Monthly Archives: March 2013

BLOG. 3/28/13: THE SUPREME COURT, THE CHURCH, AND HUMAN SEXUALITY For the past couple of weeks the news media have been focused on the two cases before the United States Supreme Court having to do with same-sex marriage. I feel … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/25/13: EASTER AND “BRAINLESS TOURISTS ON A PACKAGED TOUR” OK, I confess that having been in pastoral-teaching leadership within the Christian community for a long a time (maybe too long), I may look at what takes place on Easter … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/21/13: BONHOEFFER AND POPE FRANCIS In his first mass with the cardinals after his election as pope, gathered in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Francis made some pointed comments in his homily that reminded me, for all the world, of … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/18/13: MY RESPONSE TO THE ELECTION OF POPE FRANCIS I was asked multiple times last week (as were many of us) about my response to the election of Pope Francis (Archbishop Bergoglio of Argentina). Actually, my response was a … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/18/13: MY RESPONSE TO THE ELECTION OF POPE FRANCIS I was asked multiple times last week (as were many of us) about my response to the election of Pope Francis (Archbishop Bergoglio of Argentina). Actually, my response was a … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/14/13. IT’S NOT WHAT TAKES PLACE IN THE LOCKER ROOM, BUT … Here we are again in March, and some of us are looking forward to the NCAA basketball tournament. Those forthcoming games are going to be an amazing … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/11/13. JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT—ST. PATRICK I am by self-definition, a missiologist, i.e., one who makes a study of Christian missions currently, and historically. This being so, while some of my Blog readers may be celebrating St. … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/7/13. THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS, AND A DIFFERENT GENERATION Having been a guest of the Vatican at one time (when members of the Curia invited a group of us who identified ourselves as Protestant evangelicals to come discuss some … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/4/13: QUESTION: BEYOND MY FACEBOOK IMAGE, WHO AM I REALLY? I’m fascinated by the coffee shops in which I hang out. Here are all of these people with their laptops, their iPads, and iPods … busily engaged in communicating, … Continue reading →