Papal Preaching and the Pandemic Neil Dhingra May 13, 2020 Commentary, Lay Voices on Preaching, Ministry, Roman Catholic Church This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Neil Dhingra Perhaps the most haunting photographs from this “Time of the Vir... Read More...
“A Terrible Light” Neil Dhingra February 2, 2020 Bible, Commentary, Good Book Club, Roman Catholic Church Being reborn is not easy. It is Lazarus being called to life by a “terrible light.”
Memento Mori: On Death and Evil Neil Dhingra October 31, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, Roman Catholic Church Faith strangely exists amidst explicit doubts when we contemplate our death.
Springsteen, Belonging, and Religion in Blinded by the Light Neil Dhingra September 11, 2019 Commentary, Movies, Music, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church To be sure, Springsteenism is an ambiguous religiosity. Springsteen, as Roops pronounces, “knows everything you’ve ever felt … and he can describe it better for you.” His music allows one to see the depth and profundity in ordinary life — to see even father-son conflict as “something as old as time,” as Manzoor says, and to respond with empathy. Springsteen himself is a role model of uncommon decency.
Pentecostal and Catholic Distinctives Neil Dhingra June 5, 2019 Bible, Books, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church How, in the first place, is the Pentecostal way of reading Scripture distinctive?
Godless Worlds: John Gray and Atheism Neil Dhingra April 4, 2019 Books, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church Gray, though consistently anti-utopian, is not necessarily nihilistic.
Trauma and the Eucharist Neil Dhingra 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 Neil Dhingra December 31, 2018 Bible, Exegesis, Roman Catholic Church The Holy Family's faith is neither sentimental nor easy nor even stable.
