
Julian on Goodness, Hope and the Future of the Body Politic
To speak of goodness is to speak of hope. That is why Julian grounded her theology in a time of Europe’s most severe pandemic, in
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To speak of goodness is to speak of hope. That is why Julian grounded her theology in a time of Europe’s most severe pandemic, in

This question arose for me on MLK Jr day this week when I heard the new poet laureate of San Francisco speak about his role

For my part, the inaugural festivities of yesterday did not disappoint. I recall many years ago, when I was in my early twenties and JFK

A new administration, committed to competence and caring, with leadership by a president-elect who is very experienced in national government and a vice president-elect who

The time of an inauguration of a new president and vice president is a commencement—a beginning, and with a new beginning there arises hope. Fresh

To speak of wisdom is to demonstrate another direction humanity can move beyond the patriarchal stuckness of raw knowledge alone. Wisdom is what happens when

Clearly Julian is not tiptoeing through the tulips—even as she says: “All will be well, all manner of things will be well.” This is while

Julian of Norwich tells us that in life we “experience a wondrous mixture of well and woe” and that “this mingling of both well and

We have been celebrating the return of doxa or divine light and blessing in this time of Christmas and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. But we don’t

Christians employ a passage from the Book of Wisdom at the Christmas Midnight Mass readings. Recall that rabbi Jesus derives from the Wisdom tradition
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