Should People of Faith Speak Out?
Many people who worry about people of faith speaking out on political and social issues say things like, “They’re trying to cram their religious beliefs down our throats.” I’ve often ...
Are We Failing God’s Tests?
When I was in the seminary studying theology, our Scripture professor, Fr. Ignatius Hunt, on Mondays would choose a student in class – I presume arbitrarily – to answer a ...
Where God Happens
There is an old film, made in 1960, that caused me to be a secret admirer of Hayley Mills, the British child actress whom I thought was about the cutest ...
Trying to Define Love
Years ago in Ireland, the daughter of a cousin of my grandmother had a child out-of-wedlock. I heard this from my brother, a priest, who said the girl’s family took ...
How We View “Church”
An itinerant preacher is in a small house, packed with people who are transfixed listening to his experience of God as loving Father. It contradicts much of what the listeners ...
What Love Requires
Since my college days, I’ve been a fan of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. For those of you not familiar with him, Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who resisted the ...