As I was reading Michael Winerip s article this morning in the New York Times titled Teenagers Speak Up for Lack of Faith on the rise of atheist and agnostic clubs in U S high schools I was drawing parallels to the secular music scenes with which I am familiar It has been my perception con

I see from recent posts here that the More Than a Monologue Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church series of conferences at Fordham University Union Theological Seminary Yale Divinity School and Fairfield University is already getting some attention The conferences which will focus on LG

For those following the conversations on this blog and elsewhere about the recent Lost conference at Fordham on twenty-somethings and the Catholic Church a new round of conversation is up at the Lost website Right here you can read some questions and comments posed by those who attended a

The deep and ongoing scandal of sexual abuse and its coverup in the Roman Catholic Church raises the most uncomfortable of theological questions What does sexual abuse say about Catholicism itself about the Catholic Church itself And how do those who are or were affiliated with Catholicism live o

I ve had the delight and challenge for the last several years of being involved with the Rock and Theology Project underwritten by Liturgical Press involving theologians who are also rock musicians and fans writing about the overlap of sacred theology and secular music And in the spirit of in

Here in New York as in much of the snowy rest of the United States we have not only been sacked by successive winter storms but are now at least where I live being gently coated in freezing rain One impact on all of us who have care of young children is snow days So far in our public school

I spent Friday night and much of Saturday at the Lost conference at Fordham University a conference aimed at understanding better the relationship between the Catholic Church and 20-somethings Read my fellow blogger Michael O Loughlin s commentary here I served as moderator of a session on t

I am currently reading and inspired and challenged by Mary Gail Frawley-O Dea s remarkable psychoanalytic study of the Catholic abuse crisis Perversion of Power Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church Vanderbilt University Press 2007 Many America readers will recall that Frawley-O Dea was select

Although I have been teaching college for ten years this term marked the first time that I taught an introductory course in practical theology to both undergraduates and graduate students in the same semester Many Catholics in the United States do not know about the field of practical theology

I am very late to this video party but by reading the year-end New York Times account of memorable phrases in the USA from 2010 I came across this one double rainbow Did I miss something It turns out I missed in a theological and also in a mystical sense everything For the double rainbo