Some final #AARSBL25 #SBLAAR25 photos. (American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature) in Boston. Had a great time, and also glad to be home! Thanks to all who stopped by the @litpress.bsky.social booth!

We are having way too much fun at the @litpress.bsky.social space at the Society of Biblical Literature / American Academy of Religion! #sblaar25 #aarsbl25

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the @litpress.bsky.social booth for Day 1 of #SBLAAR25 #AARSBL25! Looking forward to more gatherings today!

Our director Therese Ratliff and editor for pastoral and parish resources Justin Huyck are at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week with publishers from all over the world, sharing our catalog of books and discussing industry trends!

Fatma Tanis (NPR) on the lost opportunity in Uganda with the cancellation of USAID funding, and how it was ripped away from those who were promised a lifeline. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Tim Rohn (Politico): "[W]hatever direct connection between a migrant’s behavior and a decision to arrest them might once have existed, that connection is now broken. . . .there is no longer any distinction between 'applying for asylum' and 'entering illegally.'" www.politico.com/news/magazin...

What Sept. 11 teaches us about death and resurrection. youtu.be/5PZMm0phCGk?...

What I love about this story is that the pastor went to a workshop, learned about sensory rooms for the first time, and asked an expert parishioner to lead the charge to build one. This is ministry! www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of author, Nathan Chase. He was a man of deep faith, who in recent years served as Assistant Professor of Aquinas Institute of Theology (St. Louis, MO) and Co-editor of Pray Tell Blog. May perpetual light shine upon him. praytellblog.com/index.php/20...

This is a moving interview from @colleendulle.com of America Magazine on Pope Francis's health and why many feel so connected to him as our Holy Father. May our God of peace and healing strengthen him in this time. m.youtube.com/watch?v=NbXQ...

Today is the feast of St. Brigid of Ireland. Friends at Sober St Patrick’s Day made this beautiful short film based on my reflection in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social Enjoy!

@clarkeatamerica.bsky.social:"You know who is not getting rid of fact-checking? The editors & journalists in the much-derided legacy media...news sources many Americans have abandoned in exchange for an emerging mediascape of podcasting commentary & fabulism" www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

“There’s never a time when they can relax a little bit,” said Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at Johns Hopkins University. “That’s a really challenging and exhausting thing to ask someone to do." www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

The human family & today's Feast of the Holy Family: Do we allow baptismal virtues (Colossians 3) to soften our hearts, that we may protect the human dignity of every person in these callous times? | Text in graphic from my Baptism: Alive in Christ @litpress.bsky.social: litpress.org/Products/640...

Happy Thanksgiving! Check out this great story on the many culinary talents of Brother Aelred Senna, Publisher of @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social

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Pope Francis on "covertly prefabricated histories" & "exclusionary memories": "The work of historians and knowledge of their findings are of decisive importance today and can serve as an antidote to this lethal regime of hatred that rests on ignorance and prejudice" press.vatican.va/content/sala...

Housekeeping Part III: I am also the author of two books with Liturgical Press and Little Rock Scripture Study: Baptism, Alive in Christ and From Home to Home, Finding Meaning in Mobility | More about my ministry background, speaking, and writing here: www.faithshape.org/about/

Housekeeping Part II: I am Editor of Pastoral and Parish Resources at Liturgical Press, a position I started this year after 20 years in ministry. I work remotely from Ohio, but was pleased to be at Liturgical Press and Saint John's Abbey in Minnesota for a regular visit last week | www.litpress.org

Welcome to those connecting with me on Bluesky! Housekeeping: The posts before this were imported or re-posted from those that previously appeared on Twitter, except that links (e.g. to articles) were removed, and re-tweets or quoted posts were not imported.

For Christians this way of thinking & acting is unacceptable,since it sets certain political preferences above deep convictions of our faith: the inalienable dignity of each human person regardless of origin, race or religion & the supreme law of fraternal love (PopeFrancis. Fratelli Tutti, no. 39)

No one will ever openly deny that [migrants] are human beings, yet in practice, by our decisions and the way we treat them, we can show that we consider them less worthy, less important, less human. (Pope Francis, Fratelli tutti, no. 39)

Our own days, however, seem to be showing signs of a certain regression. Ancient conflicts thought long buried are breaking out anew, while instances of a myopic, extremist, resentful and aggressive nationalism are on the rise. (Pope Francis, Fratelli tutti, no. 11)

Happy Easter! One option for today's readings is Colossians 3:1-4. It reminds us that #Easter is not simply "turning the page" but helps us embrace the meaning of Christ's suffering and death in the light of his resurrection. I reflected on this passage in my book on baptism.

.@pontifex: "The contribution of communication is indeed that of making possible this communal dimension, this relational capacity, this vocation to connections"

.@pontifex: The word “reconciliation” is..practically synonymous with the word “Church”. It comes from the word “council” & means “meet again in council”. The Church is the house where we “conciliate” anew, where we meet to start over and to grow together

.@pontifex on communication as an "outbound path" beyond self-centredness "to look towards a broader horizon is indispensable in this moment of epoch change." Path of St. Paul who in "communicating the Gospel created relationships & made communities"

.@Pontifex to General Chapter of Brothers of Christian Schools (LaSallian brothers): "The two great challenges of our time: the challenge of fraternity & the challenge of caring for the common home, cannot be answered except through education"

.@Pontifex: Good communication about complexity of reality, not "a sound bite, with the aim of ridiculing the other person..It is sad when, even in the church, ideological alignments are formed &listening disappears, leaving sterile opposition in its wake"

VaticanCardinals open Wk of Prayer for ChristianUnity by inviting ecumenical partners into Synod:“listening should concern the totality of those who are honored by the name of Christian,since all the baptized participate to some degree in the sensus fidei"

.@pontifex, celebrating 100th anniversary of Terrasanta magazine: "Communication, in the time of social networks, must help to build community, or better still, fraternity"

.@pontifex on ecumenism in Finland: "Let us remind ourselves that we are making this journey not as those who already possess God but as those who continue to seek him"

.@pontifex: "sadly we are finding increasingly that we live in a world of strong ideological divides” where people let themselves be influenced by ideologies built upon “baseless information or poorly documented facts”

.@BouyguesLee @RebootFndn in @CatholicNewsSvc: I found tons of articles of why screens are bad for you, but we found very little about what differently we’re doing in the digital world. What we need to do more is better critical-thinking education.

Archbishop Roche: It is in the #Eucharist that we find the genetic code of the church

I highly recommend #CatholicCares & its webinars - a coalition of many Catholic orgs incl @TheCHAUSA, @Inword_witness, @NCEATALK. Vaccination is essential to protecting ourselves & families and caring for the common good & vulnerable at this critical time

The Most Rev. David J. Bonnar, Bishop of the @DOYoungstown, has appointed me Coordinator of Media Relations. I am grateful and look forward to exploring new ways of witnessing to the grace of our life as Church and mission of unity & healing in our world.

We will all be emerging into post-pandemic (or late pandemic) society at different times, with different experiences, and having been changed in unique ways.

Every night during this Easter Week, Julia, kids, and I have been reading one reading and singing one psalm from Easter Vigil (Julia's idea). Tonight was Baruch (3-4), and the petitions we happened to get from @GiveUsThisDayLP tonight couldn't be more perfect. #Wisdom

St. Patrick's Day holds within it the historical memory of the populist violence directed at Irish-Americans, fueled by conspiracy theories. May this day be a response and rejection of the violent hatred, racism, & xenophobia of our era | @NewYorkHistory

.@pontifex: In these times of trouble . . . it may appear challenging to speak of hope. Yet Lent is precisely the season of hope, when we turn back to God who patiently continues to care for his creation which we have often mistreated (cf. Laudato Si)

.@mboorstein⁩: Catholicism and its structures — its poetry, humor, teachings, rituals — have always been how Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has understood healing, others and himself

.@nytimes article on lying, conspiracy theories, and tribalism throughout history and today: I also can't more highly recommend the @frontlinepbs documentary: United States of Conspiracy

Medical experts in @nytimes: Covid being relatively harmless among younger adults "has not been borne out by emerging data. In the past, it took us too long to respond to the epidemics of opioids & H.I.V./AIDS when the young started dying in large numbers"

.@emilybazelon's October piece on free speech and disinformation is one of the most important and well-researched of the year (spoiler: listen to Hannah Arendt). Sadly, I think it will be relevant for some time.

One's spirituality and sense of liturgical time is affected by monitoring the lag of a liturgy's livestream, but maybe deeper mysteries are revealed: Christ is present at all times. The body of Christ is gathered, across all time and space.

Catching up on "Tuesdays w/ Merton" from ITMS @MertonCenter. @DanHoranOFM on "Merton and Black Lives Matter" frankly addresses untruths about BLM, Merton's posture of listening/reading/reflecting & lessons for today, and some John Lewis-Merton sleuthing

Also: so important that both Biden and Harris thanked our poll workers and vote counters, who are true patriots for working in the midst of the pandemic, and continuing to work right now during this time of great emotion

Whoa. Our second Catholic president-elect just did some liturgical music mystagogy in his victory speech, reflecting on Jan Michael Joncas' "On Eagle's Wings"

.@DrAmyActon in interview draws connection b/w Ohio political climate/talk radio and her time in post-Genocide Rwanda: "The genocide started with these radio talk shows that built up this ‘othering’ of people. It dialled up and dialled up and dialled up"