This video has been edited. The transcript below reflects a full record of this part of the discussion.  ModeratorJames Martin, S.J.Editor-at-large for America Media  PanelistsNancy DallavalleTheologian and vice president for mission and identity at Fairfield University Deacon Gr

A crucified God is not the status quo, and it is isn’t made into the acceptable, the intellectually palatable, by the proclamation of the resurrection.

All of us have interior afflictions that paralyze us, like the unnamed ailment that ravaged the man in Luke’s Gospel and left him motionless on a stretcher.

Complacency is an occupational hazard of participating in a two-thousand year old belief system.

First Saturday of Advent