Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Part 1: Growing Up Racist and Misogynist and Catholic
Editor’s Note: This first of a four-part blog post is contributed by my friend John Slattery, presently doing his doctoral studies in …
Images That Return Our Love
Readers of Hope Sings, So Beautiful and regular visitors to this website may recognize in this image the distinct iconography of William …
Top 5 Reasons to Love “Hope Sings, So Beautiful” in Its First Year
Just over a year ago, Hope Sings, So Beautiful was published by Liturgical Press, and the website you are now reading was …
On Forming a New Kind of Humanity: Adolfo Nicolás, SJ
Religion is less a code of doctrines and moral teachings than it is a sensitivity to the “dimensions of transcendence that underlie …
Making the World Go ‘Round with Grace
Pressed for time, I decided to use the narrow Ou Kaapse Weg over the mountains to Cape Town. Although I was pushing …
Like Lightning from Heaven
“In our world today there are some prophets like John the baptizer, who are spectacular. They prepare our hearts to see Jesus. …
Theotokos: The Christ Taking Birth Forever
Like Mary, says St. John of the Cross, “each of us is the midwife of God, each of us.” What would it …
A New Center (Where the Gospel Requires Us to Be)
In Calcutta just weeks before his death, Thomas Merton famously described the monk, and thus himself, as a “very strange kind of …
“I Went to the Woods”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if …
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 …
