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The Gospel of Ted Lasso “Come, Holy Spirit, show us your beauty, reflected in all the peoples of the earth, so that we may discover anew that all are important and all are necessary, different faces of the one humanity that God so loves. Amen.” (Pope Francis, Closing Prayer, Fratelli Tutti) The readings for the first two weeks of
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In my own unpopular opinion, the Tampa Bay Times uncovered the wrong scandal. Recently, the Times launched a series on Pasco County Sheriff’s efforts at “intelligent policing”, and this week their front-page addition to the series focused on the Sheriff’s efforts to identify teenagers who might become criminals by cross-referencing school data (grades, attendance), police
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Really? Maybe this is only my experience, but as I reflect on Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti, I find myself having this recurring emotional reaction: Really? Where I want to walk away in resignation or disgust, Francis keeps making points that a) I know are true and b) mean I can’t walk away. It’s awfully
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If. Chapter 6 of Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti is on “Dialogue and Friendship in Society.” It’s 10-11 pages, and while Chapter 2’s meditation on The Good Samaritan is the real heart of this work, for just a snapshot of what this pope is about, this short chapter is a good Cliff’s Notes. (For those
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It’s a feature, not a bug. This is personal on a couple of levels, even for this outlet. My daughter has, for the most part, two career goals: to work for Walt Disney Imagineering as an Imagineer, creating future theme parks, and to be an entertainer at a Disney theme park. As you might have
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You know, Jesus didn’t just “pretend die.” I think there’s a natural strand in us that wants a God who always wins. That’s kind of the deal, right? If God is really in control, all-powerful and way beyond anything we can imagine as good, true, beautiful, then how can God ever suffer? How can God
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Nothing unites like a common enemy. One of the things that Pope Francis points out in Fratelli Tutti is that we can’t really encounter another in a fruitful way (both as individuals and on a broader social or national scale) unless we know and love who WE are. For me to appreciate what is cool
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I’m not a demographer or social scientist or anything like that, but if I were, I would try to get a grant for a longitudinal study of people born between 1998-2004 or so. Full disclosure: my daughter is in this mini-generational cohort and my wife teaches college students who are also in this cohort. But
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Where the heck is Matt? Chapter 4 of Fratelli Tutti dives deeper into the issue of immigration and, more broadly, into the balance between being rooted in who you are and being fully open to someone who is different from you. This balance is one that Pope Francis recognizes as one we face as individuals,
Reading Francis 