Perspectives
Articles, essays, and reflections from progressive Catholic voices.
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Lenten February
Somewhere in the middle of February, Lent began. I don't know when, exactly; I'd have to look it up. Ash Wednesday passed me by barely noticed; I felt like Lent had already begun.
"How God loves us through our bad theology": A guest post
I was raised with antiquated theology in a pre-Vatican II cult.
Cookie Monster and the limits of the theological enterprise
These Phylosophical Dictes and Sayenges of Cookie Monster made me consider the noted eleventh-century theologian Anselm of Canterbury. And to get to him, I had to go through Garry Wills.
The Spirit of Non-Violence, delfín style
Soulforce is about solidarity not imposition, it is not replacing one oppressive dominant narrative with another…it is about being with people and together finding ways to transform community into spaces where all are welcome and where all coexist, across and because and with our differences.
Changing of the guard in Chicago
I am a progressive Catholic who writes and works within a movement that is leery of hierarchy. So I have to be suspicious of any talk about “grace of office,” and I am. But as a Catholic who is at home with messy paradox, and who participates in the historic Catholic imagination, I still maintain a stable of traditional sacred persons. The departing Chicago archbishop is one of them.
"We were just sitting there talking": the Guerrilla Communion saga continues
We get to a point where we must define what “we are the church” means operationally. It becomes insufficient to simply go around reassuring each other: “We are the church.” Church must become a verb.
Lent 20/30: Lucy Mull
Death sits heavy in the air today, Palm Sunday, with the Passion narrative and Jesus' conscience-shattering crucifixion.