John the Baptist and the Holiness Movement
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. His narrative begins with the Angel Gabriel making […]
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No Justice, No Peace: Mechthild of Magdeburg and The Long Lineage of Protest Poetry
Poets say the strangest things. I first learned this when I became absolutely preoccupied by Emily Dickinson in the fourth
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Edith Stein’s Courage to Listen
Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) was a philosopher, a martyr, a Jew, a Christian, and a prophet. Born into an observant
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Honoring Grief and Taking Action
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common working men. –Frances Perkins
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Living as a Microphone for God
We know Oscar Romero because of his outspoken liberation theology, but that is not what marked the majority of his ordained life.
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Remembering Martin Luther’s New Way of Thinking
As the story goes, Martin Luther, the German Catholic monk and scholar, nailed his “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy
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Walking the Way of Love with Absalom Jones
Today, we remember Absalom Jones, who was born into a world that didn’t see him deserving of love; a world that didn’t see him or his worth. Absalom Jones was born a slave in Delaware in 1746.
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