April 13, 2009

A post-Enlightenment future

In 1938, America’s comparison of the terrors of Nazism with those in Spain was probably accurate. Fulton J. Sheen estimated that 12,000 clerics and 200,000 noncombatants had been murdered by the Spanish Republicans. Those numbers are too high, but not wildly so. Hugh Thomas, in

Charles Morris chronicles the first 50 years of America.

Learning to hear God's call

Ecumenical conversations and encounters

Jesus' cross and resurrection also bear rich potential for ecological insight.

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