vocation

  • Restoration: Women, the Diaconate and My 3-year Prayer

    For three years I’ve been sowing prayers. Spreading the desire of my heart, grafting a hope for the church into other people’s prayer lives. It’s a prayer for women to be seen on altars throughout the world – sharing of… Continue reading

    Restoration: Women, the Diaconate and My 3-year Prayer
  • Hares, not Hedgehogs: The Vocation of the Theologian

    A note: The following post is part of an inter-blog series on “the vocation of the theologian,” sponsored by Emerging Theologians in connection with this weekend’s meeting of the College Theology Society. Emerging Theologians is an international network of early-career… Continue reading

  • A Curse and Affliction Upon the Church? On Vitriol and Theologians

    Some of our readers may have seen that John Allen, writing for the National Catholic Reporter, recently summarized a talk Thomas Weinandy OFM Cap (executive director of the US Conference of Catholic Bishop’s doctrine committee) gave in May to the Academy of… Continue reading

  • WIT and WIM

    I recently spent a week visiting two very dear friends from my master’s program and their daughter (my goddaughter). Between work schedules, travels along the coast, and the daily chaos of life with a toddler, the three of us managed… Continue reading