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March 14, 2014

Obamacare and Religious Freedom: What Are Catholic Colleges Fighting For?

The current debate about Obamacare and religious freedom assumes institutions endowed with certain inalienable rights. Today, the corporate is personal: we count not just corporations but institutions as people. At times, the rights of corporate bodies, whether incorporated or ecclesial,… Continue reading
December 15, 2011

Homosexuality Is Not Like Alcoholism

Apparently, the most popular way to argue against homosexuality these days is to compare it to alcoholism. Seriously. I have been hearing this a lot lately. A representative version of this argument goes something like this: “just as we wouldn’t… Continue reading
January 31, 2011

Courage and the Church

It is heartbreaking to hear misogynist, homophobic, racist coming from the same white man every Sunday at church, when I can look around and see that there are so many other important voices that should be heard belonging to the… Continue reading
November 18, 2010

We Are Still Gentiles: Another Look at Hauerwas and Pinches’ “Christians Among the Virtues”

While I love reading Hauerwas’ (the man who wants Protestants to be more Catholic and Catholics to be more like Mennonites) critique of American Christians idolatrous devotion to the nation-state and its war machine, there are a few things about… Continue reading