Joshua Whitfield
November 10, 2019
You wouldn’t think it, necessarily, but early Christian martyrs were often funny. They weren’t pious wimps singing hymns while being led away to torture and death. More often than not they were sardonic, sarcastic, and smart-mouthed.
November 8, 2019
“Easter should make rebels of us all,” wrote David Bentley Hart, an ornery theologian I happen to like. It’s one of my favorite things he’s ever said. And it is, in short, the moral of these readings from the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, that our faith should give us courage, rebellious courage.
November 3, 2019
Religion is not in decline, though such are the headlines.
November 2, 2019
We’ve been doing this since the very beginning, honoring and praying for the dead.
October 31, 2019
It’s possible only with the English language; it’s the marvelous characteristic of our great transatlantic tongue.