Our local parish has a salutary custom of celebrating the progress of catechumens in a much more public way throughout Lent than any parish to which I have previously belonged. Growing up, I remember ...

This essay, an autobiographical narrative reflecting on my awareness of racism and white privilege in my theological journey, has not been easy to write. In the last few years, I have become somewhat ...

My high school world history teacher posed this question to students at the beginning of our unit on medieval Europe. Even at my devout Protestant high school, most of the students answered “no.” ...

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