Liberation Theology

Each successive year I feel like the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas speeds up and I long for spiritual practices that will slow me down. Each year I am grateful for the season of Advent.

Winning the future means that the future is not a monster seeking to devour us but is instead a promised land of possibilities whose potential rests in us.

Rappers have been as instrumental in my theological development as any of the scholars I've read. A larger-than-life revolutionary who was simultaneously real and relatable, Tupac lived and he invited us all to live with him.

Retired Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruíz Garcia, known as the champion of the poor and indigenous in southern Mexico, died Jan. 24 of complications from diabetes. He was 86.

So, for all their differences, all religions share the same essential purpose. It has long been my hope that religious people would learn to celebrate our similarities and respect our differences.

When preachers pontificate too much from on High about the sins of homosexual sex, the cautionary tale is to be careful of what you say, because your ...

It's not hard to see what Beck has against "liberation theology." It's the same reason people are often against "social justice." Both ideas ask us to consider the plight of the poor.

Catholic critics of the Church can expect to find themselves attacked by both the left and right wings of the Church and the community at large -- and they are rarely disappointed.

As I write this, our students are collecting Bibles from across the nation, packing them in boxes, and sending them to your offices. We've marked a few of the social justice passages, just in case you can't find them.

In the West, two alternatives exist: Marxism and Christianity. This panel sought to point out common ground between the two.

Jesus may not have been primarily concerned with politics, but for what politics he did have, it is virtually impossible to argue that he was anything but a progressive thinker.