Tag: Opinion pieces

Professor Richard T. Hughes of Messiah College reflects on what the Bible has to say about caring for the stranger.

Jesus’ answer was clear, albeit threatening. Love me first, he said. Love your God before all others. Love your neighbor before yourself. Don’t baptize your desired way of life and call it holy . . .

What would happen if you planned an elaborate bus tour through 20 cities over the summer in an effort to stop the legalization of gay marriage, and no one showed up?

Former BP executive John Browne describes how he was outed and how this became a blessing.

Rowan Williams cannot speak truth to power when he has so clearly capitulated to it himself

I don’t remember when the doilies disappeared, but by the time I was a teenager they were gone, and females went bare-headed in God’s house. Somehow the church survived.

Sin is not just lifting oneself up too high (as in the case of Satan, the rebellious angels, or Adam and Eve), it is also failing to lift oneself up high enough. Many LGBT people have been taught to hide in the shadows and that God hates us. Is it any wonder, then, that so many LGBT people suffer from a toxic degree of self-hate and shame?

Diana Butler Bass says that without a living memory of the Church’s history, we risk falling into a kind of “spiritual alzheimers” that will impede our ability to function in the present.

The decision to cancel the cardinal’s participation came after a number of local priests said they would not attend the service. On Tuesday, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called on Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl to stop the cardinal from celebrating the Mass, saying it would send the wrong message.