Mourning: Hope in Resistance in Advent
Is there possibly too much singing and not enough crying out in our Christian spirituality? – Johann Baptist Metz [1] — It …
Posts by ARobertson:
A Lover’s Prayer
Self-reflection is a built-in element of travel. It stirs within the traveler each time she is asked why she travels. “What is …
Arcade Fire, Haiti, and Social Change Through Art
I’m not trying to tell other people’s stories. We’re just trying to allow an experience to change you. – Win Butler, Arcade …
Renouncing the Privilege of Distance: Frans van der Lugt, SJ
What new is there to say about another dead priest? Another priest taken from his home, shot dead on the sacred altar …
Gendering Exclusion in El Salvador
What if our blindness toward other people also produces a tragic blindness toward God, the Other? – Joerg Rieger, God and the …
Water, Hypocrisy, and Hope in West Virginia
The truth of Appalachia is judgment upon us all.1 Penned in 1995, the pastoral letter At Home in the Web of Life …
We Go Walking Toward Peace
This year marked my fifth trip to Columbus, GA as a participant in the annual November vigil to close the School of …
Grassroots Remembering and Narrative Building in El Salvador
When Jean-François Lyotard wrote The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, he indicated that a primary distinguishing characteristic of postmodernity has been …
Undocumented: Between Silence and Speech (Part II)
In a recent blog post, “Legs That Breathe Snake Venom: On Silence and Speech,” I reflected on the experience of driving through …
What About My People?
We all have a story. We all have collective memories that we draw upon as a community every day, memories of shared …
