liturgy
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Earth Gospel Meditation
For this post, I decided to type up a structured meditation from Sam Hamilton-Poore’s Earth Gospel,1 which I’ve recently been working through and find really brilliant. In my experience, it’s been difficult to find ecology-centered liturgy from a Christian perspective.… Continue reading
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Making Community with Music
Liturgy makes us who we are, who we are called to be. It is deeply formative: the words we pray, the way we move our bodies, the stillness of the moment, the music that lingers well after the precise words… Continue reading
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Learning from History: What Can We Do Without the Eucharist?
One of the historical examples that we can look to during this time is the community around the nuns at Port-Royal in seventeenth-century France. Continue reading
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Catholic Women Preach
Catholic Women Preach launched on All Saints Day 2016, just a few months after I wrote my first WIT post on Mary Magdalene and the preaching of women in the Church. Catholic Women Preach coordinates and makes public the voices… Continue reading
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Some Reflections on the Theology of Translation
O’Collins ultimately argues for the superiority of the 1998 translation because it was based on more linguistically-sound guidelines for translation, guidelines that allow it to be more liturgically and theologically accessible to the faithful. My own experience with translation confirms… Continue reading
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Bread and Cup, Bodies and Abuse
I spend a good bit of time listening to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse reflect on ways that the worship and theology of their faith communities impacted their experience of abuse, its traumatic consequences, and their subsequent ability to… Continue reading
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“Go and Tell Them:” Mary Magdalene and Women Preaching
Sojourners Magazine reported last month that L’Osservatore Romano is publishing a series of essays advocating for women to preach in the context of the Roman Catholic Mass. With these authors, and with many others, I agree that women should be… Continue reading
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Neighborly Unction
Tonight, many Orthodox will gather as a community to receive the Sacrament of Unction. A late addition to Holy Week services, unction “is offered to all who are sick in body, mind, or spirit.” The seven Gospel readings reflect the… Continue reading
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White Supremacy, U.S. Citizenship, and the Body of Christ
This week marked the 2nd anniversary of the Haiti earthquake and the 51st anniversary of the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba–the Congo’s first democratically-elected leader following its independence from Belgium. Also this week, the school district of Tuscon, Arizona decided… Continue reading