These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.
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Category: Inculturation
Catholics Celebrate the Lunar New Year
For Catholics in Asia, the Lunar New Year is celebrated almost as if it were a Feast day.
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Racism and the Liturgy: Q&A with a Sociologist
Any marginalization and discrimination present in the Church would be seen in liturgy – these things don’t happen in a vacuum.
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Founding a Benedictine monastery near Nairobi
As mentioned in my last post, early October found me in Nairobi for a second time in three years, teaching monastic art as part of
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Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth
Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.
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A new conference for Kenyan contemplative nuns
The spirit of the Church is alive and well in these growing African communities.
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Vatican Conference: Church and Composers
Tthe whole conference was a very worthwhile meeting of cultures, minds and hearts.
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Civic celebration or Christian funeral? The memorial for Sen. John McCain
It was a lab for what we do and what we believe about death and liturgy, and an incredibly confusing one at that.
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Ordination to Sacramental Priesthood: Traditional, Communal, Familial
The community exuded a practical, liturgical and communal, ecclesiology of their corporate baptismal identity as “a royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9) through not only their robust engagement in the Divine Liturgy but also their affective, and thus effective, hospitality to us.
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Wrestling with Words: Inclusive Language and the Difficulties of Prayer
We should always seek more adequate language about God, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that by doing so we can free ourselves from having to wrestle with the words in all their gendered, historical, concrete specificity.
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