If you are so inclined, please stop by the South By Southwest (SXSW) site and cast a vote for a panel some colleagues of mine from Rock and Theology and I have proposed entitled “Religion Remixed: Pop Music as Spirituality.” Here is a description of the proposed panel: Speakers Monica Miller – Lewis and Clark [...]

No Roman Catholic—whether a theologian or not—should be afraid to publicly express reasonable doubt about a point of doctrine, with the trust and freedom that belongs to the children of God, as one who feels and knows that he or she is among family, without fear of being denounced or discredited. To express one’s doubt [...]

I’m happy to have been asked to be part of the team at the new Journal of Postcolonial Networks, an outgrowth of the Postcolonial Theology Network. From the journal’s statement of its publishing process: The Journal of Postcolonial Networks (JPN) has brought together the most senior scholar faculty available for its board of peer reviewers [...]

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I offer once again some reflections I wrote on the fifth anniversary for a course on Catholic social thought using fundamental theological concepts of German Catholic theologian Johann Baptist Metz. For part one of “’We Will Never Forget’”: Metz, Memory, and the Dangerous Spirituality of Post-9/11 America,” click here. [...]

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 [...]