Welcome to Walmart (Bam! Bam! Bam! You’re Dead)
Over at Commonweal.org, Fordham University professor Michael Peppard reflects with pointed honesty about how the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, …
Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Final Part: Banging on the Door
Editor’s Note: This four-part blog series is being co-published at RACL’s Blog Partner, “Daily Theology.” Before you go on, it may be helpful to …
Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Part 3: Racism, Bigotry, and Theology
Editor’s Note: This four-part blog series is being co-published at RACL’s Blog Partner, “Daily Theology.” Before you go on, it may be helpful to …
Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Part 2: The Act of Knowing
Editor’s Note: This four-part blog series is contributed by John Slattery, and being co-published at Hope Sing’s Blog Partner, “Daily Theology.” Before you …
Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Part 1: Growing Up Racist and Misogynist and Catholic
Editor’s Note: This first of a four-part blog post is contributed by my friend John Slattery, presently doing his doctoral studies in …
Belonging (or Not) in Another Country
When I came back from spending two weeks in Uganda, I didn’t want to talk about it. My friends were surprised. …
Not Forgotten: John Howard Griffin
Many Americans of an older generation will remember reading Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin’s riveting account of his experiment in “becoming …
Until Our Hearts Break
There will be no redemption until our hearts connect to the heart-break of our world. And we can learn from those in …