When I chose to focus my graduate thesis on penance in the early Church, I believed that I was giving a lot of attention to wholly impractical topic (for such topics graduate study is made!), but I find myself coming back to one of the key ideas repeatedly as I observe news and society. TheContinue reading >>
On guns, hatred, race and fear in the aftermath of Charleston
I was abroad when Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson last summer. I was way off the grid in Botswana. When we finally got back to Lusaka and turned on CNN International protests were in full force and we couldn’t believe our eyes. Perhaps it was missing the initial aftermath, perhaps it was being abroad,Continue reading >>