Tag: conversation
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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our class tried to think about how the kind of “outward piety” Jesus criticizes in Matthew 23 competes with “the weightier matters of the law” in our world. We all had memories of Sunday clothes vs. school clothes; one of our classmates told about a time she scolded one of her children for not wearing […]
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Working Theology
Gramsci said that everyone is a philosopher – because everyone has a philosophy of life. In that sense, everyone is also a theologian. Everyone has a theology – a talk about God – whether it’s derived from the Catechism of the Catholic Church or what the madrasa curriculum covers or Mom’s explanation of puja or […]
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On Not Knowing What You Don’t Know
There are a lot of things I used to be, and one of them was a political science major. Even then, I was not really that interested in electoral politics. The kind of politics I was then and have always continued to be fascinated by is micro-politics: how people establish boundaries and power relations and […]
Matters of Interpretation 