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September 24, 2025

Does God Need Me?

A Conversation About Relationship Recently, a student said to me, “I’m having a hard time with the Trinity.” I smiled, as this is probably the most common response to this lesson. Let’s face it. The Trinity is a complex doctrine,… Continue reading

February 14, 2024

I Hate St. Augustine and So Should You

I do not say “hate” lightly. His worst rhetorical excesses pushed Christian theology to a radically toxic message, one that is hard to extricate from our doctrine. I did not come to this position in an offhand, uninformed way, though.… Continue reading

January 14, 2013

When Is It Acceptable To Treat Equal People Unequally?

Today, the National Catholic Reporter tells of an article that appeared in “the Vatican’s semi-official newspaper,” L’Osservatore Romano, which was written by one-time feminist and current historian Lucetta Scaraffia. In it, she “compared proponents of gay marriage, with their championing of ‘marriage equality,’… Continue reading

April 14, 2011

Intellectual Disability and Theological Anthropology

Having finally finished comps, I’ve been meaning to write a little about what turned out to be my favorite exam question, namely, my question on disability studies and Christian theological anthropology (though I didn’t get asked about it…le sigh). My… Continue reading