Happy Easter! Accept the frailty of your humanity and the hushed tones of the gospel reading. Easter was not, and should not be, a victory parade. @DailyTheodailytheology.org/2017/04/15…
I'm featured at @ChurchLifeND today, with a historical reflection on "The Rise and Fall of Father Zahm" in which I talk about evolution, science, and the late 19th century Catholic Church. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/art…
In a new essay today, scholar and activist Eric Martin asks "will the church become a community that opposes and confronts the rise of fascism?" dailytheology.org/2021/01/15…
Graduate students in theology or religious studies: submit an essay to the College Theology Society’s Susan G. Perry Award for Best Graduate Student Essay. (CTS membership not required.) Info: collegetheology.org/Publicat…
"It is heartening that Christian white allies strongly desire to be antiracist. But will they go beyond antiracism, to a place where other people’s sovereign political and economic activity bids them to go?" -Rufus Burnett and Steven Battin on #antiracismdailytheology.org/2020/10/30…
Grateful to Kathleen Bellow for her words @DailyTheo: "For all its good and faithful service, the US institutional Church consistently stands in solidarity with the ignorance of American anti-Blackness rather than the wisdom of the Christian gospels." dailytheology.org/2020/10/29…
"The Catholic Church officially planted itself in the U.S. national culture that, according to any version of history with integrity, was founded on and is dominated by the heresy of white supremacy." Kathleen Dorsey-Bellow, Director of ICBS @XULA1925dailytheology.org/2020/10/29…
I appreciated working with @billymenorsj on this piece on Jesuit racism and its pervasive mutations from the era of enslavement to the present.
I hope it will bring awareness to the work we need to do. Thanks @JohnSlatteryPhD for organizing these discussions on white supremacy.
To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history, especially in our churches & schools, where too often racism was seen as part of a divine order instead of a diabolical violation of inherent, equal human dignity and rights. Thanks to @CyberspaceClio and @billymenorsj
"Jesuits believed enslaved people were so easily led into the faith that they could assign novices to them as a way to practice their training in catechesis...while others took on religious education to them as a hobby.” @CyberspaceClio @billymenorsj dailytheology.org/2020/10/28…
"Jesuits believed enslaved people were so easily led into the faith that they could assign novices to them as a way to practice their training in catechesis...while others took on religious education to them as a hobby.” @CyberspaceClio @billymenorsj dailytheology.org/2020/10/28…