As the news is again reminding us Catholics are part of a secretive and abusive church built on ldquo homosocial rdquo power men governing men and excluding women men in a culture of homoerotic images too often and too loudly denying genuine life beyond heterosexuality and willing to go to al

Next week is the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress a giant Catholic cruise-ship of an event with typically upwards of 40 000 people from a broad array of pastoral work spending several days together in Anaheim for conversation inspiration and a hope for a holy break from the routin

At Fordham I have the challenge and distinct joy of working with many different kinds of theology students from undergraduate to master s to doctoral students often in the space of a single day This term I teach an undergraduate course that is an introduction to practical theology We are a sma

I have now heard from a number of respondents about my earlier post asking whether tenured theologians have an obligation to help rethink the present system of academic labor Several rightly criticized the post for not going far enough Inspired by those responses and ready to put more cards on th

When people find out that I am a college professor one of the first questions they ask with increasing frequency and directness over the past year is ldquo Do you have tenure rdquo My answer of ldquo yes rdquo is often met by a response along the lines of ldquo you rsquo d better be grateful

Off and on over the past several months I ve been listening to and watching performances of Wilco s song Theologians from their 2004 album A Ghost is Born I come to the song more as someone presumably addressed by the title than as a Wilco devotee I cannot help but hear this song as a rebuke

Almost a decade ago I was inspired by Naomi Klein s book No Logo to pull the clothes out of my closet and dresser drawers and find out who made them where under what conditions and for how much All in pursuit of one bigger question why I ended up writing a book in 2003 inspired by this experi

I am wondering if readers can recommend any interesting ethical discussions of the uses to which email can be put I have in mind particularly the use of the blind carbon copy or BCC function that is included in most email software I first became aware of the ethical dubiousness of the BCC wh

The Association of Practical Theology APT is the primary professional organization in the United States for practical theologians and for all those interested in the ways that religious and theological studies attune to and are attuned by ecclesial and cultural practices Full disclosure I m o