Adapted from Chapter 7, “Excuses”
For years, Bible scholars have danced around the matter by saying slavery in Rome was far different from slavery in...
The summer I turned nineteen, I felt a need to reckon with someone who had both harmed me deeply and done much good in my life. I decided to set new b...
Dorothy Day's article, "Suicide or Sacrifice", was previously published by The Catholic Worker on November 1, 1965 and is reprinted with permission.
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The Emperor Constantine was born on February 27 in the year 272 AD. There are parts of the Church that honor him as a saint... so this feels like a go...
For love of the world God does foolish things is my theme for Lent this year. It came from the fact that Ash Wednesday coincided with Valentine’s Day ...
On September 12, 2001, I had an encounter with police that could have ended far worse than it did. The tension was high that day. Terrorists had attac...
Excerpt by Coté Soerens from Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition (Eerdmans Publishing, January 2024), Mark Elsdon...
In this piece I reflect on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and conflicting notions of Christian Theology that have ...