by Ron Rolheiser | Apr 10, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The earth was dark twice. Once at the original creation before God first created light. But later there was an even deeper darkness, on Good Friday, between the sixth and ninth hour, when we were crucifying God, and as Jesus dying on the cross cried out “My God, my...
by Mitch Randall | Apr 6, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Jesse L. Jackson, speaking to the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, said: “Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high; stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. … Keep hope alive. Keep hope...
by Scott Stearman | Apr 6, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Do you recall the early days of 2020? I expect you do. We began the year hearing about this scary virus that was becoming lethal in China. “Over there” where people lived so close, and likely had bad hygiene (we said). We moved into February reading about the virus...
by Brenda McWilliams | Apr 6, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I was hiking solo, plodding along the trail and occasionally, carefully, picking my way through the gnarly roots poised at a moment’s notice to grab a toe or entrap a heel and take me to the ground. It was quiet. No chatter with hiking friends nor playlist pulsing...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 5, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The Christmas narratives in the Bible are unique, but not conflicted like the resurrection narratives. Yes, we typically conflate the timeline by placing the Matthean magi who arrived from somewhere in the distant darkness bearing gifts alongside the Lukan shepherds...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Apr 5, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
What do you do when the hymns we sing reinforce a theology which is, and continues to be, detrimental to the marginalized, those who liberationist theologian Jon Sobrino called “the Crucified People”? “Would you be free from the burden of sin? There’s power in the...
