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The Mystery of Love and the Redemption of Suffering
A Child and His Mother The redemption of suffering and the mystery of love are inseparable. The response to suffering …
Pope Benedict XVI and the Breaking of Patterns
They broke a pattern. For over a century, nearly every man who had been elected successor of St. Peter had …
Perhaps Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Isn’t the Feminist Unicorn You Wanted?
Nipplegate or Janetgate: these are the most commonly used shorthands for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. Significantly, the most …
Breakthroughs in Coding the Diversity of Medieval Liturgical Traditions
The liturgy was a web of numerous and highly orchestrated elements in the Middle Ages. It was a colorful theater …
Slavic Political Theology: Słowacki Between Bakunin and Schmitt
There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, …
The Really Real and the Liturgy
Last year I retired after three decades in the classroom, and that gives plenty of grist for the reflective mill …
Let the Good Times Roll? Gras and the Liturgical Life
I see in Gras much of what I hear in a really good jazz band: a model for the …
Martin Luther King Jr.: Bearing the Cross and Staring Down the Lynching Tree
It is one thing to teach theology (like Niebuhr, Barth, Tillich, and most theologians) in the safe environs of a …
Fra Angelico at the Gates of Hell
Moses and John the Baptist: The Final Exodus As explored in a previous essay on Fra Angelico’s The Harrowing of Hell, …