Green Junction One major consequence of climate change is the loss of biodiversity. Other reasons for the decline in natural populations include changes in land use, pollution, and exploitation of natural resources. According to a 2024 report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the average decline of wildlife populations between 1970 and 2020 for 5,495... Continue Reading →
The Man Who Was Cheered by the People He Put Out of Work
Atman, Dharma, and Seva in conversation with Catholic Social Teaching — and with the machines now pressing in on all of us On a cold night in late September 1931, a train pulled into Spring Vale Station near Darwen, Lancashire, and several thousand people stood waiting in the dark. The man who stepped off wore... Continue Reading →
The Monk and the Dogmatician: What Thomas Merton Really Thought of Calvin
A death nobody talks about.NOTE NOTE: I need to preface this post with a little clarity about my neighbors and me. I live in an area, large HOA, etc., that is predominantly “Dutch” Reformed Christians of all varieties. Keep in mind that the United States has dozens of Reformed Christian denominations, ranging from large Presbyterian bodies... Continue Reading →
The Monk Who Wouldn’t Look Away: Thomas Merton on Resistance as a Democratic Duty
A Village That Said No In the summer of 1942, a French government minister arrived in a small Protestant village on a remote plateau in south-central France, carrying an order. He wanted a list — the names of every Jew hiding in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, so the Vichy police could round them up. The village’s pastor,... Continue Reading →
Worth More Than Gold: Rediscovering Catholic Social Teaching’s Forgotten Roots
And What CST is Not! In 1884, Swiss bishop Gaspard Mermillod brought together a curious mix of European Catholics—noblemen, economists, and a handful of priests—in the peaceful university town of Fribourg, Switzerland. For seven years, this gathering, which became known as the Fribourg Union, grappled with a question the Church had long left to politicians... Continue Reading →
One Reign, Not One Flag: Why Catholics Are Called to Reject Christian Nationalism
Savonarola's Florence (1490s)A theocratic reform movement that used the era's new technology — cheap print — to mass-distribute apocalyptic sermons, culminating in the Bonfire of the Vanities: a purity campaign against art, books, and "vain" objects, run with real civic power for about four years before it collapsed and Savonarola was executed. It's a compact... Continue Reading →
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