to be clear and irrefutable evidence that homosexuality is wrong.… Continue reading

  • The Woman’s Bible Revisited

    Having recently re-read Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s In Memory of Her, a now classic text on feminist biblical hermeneutics, I am prompted to mention a highly significant moment in the field that came almost a century earlier.  Schüssler Fiorenza leads off… Continue reading

  • Church Teaching and Violence Against LGBT Persons

    Although the magisterium of the Catholic church insists that violence against homosexuals is always wrong, it also depicts homosexuals as a grave threat to society: homosexual unions do “violence” to children raised within these unions[1], homosexuals are a threat to… Continue reading