When the institutional church of today in Appalachia, particularly in West Virginia, appropriates the language and memory of This Land is Home to Me without taking to heart the pastoral’s clear option for the poor and without taking seriously the influence of liberation theology, feminist theology, and the Catholic Worker movement upon it, it is [...]

For some time now a very active group has existed on Facebook for practitioners of postcolonial theology, theory and activism called the Postcolonial Theology Network (PTN). It’s a great source of information and discussion with a growing number of theologians and students joining and contributing short essays, book reviews, bibliographies, and more. The group has [...]

A modernity driven by capitalism has rendered places into inconveniences in the path to progress to be dispensed with, either by erasure or, better still, by rendering them into commodities, which may mark the difference between modernity and postmodernity. But this very notion of progress, in the words of David Noble, is ‘progress without people.’ [...]

This past Holy Week and subsequent celebration of Easter was a rough one for me this year. Too many realities converged which made it impossible to let the Triduum go by as usual. First, there is my continuing dissatisfaction with my usual parish community and my family’s inability to feel very comfortable at any of [...]

Well, Labour Day is almost over, but nevertheless you should check out my friend J Marinelli’s cover of “Fire in the Hole” by the great West Virginian pro-union, feminist bluegrass/folk singer Hazel Dickens. J is a musician from WV currently living in Kentucky. J’s version can be heard on his MySpace music page. Lyrics can [...]