Is Your Faith Becoming a Weapon?: What Two 20th Century Prophets Would Tell Us About Christian Nationalism If you cut through the noise of cable news and social media arguments, you might hear two voices from the last century that have something urgent to say to us right now. One belongs to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German... Continue Reading →
Faith in the Machine Age: Catholic Wisdom for Living with AI
Faith in the Machine Age: Catholic Wisdom for Living with AI When did screens start controlling our lives — and what does our faith, our gospel message, our philosophical insights say about it? Join us for a ten-week journey through Catholic social teaching that speaks directly to our tech-saturated world. From Pope Leo XIII’s defense... Continue Reading →
The Kitchen Table Revolution: When Ordinary Life Becomes Holy Ground
The Question That Changes Everything Let me start with a question central to my argument: What if the holiest place God wants to meet you isn’t in a church, but at your kitchen table, your desk, or the break room at work? We tend to think that getting serious about God means retreating from ordinary... Continue Reading →
Beyond Safe Religion: When Two Prophets Challenge Our Comfortable Faith
Introduction What if the Christianity we've inherited is more about preserving our own comfort than truly practicing the courageous, demanding discipleship found at the core of authentic faith? That unsettling question is at the heart of this message, as it is raised through the lives of two unlikely prophets. One was a German pastor... Continue Reading →
When Everything’s for Sale: Catholic Faith Against a Distorted Economy ~ Pope Leo XIV
When Everything’s for Sale: Catholic Faith Against a Distorted Economy ~ Pope Leo XIV “Around us, a distorted economy tries to profit from everything.” That line hit me hard when I first read it. I had flashbacks to what is happening in the US economy. It names something we all feel but struggle to articulate—a... Continue Reading →
Refusing the Counterfeit: Thomas Merton and Christian Resistance Today
I may watch too much of the evening news. But I want to talk with you about what Christian resistance looks like in our moment—not resistance for its own sake, but resistance in the Spirit of Thomas Merton: contemplative, nonviolent, and grounded in truth-telling discipleship. What We're Up Against Let me be direct: Christian nationalism... Continue Reading →
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