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 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...
by James Gordon | Mar 29, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
What are we to make of the contrast between the one who “was in very nature God” and the one who “became obedient to death – even death on a cross”? Why would “he who did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped” make himself nothing and take the form of a...