Hildegard of Bingen: Theology Spoken, Seen, and Heard
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was born as the tenth child of an honorable family in a town to the northwest of Worms. She was handed over to the church...
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Romantic Idolatry: A Call for an Imagination for Singleness
The Church has a relationship problem. Sometime during my undergraduate years, studying Medieval philosophers who were perhaps a bit too much influenced by...
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Sex and the Church – and Diarmaid MacCulloch
“I think religion has got everything appallingly wrong and it has been terrible for us in sexual terms” declared Diarmaid MacCulloch in an interview about his...
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The Body at Work
A pounding headache during the Easter Vigil, brought on by dehydration. Coming in late at night, cold and wet from a day out in rain and hail. A splatter of dog feces...
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Why I Am Not a (Good) Christian
[T]hough I have done it very imperfectly, yet I have found advantages by it. -Brother Lawrence[1] I am not a very good Christian. I struggle with it. I am easily...
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Resurrection and Injustice
A Book Review It all lies in the fact that men think there are circumstances in which one may deal with human beings without love; and there are no such circumstances....
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