By Tobias Winright

• Oscar Romero on Christ’s Kingship by Tobias Winright (11/17/2010)
  ...f the twentieth century has climbed to the moon, has uncovered the secret of the atom, and what else may it not discover? The Lord’s command is fulfilled: Subdue the earth! But the absolute human dominion over the earth Will be what is proclaimed today: bringing all things of heaven and earth together in Christ.<!--more--> Then humanity hallowed will put under God’s reign this world...
• In Memory of Saint Marcellus by Tobias Winright (10/30/2010)
  ...S soldiers talking about conscience in the military. Pacifist and just war Christians respectively should support both conscientious objection and selective conscientious objection. While the former is legally recognized in the US at this time, the latter ought to be also, especially if such a stance is rooted in deeply held theological and philosophical beliefs and practices, too. Thinking abo...
• Dives’ Sin of Omission by Tobias Winright (9/23/2010)
  ...le.oremus.org/?ql=152213899">Ps 146</a>; <a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=152213924">1 Tim 6:11-16</a>; <a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=152213951">Lk 16:19-31</a>) In my “Poverty, Wealth, and Justice” course, students still read Jonathan Kozol’s 1995 bestseller, <em>Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation</em>, which includes the author’s interviews with chi...
• Being Grounded by Tobias Winright (8/24/2010)
  ...ef="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=149624849">Lk 14:1-14</a> When I was a child, getting “grounded” was a form of discipline imposed on me by my parents. From my perspective then, it was something to try to avoid. However, both the book of Sirach (which Jesus, son of Eleazar, says was written by his grandfather Jesus Ben Sira) and the Gospel of Luke emphasize the importance of being “grounded,” th...
• Gather Us In by Tobias Winright (8/20/2010)
  ...a favorite for my wife and me. “Gather us in, the lost and forsaken; gather us in, the blind and the lame.” <em>E pluribus unum </em>(“out of many, one”) originally was a central theme of the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian New Testament. According to scholar Gerhard Lohfink, the “gathering” of the scattered is a key biblical term for the event of salvation. As Depaul University theologian ...
• Embodying the Word by Tobias Winright (8/12/2010)
  ...://bible.oremus.org/?ql=148583467">Ps 45:10-16</a>; <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=148583490">1 Cor 15:20-27</a>; <a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=148583511">Lk 1:39-56</a> Moral theology, which is also known today as Christian or theological ethics, seeks to help Christians answer two fundamental questions: 1) Who ought we as a community and as individual Ch...
• Peace to God's People and Earth by Tobias Winright (1/19/2010)
  ... was issued last summer. If you have read Ragan Sutterfield's EP pamphlet, <a href="http://ekklesiaproject.googlegroups.com/web/GodGrandeur.pdf?gda=TcWLfEEAAABIeqarknDG3nGBEhpGCAGWROpsPXc6jCxlUApyRWQlM2HFKJs0_OLMhrFKzkXxPEdTCT_pCLcFTwcI3Sro5jAzlXFeCn-cdYleF-vtiGpWAA&amp;gsc=UQneTAsAAAChyrb8g8CKmDe28U_TTpHS">"God's Grandeur: The Church in the Economy of Creation,"</a> you may be interested in re...
• Ethics After Pentecost by Tobias Winright (8/13/2008)
  ...he Scriptures for Sunday, August 17th (Roman Catholic lectionary) are full of extraordinary, even quite surprising, tidings. Another name for this season is Kingdomtide, and I would like to suggest that these Scripture passages are about the kin-dom that God desires to happen on earth as it is in heaven. That is, the common thread running throughout these readings is that God's salvation essential...
• On Ontology and Organizations Voluntary by Tobias Winright (5/1/2008)
  ... of life that can be hermetically sealed off from first principles of justice (abortion, euthanasia, and embryo-destructive stem-cell research), we're dealing with a confused camper. One might even say, it's a camper with a severe identity crisis."<!--more--> Such politicians fail, according to Weigel, to take seriously how certain sacraments change their recipients ontologically, "conferring o...