Theology is especially challenging for pastors because as we mature our theological knowledge, we are constantly reminded of bad counsel we had given in the past based on immature theology, and we are faced with regret for the harm we caused those who received that bad counsel.
All men and women, especially Christians, are called to fix their gaze on those who suffer, on the pain of the lonely, and on those who are emarginated for various reasons, for without them we cannot build a just society. Only together can we build communities of solidarity capable of caring for everyone, in which wellbeing and peace can flourish for the benefit of all. Caring for the humanity of others helps us to live our own lives to the full.
Corporations should be held accountable for causing homelessness by enforcing involuntary drug test on employees and applicants. Firing an employee only creates a harder situation for that person, and stigmatizes them that contributes to hardship ending in being unhoused.
In Snohomoish county, scores of ring-necked ducks, scaups, yellow warblers & northern shovelers live in the four waste lagoons at the treatment plant. Its tragic how beautiful birds have died out because they are forced to live in sewage water because we've destroy their habitats
“Then there was another battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.”
2 Samuel 21:19 (NRSVUE)
My favorite part of birding is when someone comes up to you while you’re trying to see a bird and yells is that the Merlin app and scares away the bird
Karl Rahner defends the Jesuits "Against the Witch Hysteria" by saying "Ignatius of loyola deems it possible that a superior may, in good faith and clear conscience, give a Jesuit an order that the latter cannot, in conscience, not consider a sin, and therefore refuse to obey."
@JesuitsGlobal tried for God's sake to work in the service of others serving and building up the Church, and who was this capable of transmitting a charism that is still active centuries later." (Theological Investigations XXIII, p. 169).