Whether involved with the official organization or not, the unofficial “holiday” serves as a day to turn gratitude into local giving. The feeling of gratitude is known to increase charitable giving. Strengthening community ties brings us one step toward the type of world that can erode a colonial mindset. Read more
We are hurtling toward the 2024 election, and the lead-up has been unhinged at best. Regardless of what I think of Harris, Biden’s stepping aside has made space for a candidate who is both mentally competent and charismatic. With a new candidate comes a new strategy, and the Democrats have an easy narrative laid before them, one they have taken up: prosecutor Harris versus felon Trump. Harris has supercharged one of the go-to talking points of this election, Trump’s criminal history. But there is much more packed into this easy soundbite than Trump’s misdeeds, with implications that must be examined. Read more
The Apocalypse of John is a particularly vivid and often horrifying account of an eschatological vision. The author reports the visions as an account of his experience in exile on the island of Patmos. The account might be described as “psychedelic”, with the iconography of a “bad trip”. It has become a fun theory to attribute the texts to a similar experience. But is it any more than an interesting theory? Read more
As the destruction of Palestine and its people continues to run rampant, understanding ecocide and its operation in colonialism becomes ever more prescient. Two staple plants of Palestinian culture have been targeted by the Zionist regime for decades, eroding Palestinian culture and Palestinians’ economic health and autonomy. Destruction of orchards kept for thousands of years is part of a Zionist mission to eliminate evidence of Palestinian life and tending to the land in the area to support a narrative that the land was previously uninhabited, that existing peoples were simply transient, and that the establishment of a Jewish state in the area is a just reclamation of untended land. Read more
Pride is the greatest sin, or so we are told. It is one of the seven deadly sins, the straight path to hell. Can we slip ourselves from the loud self and mutual love in the concept of our pride, and that which we should avoid, that which sends us away from God and to sin? Read more
As a Christopagan in the Catholic tradition (or a Christopagan by being Catholic, at least according to some), the relationship between saints and gods Read more
The time for resolutions has come around again, but do the goals you are setting align with your true values? This year, take time to examine your Read more
It is a time of reflection and anticipation pointed toward the star above Bethlehem. This year the eruption of violence against the people of Palestine Read more
The KJV can tell us a lot about translating ancient texts and what it means for us readers of the translation. Read more
If you’ve been to Catholic mass during Advent, you’ve likely noticed the advent wreath, which looks like any Christmas wreath laid flat with four Read more
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