Cenacle Journal
Posted in Christmas, God Among Us on Dec 23rd, 2011
God has become one of us. “And therefore,” says Karl Rahner, “everything is different from what we imagine it to be.” God is here, and all creation is being led toward its fulfillment in love. When we say, “It is Christmas,” we mean that God has spoken into the world his last, his deepest, his [...]
Posted in Cross, Lent, Weakness, Power on Mar 25th, 2010
One of our problems with God is that we have expectations as to how God should work — as to what is proper for divinity. And God often doesn’t accommodate our expectations. We know this first from our Jewish heritage, which bequeaths to us the tradition that when God acts, things happen that are out [...]
Posted in Union with God, Weakness, Power on Jun 1st, 2009
Stanley Fish, in a recent New York Times column, tackles those he calls the “schoolyard atheists” who insist that religion is either irrelevant or harmful – and in either case, false. He does this in the context of a reflection on Terry Eagleton’s book, Reason, Faith and Revolution. When Christopher Hitchens declares that given the [...]
Posted in Justice, Peace, Transformation, Violence on May 8th, 2009
A Pew Research Center survey shows that “those who attend religious services at least once a week are much more likely than those who seldom or never attend religious services” to say that torture can often or sometimes be justified against suspected terrorists. (See “The Torture Debate: A Closer Look“) Negative Witness The results of [...]
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