Contributors Neil Dhingra

Neil Dhingra

Neil Dhingra, a Roman Catholic, is a doctoral student in education at the University of Maryland. (His views are solely his own). He is especially interested in Church history, ecumenism, and pedagogy.

Trauma and the Eucharist

March 18, 2019

Books, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church

All the sacraments are traumatic for us. Our body is no longer completely our own, our present is interrupted by a foretaste of the eschatological banquet, and the sacraments ultimately are beyond any adequate verbal description.

An Unsentimental Family

December 31, 2018

Bible, Exegesis, Roman Catholic Church

The Holy Family's faith is neither sentimental nor easy nor even stable.

Tradition and the Puzzling Gospel of St. John

December 27, 2018

Bible, Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church

Tradition may be self-correcting.

Luke’s Lessons for Living amid Tragedy

October 18, 2018

Bible, Books, Commentary, Liturgy, Roman Catholic Church

On this feast day, St. Luke can guide us through a history tinged with disaster.

Bishop Barnes, Anglican Eugenicist

August 9, 2018

Books, Church of England, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church

How could Bishop Barnes, a Cambridge mathematician, have gone so badly wrong?

How We Think

July 5, 2018

Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church

We cannot separate our thinking from our interactions with a community because thought isn’t merely analytical problem-solving.

Acts and Eugenics

April 1, 2018

Good Book Club, Roman Catholic Church

Luke's book of the Acts of the Apostles teaches us what it means that "God shows no partiality."

Another Angle on Cradles

February 2, 2018

Commentary, Roman Catholic Church

The question is whether we can learn to use religious language as a form of self-emptying, not self-justification.