Author: Other Voices
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s on the Sixth Sunday of Easter
[Warning: Game of Thrones Season 8 Finale Spoilers!] It might seem futile, even perilous in the current political climate actually to step up … to speak out…But chaos theory reminds us that even the disruption of a single butterfly can trigger a tornado in Texas, a revolution in respect, the foregrounding of love…
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Liturgical Attitude
Changing the inclination to emotion into an attitude of worship can seem daunting, even insurmountable.
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Brief Book Review: The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy
The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy: Why Good Liturgy Matters by Thomas O’Loughlin Who should read this? Presiders (and presiders-in-training), liturgical ministers (and liturgical ministers-in-training), liturgy committees, pastoral ministers (and pastoral ministers-in-training), catechists, Christians (and Christians-in-training, that is, Christians), anyone seeking deeper understanding of the purpose and meaning of liturgical celebrations What’s the main point?…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s on the Fifth Sunday of Easter
Jesus was a door opener, a wall obstructer, a barrier resister…and those of us baptized into his image are commissioned to do the same.
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Brief Book Review: From Fragmentation to Wholeness
In the author’s own words, “ecclesial inaction [on questions of race] has devastating consequences for the witness of the church and the integrity of the gospel it proclaims.”
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Brief Book Review: Faith of Our Mothers, Living Still
“Since its beginnings, the church’s, stories, myths, theology, ecclesiology, seminaries, authority, and ministry has been defined, described legislated and controlled by men who represent less than one half humanity.”
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s on the Second Sunday of Easter
On this feast of Thomas so called doubter, transfigured as Thomas the empathetic, Thomas the wound toucher, Thomas the Spirit dweller, we recommit to God’s mission in the crucified to touch the broken body with reverence and love
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Construction of Cathedrals Brought Progress – Not an Extended Middle Ages!
Our enlightened era spends its money on the military, automobiles, and propaganda celebrations.
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Brief Book Review: Faces of Easter
“Holtz challenges us to recognize how God is present through and working in those whom we pass throughout our days.”