Healing Our Divides: Why This Matters
In large part, that’s why we become so persistently polarized, and that’s why our divisions can intensify to the point of mutual fear, hatred, and hellish violence.
‘Go and Do Likewise’: Pursuing the Biblical Call to Justice
Who would your ‘Samaritan’ be today? A politician? A troll on Twitter? A violent terrorist? A police officer? An anarchist? Someone with a different sexual orientation?
Maewyn Succat and the Radical Forgiveness of Saint Patrick
Are you angry? Are you resentful and bitter over the past? Are there those whom you cannot or will not forgive? Maewyn Succat would tell us that with God's help, there is a Saint Patrick within, waiting to be released.
When Religion Becomes Idolatry
Yes, I am talking about white supremacy, but the kind comfortably ensconced in a leather chair smoking a cigar. I am talking about xenophobia, but the kind safely domesticated behind a white picket fence. I am talking about homophobia, the kind that scapegoats before an audience of well-dressed parishioners.
There Is No ‘Other’
Our options in life were never equal, never fair, and never related to merit or work ethic.
Cowboys and Indians: Dismantling the Western, Settler-Colonial Worldview (PART II)
God’s purpose was never for Europeans to rule over Indigenous peoples nor to subjugate our lands.
Hate Crime or Not, We Belong to Each Other
It is not enough for us to remember the sacred humanity within each person — we must actively behave in a way that shows it.
Reversing Exclusion of the Other
BY: MICHAEL KIMPAN -- A thinking individual must wonder :: at what point did we begin to move backwards and away from the ‘come as you are culture’ which Jesus...
Are We Better Than Them?
BY: KERRY DIXON -- I can tell this story because I can’t imagine myself ever thinking such thoughts, let alone saying them out...
Take A Walk on 9/11
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, many of us are wondering how best to honor the many victims of that tragedy and its aftermath.
Here in Cincinnati, my wife Marty’s answer is inviting some of ou...