Here’s my latest over at The Catholic Weekly: So recently retired Episcopalian cleric John Shelby Spong was in the news offering the absolutely predictable opinion that Hell was “invented by the Church to control people with fear“. This is, after all, the guy who says that Paul was a repressed homosexual, that Mary was a victim of rape, and that the Resurrection is a myth. Why the man ever bothered being a bishop I will never know, though I suppose... Read more
A Journal of Spiritual Revolution is now available at Amazon: “Our intention is not altogether modest: the regeneration of Christian art and culture.”—Michael Martin Why should Christians read Meister Eckhart, Simone Weil, and William Blake? How do the mystic and the artist invite us to encounter the mystery of Christ’s being in the world? What are the links between our work to bring the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven; the work of the artist; and the remaking... Read more
are figuring out ways to freshen up their message and make it a bit tonier for people who prefer their white supremacy with Splenda rather than heroin. Joshua Cohen rolls up his sleeves and wades like Humphrey Bogart into the swamp in The African Queen to sort out the different kinds of leeches who populate this noisome and putrid underworld now dancing in broad daylight with the ear of our White Supremacist-in-Chief: In just one year, the alt right has gone... Read more
We remember that Jesus and our Lady reject racism: Read more
Here are some clouds the size of a man’s hand pointing the way forward for the postmodern Left and Right to come to happy concord in the oppression of the weak by the strong. In no particular order: Racist judge tells inmates they can cut their sentences if they will only cut their vas deferens Nazi sympathizer Sebastian Gorka, who is welcome at the White House of our White Supremacist-in-Chief is treated with respect and does not have his mike... Read more
Here is a work of mercy for some wonderful people: The school age children in Kampala, Uganda are great. Every one of them. They are trim, happy, physically fit, very well-adjusted, and by simply looking in their eyes in photos, intelligence can be seen as is true with this photo. Each term we do a fundraiser for those children who need a little financial help in order to attend school. The public schools are tuition-free, but supplies, among other things... Read more
in a veritable plethora of digital forms. These include: Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072XR2KYJ Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/mercy-works iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/id1250105757 And, of course, you can still order dead tree version right from me, signed and everything, just by clicking on the pretty cover: Read more
Iraqi Christians are racing against time If they don’t soon reclaim their homes on the Nineveh Plains, Christianity in Iraq will be at grave risk By Joop Koopman Before ISIS swept across the Nineveh Plains in the summer of 2014, driving more than 100,000 Christians into exile in Kurdistan, some 5,000 Syriac-Catholic families made their homes on ancient ancestral land in the town of Quaraqosh. More than half of those families have school-age children, and international agencies have repaired the... Read more
regarding Charlottesville: Racism is a poison of the soul. It’s the ugly, original sin of our country, an illness that has never fully healed. Blending it with the Nazi salute, the relic of a regime that murdered millions, compounds the obscenity. Thus the wave of public anger about white nationalist events in Charlottesville this weekend is well warranted. We especially need to pray for those injured in the violence. But we need more than pious public statements. If our anger... Read more
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