by Craig Nash | Nov 8, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
A conversation about the concept of “food as medicine” at the 2023 South by Southwest Future of Food event featured experts in health and food security, including a representative for the corporate social responsibility arm of a major U.S. grocery retailer. During the...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 20, 2021 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
It has taken decades for me to fully recognize and come to terms with a significant failure, especially in my earlier ministry life, that needs to be confessed. This awareness has come into clearer focus recently, when examining some of the fruit it has produced....
by Mary Elizabeth Hanchey | Apr 21, 2020 | Opinion
Being the church when the world is crumbling requires providing help taking care of bodies – and hearts. The Gospels demonstrate over and over again that Jesus was concerned with care of bodies. Jesus was concerned with healing to bodies. He healed bodies that could...
by Ron Rolheiser | Dec 17, 2019 | Opinion
We’re all familiar, I suspect, with the difference between justice and charity. Charity is giving away some of your time, energy, resources and person so as to help others in need. And that’s an admirable virtue, the sign of a good heart. Justice, on the other hand,...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jul 18, 2017 | Opinion
Charity is about being good-hearted, but justice is about something more. Individual sympathy is good and virtuous, but it doesn’t necessarily change the social, economic and political structures that unfairly victimize some people and unduly privilege others....
