Ethical frameworks are needed to guide posthuman life toward robust, sustainable futures, but theology and spirituality can only contribute meaningfully if they adequately engage human evolution.
Ethical frameworks are needed to guide posthuman life toward robust, sustainable futures, but theology and spirituality can only contribute meaningfully if they adequately engage human evolution.
Theologian and ethicist Margaret Farley begins not by talking, but by listening, by offering her merciful attention and accompaniment as another human being begins to articulate their own experiences and troubles.
In our time, in the Spirit of our times, we have seen buried in the hearts of the popes who have gone before us their personal attempts to bring us through what the era demands but which we cannot see from long-range vision.
In the third conversation with Sr. Joan Chittister for John Dear's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Chittister challenges us to build a "Beatitudes Movement" that brings people together in small communities of action, resistance and deep faith.
In this second conversation for John Dear's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister dives into the next three Beatitudes, showing how they call us to radical compassion, unshakable justice and undivided hearts.
Does the Catholic college or university have anything distinctive to offer to today's world? Only if it maintains dynamic engagement with an evolving world, says Ilia Delio.
While the pope is acting on his desire to include women in administrative positions in the church, he seems to have turned a deaf ear to calls for women in ministry. The stumbling block seems to be his view of women.
"If forgiving your enemy is not weakness, what is it?" Sr. Helen Prejean, a leading voice in the abolition of the death penalty, talks with John Dear on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast."
