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When “God on Our Side” Becomes Dangerous:Vance, the Pope, and the Many Faces of Violence
Not long ago, I wrote about what I called the “dangerous simplicity” of Pope Leo XIV’s claim that “God is never on the side of those who use violence.” At the…
What Does Prayer Mean in An Age of Empire? The Dangerous Simplicity of Pope Leo’s “Nonviolence”
Suddenly, everyone is talking about prayer and theology. That comes as a surprise to many who, since Harvey Cox’s The Secular City, have assumed that secularization had effectively removed God from serious…
Trump’s Continued War against the Catholic Church
It is a warning I have sounded for more than two decades now, in essays, lectures, and conversations with anyone willing to listen: the United States government has long been engaged…
Locked Doors: Faith After Iran, After Epstein
Readings for Second Sunday of Easter: Acts 2: 42-47; Psalm 118: 2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Peter 1: 3-9; John 20: 19-31 What if life can be no different from what our…
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