On Wednesday, March 24th, communities all around the world commemorated the 30 year anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero. Instead of spending time talking about who Romero was and why his life was significant (if you are wondering, at the bottom of this post there are a number of links to give [...]
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YOUR HOLINESS, LET’S MAKE A DEAL
Your Holiness, I hope this letter somehow reaches you. I think it might help you find a way out of the mess you are in. I’m referring to the accusations being made that you allowed a priest, Fr. Peter Hullermann, who had been identified as a pedophile in the diocese of Essen back in 1980, [...]
For the Vatican: “Poor Me” = Poor Response
A major part of the Vatican response to investigations into sexual abuse of minors by priests in Germany and more specifically into a sacerdotal abuser in the Munich archdiocese when Pope Benedict XVI was Archbishop Ratzinger, in charge of that diocese, has been “poor me.” The NEW YORK TIMES titled its article of March 13 [...]
Passion Allergy?
I came across a statement in Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith, and Revolution (highly recommended!) that rang true to my experience here at Union Theological Seminary: “Some postmodernists suspect that all certainty is authoritarian. They are nervous of people who sound passionately committed to what they say.” (p. 136) What Eagleton is saying applies, I think, [...]
Predicando en Calzoncillos
“Predicando en Calzoncillos” is a phrase my grandmother used which, literally translated, means “Preaching in Underwear.” My grandmother used this phrase to refer to the hypocrisy of preachers who did not practice what they preached. Our country, that I love, unfortunately falls into this category of hypocrisy. Although I believe that for the cause of [...]
Guest Writer, Ashley Harness: JC of the LGBTQ
Was Jesus of Nazareth queer? Elton John says, goodbye yellow brick road; hello, gay Jesus. Our friend and peer Ashley Harnass is giddy about it: I have always loved Elton John for his shoes (they recently inspired a purple platform heel purchase). But now I love him for his theology too. He just told the [...]
Re: Good Intentions and the Kidnapping of Haitian Children!
Dr. Cruz, I appreciate the concerns and questions you raise in trying to understand what these missionaries were thinking when they took these 33 children and tried to cross the Haitian/Dominican border. I too really have been trying to wrap my head around what would drive a person or group of people to think that [...]
Good intentions and the kidnapping of Haitian Children!
Perhaps I am a bit too sensitive, being the father of three wonderful daughters, to opine about these issues regarding the possible kidnapping of Haitian children. While I may have more questions than commentary, let me begin by clearly stating one of my views concerning this story of 10 Baptist individuals from Idaho who allegedly [...]
Holiday break
Yes, even irrepressible and intrepid bloggers get a holiday. So we figured we’d follow their lead. The Wheat and The Chaff will return in the new year. Happy Holidays, all!
Re: Fort Hood
We all have a polarity within us; magnets, so to speak, that pull on our moral compass. It’s in cases like Hasan’s, where the needle in the compass snaps, that we begin sifting through the deluge of questions of why his compass no longer pointed north and led him toward such destruction. It’s been just [...]
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