Icon of Holy World Evangelist Thomas Merton
Celebrating a New Icon of Thomas Merton by William Hart McNichols Author’s Note: When Fr. Bill sent me this image of his …
Singing the Forgotten Mother Tongue
This semester I’m teaching a new course called “The Black Catholic Experience.” One of my students in the class, Jon, plays jazz …
The Concrete God: Living, Breathing, and Loving
The Pope’s recent interview with America magazine has been haunting my evening thoughts and invading my daily prayer. The following passage I …
Minding the Gap: In Thanksgiving for Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P.
In the Sunday Gospel today, Jesus tells the parable of a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus who lay hungry and …
What We Have Looked Upon and Touched with Our Hands
We are bombarded daily by so many images it’s easy to miss the diamond flashing in the rough. But this one stopped …
“To Boldly Go…”: The Next Generation
Editor’s Note: I am delighted to share another dispatch from Mr. Randy Gamble of Memphis, Tennessee. I especially appreciate Randy’s observations about …
“Like Jacob Wrestling with God”
Since Hope Sings was published, I’ve been privileged to correspond with Mr. Randy Gamble, a veteran of civil rights work and racial …
Why Theology?
“There must be a place, between abstraction and childishness, where one can speak seriously about serious things.” ~ Czeslaw Milosz, Treatise on …
“Live Fully Until We Die” [from Ch. 9]
Arguably no person of recent memory has done more to resist and transform the sad legacy of segregation and racism in the …
