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A Palm Sunday Reflection with Saint Oscar Romero

On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down as he celebrated Mass. A week later, on Palm Sunday,…
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Going Medieval Biblical StudiesEssayTheology

Going Medieval

Lately, my classes are all running together, intersecting at the point of the Golden Calf in Exodus 32 and Dionysius. Discussing the Golden calf is fitting in our current political climate—the way we all adhere to our political and cultural ideologies, taking God captive as we pontificate about…
Jason Lief
September 23, 2016
Urban Meyer and Augustine Essay

Urban Meyer and Augustine

Our holiness begins with our acceptance of restlessness, not as a good in itself, and not as a frustrated shifting and turning and wishing for something better, simply the steady acceptance of incompletion and the radical nature of our desire for God's endlessness.   Rowan…
Jason Lief
September 16, 2016
Ghosts Essay

Ghosts

There we were, driving down a driveway made up of two deep ruts, moving deeper and deeper into the Arizona forest. At 7,500 feet, we drove along a ridge, weaving in and out of different pathways. Finally, we came to a clearing with a number of small buildings and children…
Jason Lief
July 15, 2016
The Restrooms @ Synod Essay

The Restrooms @ Synod

A few weeks ago Michael Gerson, columnist for the Washington Post, made the following comment regarding the transgender issue and bathroom use on the PBS News Hour: This is the kind of issue that is normally handled with culture norms, and people making compromises, and, you…
Jason Lief
June 17, 2016