Holy Week is a Good Time to Get Arrested with Jesus
APRIL 10, 2014 | BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- “If ever there was a peaceful protest, this was it.” These are not the words of an activist...
What if the World Doesn't End?
JULY 16, 2013 | BY: YAHOLO HOYT -- The problems we face today are not evidence of our doom, they are opportunities to show Christ to...
Why Google’s “War on Easter” is offensively Christlike
BY: MORGAN GUYTON -- Yesterday was Easter. It was also Cesar Chavez’s birthday. Google decided to put Cesar Chavez’s face on its...
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.