HYPERFOCUS ON ABORTION ISSUE OBSCURES CALL OF COMMON GOOD
This hyper focus, paired with the political manipulation of the issue, draws a false line in the sand and creates a litmus test for the role of people of faith in the public square that obscures the multiple ways in which we participate in a culture of death.
POPE FRANCIS WANTS CATHOLICS TO DARE TO DREAM OF A BETTER WAY OF DOING POLITICS
Catholic Christians would do well to revisit his critique of false realism and false nostalgia, and his call for the church to foster a political attitude of faithful and daring dreaming.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH EVIL?
When the systems of “the world” are able to operate as denied and disguised evil, they soon become the “spirits in the air” that do immense damage but are invisible and unaccountable.
THE CORRUPTION OF THE WORD
The word has a performative quality. But so does the lie... We have ample evidence of the damage done by organized, systematic lying in our politics. The impact of it in the Church remains to be seen.
THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL: DANGEROUS AND DIFFERENT
This type of Christianity places the well-being of the believer at the center of prayer, and turns God the Creator into someone who makes the thoughts and desires of believers come true.
