tradition
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Innovation as Faithful Witness
Why is the Church with a capital C across Catholic and Protestant reluctant to innovate? Does it resemble destabilization or a betrayal of something powerful, perceived as divine truth? Throughout history, the Church has regarded “change” as disquieting and even… Continue reading
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On the CRC and Religious Estrangement
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a seminar focused on interfaith teaching. At one point, the facilitator emphasized the importance of both change agents, those who seek to innovate or transform, and tradition agents, those who preserve and transmit… Continue reading
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“Everything Old is New Again”: Andor’s Mon Mothma and the Dangers of Tradition
Warning: This blog post contains spoilers for Season 1 and Season 2 of Andor (Disney+). I’m not much of a Star Wars fan, but I have absolutely devoured the Star Wars show Andor, which recently released its second (and final)… Continue reading
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Renovating Tradition: Insights from Dorothee Soelle (Part One)
Soelle’s feminism simultaneously takes seriously the patriarchal history of Christianity and remains committed to the search for the liberative heart of the Gospel. Continue reading
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Is There A Place For Women at Our Lord’s Table? Some Questions for Ross Douthat
In a New York Times blog post today, Ross Douthat takes a break from lobbing accusations of corruption and conspiracy at Pope Francis to explain anew his belief that the church cannot change the way it relates to lesbians and gays,… Continue reading
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A Church That Changes: Margaret Farley and the CDF
As many of you have probably heard by now, last week, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) officially notified Mercy Sister and professor emeritus of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School Margaret Farley that her work “cannot… 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
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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