MAP: “Sunday Without Women” (Sept. 26) Map of Catholic Women’s Boycott

August 19, 2010

Are you joining the “Sunday Without Women” on September 26? If you want to be added to the world-wide map, then leave me a comment below with the name and address of the Catholic Church you will not be attending. (Or, if you are google-map savvy, do it yourself here.)
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Irish Woman Calls on Catholics to Boycott Mass on Sept. 26 For Greater Inclusion of Women

August 19, 2010

Jennifer Sleeman, an 80-year-old Catholic convert from Clonakilty in Cork, Ireland, is calling on Catholic women to “join your sisters on Sunday, September 26th. On that one day, boycott Mass. Stay at home and pray for change. We are the majority. We may have been protesting individually but unremarked on, but together we have strength [...]

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Joan Chittister: ‘Mercy Is What God Does for Us’

August 17, 2010

Sr. Joan Chittister and the folks at Benetvision have just released a new book on forgiveness. As we seem to live in a culture that promotes “mercilessness,” rather than a “quality of mercy [that] is not strained” (as Shakespeare put it), this book is a good one to use with small groups and for summer [...]

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Anglican Bishop Mark Ryland: ‘Workaholism is Not a Christian Virtue’

August 16, 2010

The Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury, UK, has warned against growing workaholism, and has commended relaxation and hospitality instead. In his regular diocesan update, Bishop Mark Ryland lays out the necessity for sabbath, rest, and renewal.
By way of information: The U.S. does not have “national holidays” like they do in the European Union – in [...]

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Clarification of Thought: New Gay Marriage Ruling in California

August 6, 2010

This week, in the nation’s first federal trial on same-sex marriage, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that California’s Proposition 8 that banned same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection (Judge Strikes California’s Ban on Same-Sex Marriage, Proposition 8).
Judge Walker’s ruling is very important for further study. [...]

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Urban Theology: Neighborhood as Sacred Text

August 2, 2010

“Rose Marie Berger combines her gifts as a poet and storyteller with an incisive critique of the powers of violence and domination present within the imperial city of Washington, D.C. Drawing on her powerful poetic sensibilities she weaves together stories of Washington, D.C., as a divided capital and the biblical critique of cities as centers [...]

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On the Outskirts of the Enlightenment: Prophets, Power, and Post-Modernism

August 1, 2010

Why is this issue of the end of modernism and the beginning of post-modernism of interest to Christians?  I’m working my way through an academic paper by Jesuit priest Hugues Deletraz on Post-Modernism Opens New Perspectives for Evangelization (see earlier post ‘Modernism has reached its limits‘) to understand what are the marks of this shift [...]

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Hugues Deletraz: ‘Modernism Has Reached Its Limits’

July 29, 2010

I’m working my way through an academic paper by Jesuit priest Hugues Deletraz on Post-Modernism Opens New Perspectives for Evangelization. Deletraz spent many years serving in Tanzania and was director of the Social Justice Secretariat for the Jesuits in Rome.
I think I’ll post a few random excerpts as I grapple with the material. Here’s one [...]

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Christian Peacemaker Art Gish Dies at 70

July 29, 2010

As news spreads of the tragic death of Art Gish, world-renowned Christian peacemaker, in a farming accident near Athens, Ohio, more memories and reflections are pouring in. (See yesterday’s post for more.)
“He has been an inspiration to me for more than 36 years.”–Dale in Melbourne, Australia
“Have spent hours, days with him and I have never [...]

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World-Renowned Peacemaker, Art Gish, Dies in Tractor Accident

July 28, 2010

Art and Peggy Gish (above) are career peace, civil rights and human rights activists who embody the motto of their primary affiliation, Christian Peacemaker Teams: “Getting in the way.”
Art died this morning in a tractor accident on the organic farm where he and Peggy live near Athens, Ohio. He was 70.  (See Athens County peace [...]

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