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God and Violence
God is non-violent. God does not prescribe violence. Violence should never be rationalized in God’s name. That is clear in Christian revelation. But that immediately poses the question: What about
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The Other Side of Orthodoxy
There are more ways than one in which our belief system can be unbalanced so as to do harm to God and to the church. What makes for a healthy,
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Mothers’ Day
For many years, I’ve had a bias against Mothers’ Day. I’m not against the concept, it’s a private grudge. My own mother died 40 years ago and my ignoring of
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The Gift that was Henri Nouwen
Henri Nouwen was perhaps most popular spiritual writer of the late 20th century and his popularity endures today. More than seven million of his books have been sold world-wide and
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The Resurrection as Vindicating Human Fidelity and God’s Silence
Theologians sometimes try to simply the meaning of the resurrection by packaging its essence into one sentence: In the resurrection, God vindicated Jesus, his life, his message, and his fidelity.
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-resurrection-as-vindicating-human-fidelity-and-gods-silence/
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The Passion of Jesus According to John
Each year on Good Friday the Passion of Jesus Christ according to John is read aloud in our churches. John’s Gospel, as we know, was written later than the other
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-passion-of-jesus-according-to-john/
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The Unquiet Frontiers of our Lives
Few books have garnered as much respect during the past five years as has Charles Taylor’s, A Secular Age. That respect is well-deserved. Given secularity’s convoluted history, there isn’t any
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-unquiet-frontiers-of-our-lives/
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The Roots of Forgiveness
In one of James Carroll’s early novels, he offers this poignant image: A young man is in the delivery room watching his wife give birth to their baby. The delivery
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Loving our Enemies
Lorenzo Rosebaugh, an Oblate colleague shot to death in Guatemala two years ago, used to share at Oblate gatherings some advice that Daniel Berrigan once gave him. Lorenzo, contemplating an
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A Contemporary Apologetics
One of the reasons why we don’t often find a good Christian apologetics today is because so many of our best theologians write at such a level of academia that