I should begin with explaining how, following Bernard Lonergan, I distinguish the medieval from the modern ideals of science. There are two elements at work in the controversy over the supernatural, one “medieval” and the other “modern.” The first, predominating element is metaphysical, concerned with ends, natures, powers, and orders.
For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops. Sooner or later, one day, this pounding action will cease of its own accord, and the blood will begin to run towards the body’s lowest point, where it will collect in a small
Editor’s Note: Our friend and longtime Meridian writer Larry Barkdull passed away. To remember and honor him this is one of a series of his past articles that we are republishing regularly. If the scriptures teach us anything, they teach us that Israel’s God will not let Israel go,[i] despite her
Good News is attending the 2024 General Conference of The United Methodist Church meeting in Charlotte, NC, from April 23 to May 3. Our efforts are focused on providing a disaffiliation pathway for annual conferences and local churches that have not had a fair opportunity to discern their future. This
from the ELCA advocacy office in Washington, D.C. – the Rev. Amy E. Reumann, Senior Director Partial expanded content from Advocacy Connections: April 2024 HUNGER IN THE FARM BILL | PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS STANDARDS | PEPFAR EXTENDED FOR JUST ONE YEAR | CALLS FOR BILATERAL CEASEFIRE INCREASE | APPROPRIATIONS BILL
Today’s Reading: Read 2 Samuel 7; I Chronicles 17; Psalm 127:1; Psalm 1 Grab some Legos or Lincoln Logs. Work together to build a house. Ask, “Did you know that “make a house” can have more than one meaning? What else do you think it could mean? In our reading
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday is the Fifth Sunday of Easter. Two more Sundays and then it will be the Feast of Pentecost, or Whitsun, which falls this year on May 19. On Pentecost Sunday Christians celebrate Jesus’ keeping of his promise to send the Holy Spirit
The “Catholic Intellectual Tradition” is a concept often invoked to help characterize the warrant for a conversation staged between the sciences and the humanities, where the latter include philosophy and, of course, theology—even if theology is not strictly speaking a discipline of the humanities but a sacred science, a “sacra