Where is theology happening? Who makes theology? What is theology? There are so many tensions in researching, writing about and holding space for theology, and sometimes the word starts to blur and refract, as when I repeat any word over and over. It gives me a strange sensation, as if the shape and sound of … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 30 May, 1-2pm IST →

Constantine's vision and the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in a 9th-century Byzantine manuscript. I'm thinking a lot about indigeneity, the literal and the political dimensions, whether indigeneity is something one inherits (for example, by being from a place), or whether it is something one can make/earn (by investing emotional, spiritual, material effort in a … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 23 May, 1-2pm Irish time →

This post by Tricia Hersey of the Nap Ministry is with me this week. Alongside photographs of Hebron, she writes: "I visited Palestine to study Palestinian Liberation Theology for 2 weeks while in seminary in 2014. I was tear gassed at a camp. Pulled over constantly because I was traveling with Palestinians. It is apartheid … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 16 May, 1-2pm IST →

In June I hope to be able to travel from Ireland to the UK to participate in a transformative justice retreat focused primarily on embodied griefwork. It was something I initially suggested to my friend Lelo, and then it became something that Lelo and I wanted to pursue together, both in order to work a … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 9 May, 1-2pm Irish time →

This week I've been thinking a lot about Catholic women, the ones I know a little about, such as Dr. Mary McAleese (former President of Ireland), Dorothy Day, the poet Fanny Howe, the theologian M. Shawn Copeland, Sister Stan Kennedy and Sister Corita Kent (whose artworks are featured here -- and thanks forever to É. … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 2 May, 1-2pm IST →