This Lent Find Your Calling: NO to the Religious justifications of War & Ecocide
BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- Lent starts with us following Christ into the desert to find our calling in Christ’s. To enter into what Thomas Merton...
Should We Give Up God For Lent?
BY: MICAH BALES -- Some people give up chocolate, coffee or movies for Lent, but Peter Rollins has a slightly more radical proposal...
When Christ Returns…Will He Find Faith?
BY: MORF MORFORD -- Jesus knows that when he returns he will find religion, he knows he will find legalism; he knows he will find the...
Is the Kingdom of God Built of Vegetables?
BY: JEREMY JOHN -- Vegetables. Who could have imagined an economy in which gentle vegetables were subversive?
Remembering Is the First Act of Love: War, Peace and Memorial Day
When I was a kid I'd go to mass on Sundays and hope that this week's eucharistic hymn would be my favorite:
We remember how you loved us to your death
And still we celebrate, for you are with us here.
Our shar...
Practicing Resurrection: Turning Vacant Lots Into Gardens in Philadelphia
"What's that?" one of the kids asked, with big gleaming eyes.
"That's a firefly" I said, with a smile, realizing it was his first firefly-sighting.
"Why does it glow like that?"
I thought for a minute. "...
True Meaning of Easter Lies in its Beauty, Not its Violence
Surely the truest way to find the God of Easter is not through contorted extractions of retribution and atonement.
The Love in Resurrection
At Calvary, we see what the power of Satan can do. We observe the demonic nature of political and religious power infused by evil. The Roman governor and the Hebrew king, on the one hand, and the priests a...
The Easter Surprise: Celebrating the first day of a new kind of week
When you are small, the wonder of an Easter egg hunt is exiting. But as you grow older, the awe of the experience begins to fade. I remember a particular Easter when I had to make a choice: Would I listen t...
Jesus, the Ham of God
How did we go from the Passover Lamb to the Easter Ham?
It’s a complicated, not very pretty story, central to modern religious identity and, for those reasons, tucked away from public view.
A truly “new” ...