I am getting ready to teach in the spring semester at Fordham and one of my courses is a graduate class called Theology of Ministry Every year I feel the impossibility of saying something with solidity about a topic that is deeply elusive So many ministries are worthy of study in their explicit a

nbsp I am getting ready to teach in the spring semester at Fordham and one of my courses is a graduate class called Theology of Ministry Every year I feel the impossibility of saying something with solidity about a topic that is deeply elusive So many ministries are worthy of study in their exp

The Occupy movement is about to turn four months old and already is planning a host of events for 2012 See Occupy Together nbsp and InterOccupy nbsp for news on the larger movement and Occupy Wall Street nbsp for NYC-related developments Occupy Together lists 1508 Occupy sites globally Some o

As the media have reported the last few weeks there has been tension between many in Occupy Wall Street as well a good number of religious leaders in Occupy Faith NYC on the one hand and Trinity Wall Street on the other Trinity is a venerable Episcopal church at the end of Wall Street in lower

Despite evictions around the country Occupy continues actions on a daily basis around the USA and the world Religious organizations and spiritually-interested institutions are a part of Occupy but one thing I have noticed in New York City at Occupy Wall Street is the relative absence of Catholic

This is a quotation from the Rev Phillip Lawson veteran civil rights activist in a video produced by the Council of Elders a collection of surviving activists from the Civil Rights Movement including Sr Joan Chittister Here is a video of some of the Council of Elders endorsing the Occupy mo

For those interested I have posted my brief account with some pictures here TB

I hope all religious institutions and organizations will consider their relationship to the Occupy movement and take this occasion of a global social movement to ask themselves how their traditions of spirituality relate to their actions for justice and their works of mercy More specifically I as

This afternoon I gave a talk at the nbsp Annual Pastoral Conference Day nbsp at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown New Jersey It was delightful to speak at this gathering of pastoral workers from around the area particularly because they are so often the brokers of the theological life

For those who are interested in the theological religious spiritual dimensions of the Occupy movement here is another entry in my attempt to do some small cataloguing at Occupy Wall Street nbsp TB