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How Our Theology Keeps Us Racist
How could it be possible for a group of Christians to think twice about collectively condemning white supremacy? Many were asking this question last month as we watched the drama of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention unfold… Continue reading
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Charity and Judgment: Or, How to Read Sinful Theologians
Any brief study of Christian theologians throughout the centuries will inevitably shine light on these troubling actions and behaviors. So we’re left in an awkward position when it comes to reading and using these theologians. Are we supposed to simply… Continue reading
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The Failure To Bother To Love: On Ignorance and Ableism
A few years ago, I wrote an article entitled, “Privilege as Blindness: Why North American Christians Need Haiti” for the online theology journal, The Other Journal. In it, I argued that social privilege impairs the privileged person’s ability to see… Continue reading
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Creation and the Killing of Non-Human Animals
As most of you have probably heard by now, yesterday, in an incomprehensibly bizarre and senseless act, the owner of a private wildlife reserve near the small town of Zanesville, Ohio set free all 56 of the “exotic” animals in… Continue reading
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Karl Rahner on the Assumption of Mary
“If God’s grace is doing in us what it did in her, than we too are blessed by grace, and beloved.” Continue reading
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Artificial Insemination: St. Augustine’s Ideal Sex Act?
The Catholic magisterium considers artificial insemination to be wrong, even in the case of a wife being artificially inseminated by her husband. As Donum Vitae argues, “artificial insemination within marriage cannot be admitted except for those cases in which the… Continue reading