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Monthly Archives: July 2013
NFP Points to Ponder
So, apparently this past week was Natural Family Planning Awareness Week. Over at Catholic Moral Theology, Beth Haile has posted about some misconceptions that she says people have about NFP, and Jana Bennett has engaged with contraception and feminisms, adapted … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Feminist theology, Moral theology
Tagged clericalization, contraception, NFP, perfect society, priestly celibacy, sexual morality
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Doubt in the Academy, the Seminary, and the Pews
Australian Dr. Val Webb has posted the lecture she recently gave on a book tour in the UK about her updated book, In Defense of Doubt. This particular bit leapt out at me (emphases mine): ‘Why weren’t we told?’ became … Continue reading
Trayvon Martin verdict: link roundup
and some related material. – Crystal St. Marie Lewis On the Zimmerman verdict and traditional eschatology – EmancipationConversation on George Zimmerman is a Nice Guy – Rooted In Being on How the Personal Becomes Institutional – Native Born On #Trayvon. … Continue reading
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A lesbian and a fundamentalist….
Read this powerful witness from Kimberly Knight, a lesbian progressive Christian laywoman, about her in-person conversation with Billy Humphrey, a straight fundamentalist Christian minister: A lesbian and a fundamentalist walk into a bar. Substantive conversations across such an ecclesial and … Continue reading
Posted in Ecumenism, Scripture
Tagged bible, dialogue, fundamentalism, love, marriage equality, progressive christianity, truth
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The End of Absolute Sexual Morality? No.
Kyle Cupp at Vox Nova writes, in The End of Absolute Sexual Morality, that Christian moral reasoning is typically absolutist–i.e., based on absolute principles–and its approach to sexual moral norms is no exception. Embracing homosexuality as a valid sexual expression … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Feminist theology, Moral theology
Tagged farley, marriage, marriage equality, natural law, sexual morality, sexuality, vatican 2
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“All Shall Be Well” at Disoriented. Reoriented.
Paul over at Disoriented, Reoriented is starting a great new series blogging through a book on universalism: “All Shall Be Well”: Universal Salvation Through History. As the subtitle indicates, universalism is the belief that everyone goes to heaven, no one … Continue reading
Brad Rothrock on Practice, Power, and Neutrality
Brad Rothrock certainly has some finely crafted phrases in his latest response to the discussion sparked by America’s policy on labeling Catholics. I particularly admired this discussion (emphasis mine) involving the practice of the faith: Is faith belief that then … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Ecclesiology, Feminist theology
Tagged faith, labels, neutrality, power, practice
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Why Seventy[-two]?
Reflections on the Roman Catholic lectionary for 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cycle C The gospel as I heard it proclaimed states 72 disciples. The NABre renders the number “seventy [-two]”, with a footnote stating that important representatives of the … Continue reading
Posted in Lectionary reflection
Tagged exclusion, hospitality, inclusion, Is 66, Lk 10, mimetic, OT14C
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Thesis: Re-scoped, Re-oriented
For various reasons, partly to do with the impact of real life on my intended schedule, and partly to do with how my initial research has reshaped my interests, I’ve recently reworked my thesis project into something a bit less … Continue reading
Francis on Isaiah 7:9 in Greek and Hebrew
I thought my readers might be interested in this excerpt from Pope Francis’ first encyclical letter, Lumen Fidei (English title On Faith), released yesterday. This is paragraph 23, the first paragraph of chapter 2. (I’ve added some paragraph breaks for … Continue reading
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