An Option for the Poor
A Theology of Liberation In 1973, Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez’s ground-breaking A Theology of Liberation was published in English. This wonderfully erudite yet readable publication invited disciples of Jesus to…
Bed-Stuy: Service with a Smile
I look forward to Tuesdays. The day gets off to a quick start as my companion and I ready ourselves for the rather long bus-train trek to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn,…
“And There Was No Room For Them At The Inn”
In recent years, I have been more involved in working with politically and economically disenfranchised New Zealanders which includes in worrying rising numbers the homeless. Their situation is distressing and…
Reflection for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time / Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost C
Amos 6: 1a, 4-7; Psalm 146; 1 Timothy 6: 11-16 (RM) or 6-19 (RCL); Luke 16: 19-31 In 2009 I accepted a longstanding invitation to visit the St. Ephrem Ecumenical…