by Alex Lockridge | Mar 12, 2019 | Opinion
A Baptist and a Catholic sit down for coffee. The Catholic says, “We need to save our planet.” The Baptist says, “We will serve the potluck.” OK, so that’s not exactly what happened, but it’s close. Recently, an ecumenical gathering in the name of creation care was...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 4, 2019 | News
Catholics and Baptists hold the most seats among Christian adherents in the 116th U.S. Congress, according to Pew Research Center data released on Jan. 3. It is billed as one of, if not the most diverse Congress in U.S. history. The Associated Press reports, “The new...
by Steven R. Harmon | Jan 3, 2019 | Opinion
What’s an ecumenical dialogue like? For those who have some experience in higher education, it’s pretty much like a departmental faculty meeting that lasts most of the day, five days in a row – except that it’s infinitely more interesting (to me, at least) and of...
by Steven R. Harmon | Jan 2, 2019 | Opinion
Pope Francis characterized the act of preaching as a rejoining of a conversation that has already been going on for a long time in his 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (“On the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World”). “The homily takes up once more...
by Corey Fields | Sep 13, 2018 | Opinion
It has been another devastating month for those who love the church. An investigative grand jury in Pennsylvania unanimously issued an 884-page report detailing more widespread sexual abuse within the Catholic Church and the intentional, systematic cover-up of that...
