…The vinegrower helps the vine thrive as much as it can by pruning away the literal dead weight. The vine helps the vinegrower by producing as much fruit as it…
…philosophical, ethical, historical, and social-scientific (and of course economic and theological) angles. For more information, see the the full Economic Theology Call for Papers (deadline 3/31). Immediately following, on May…
On Wednesday, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles posted a series of tweets reminding Christians to remain “awake” during the season of Advent, alert to the impending coming of Jesus…
…Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who are being protected by the power of God through…
…Tragedies are not merely unanticipated incidents with terrible consequences, as when we use the word, for example, to describe the assassination of a president or a deadly car accident. Tragedies…
…nation out of its crisis. Wrapped up in a cloud of sentiment, few paused to ask another set of questions. Namely: How does this politician’s grief for his dead son…
…Karimov as well, just because all his opposition is either dead or in prison. And the media too – just the other day our pictures were splashed across Vogue, and…
…the men in her mother’s new husband’s village only allowed the brother to accompany her because of his gender. Girls were considered deadweight. Guiying, now orphaned, was frequently denied adequate…
…they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead. The story of the “transfiguration” begins with a time stamp—it occurs six days after Jesus makes…
…are laughing, and are highly regarded by the world’s standards to turn back to the way of the Lord, for it is only through becoming dead to the world that…
…a vision of the humanum – the human community fully flourishing. In Christian theology, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, which we celebrate in a few weeks, is…
…reductionism about nature that has facilitated our deadly situation today (FHS 103). For Metz, the idea of nature can communicate the suffering of history: as a concept that stands in…