I have season tickets for Notre Dame football games. (This is surprising for a few reasons, but true, nonetheless.) Anyway, on a beautiful October evening, I had a perfect view as Notre Dame running back Kyren Williams took the handoff and lunged right, as the play had been drawn up. …
As the COVID pandemic receded in my town, the Mainline Protestant churches were the last to resume worship in person. Months earlier, the Catholics and the Evangelical Protestants had applied their will to find a way to worship together in their church sanctuaries without experiencing COVID outbreaks. Meanwhile, the members …
I recently watched a documentary that caused me to re-examine one of my firmly held beliefs–that churches shouldn’t be in the business of prescribing certain legislative action in the civic realm. Countless times I have heard ordained clergy advocate for a particular legislative fix to solve a deeply rooted social …
A gay man was fired from his teaching job at a Catholic high school because he got married. This was the subject of the July 14th Erasmus column of religion and policy in The Economist, which went on to explore where the line lies between religious freedom and secular anti-discrimination. …
