It was my first Passover Seder. Our host, Karen Kahn said it would be a celebration of liberation, not of religious orthodoxy. She and her wife, Patricia Gozemba have been warriors for many causes, from LGBT rights to clean air,…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Passover Seder to Easter: Letting Go of Odious Orthodoxy
Tagged with: Discovery doctrine, Easter, Episcopal Church, Karen Khan, Passover Seder, Pat Gozemba, Pope Francis, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Timothy Dolan
Posted in Easter, I BLOG, Indigenous peoples, Passover, Quakers, Uncategorized
Posted in Easter, I BLOG, Indigenous peoples, Passover, Quakers, Uncategorized
A Pope from Hawaii? Bring on the mischief.
South America, Argentina, Hispanics and a soccer team, have claimed him as their own. Maybe, one suggested, God is an Argentine? Perhaps we can make the case that Pope Francis is really from Hawaii. Wasn’t that the spirit of aloha…
Tagged with: Dirty War, Habemus Papam, Hubris, Iraq, Network, Paul Ryan, Pope Francis, Sr. Simone Campbell, St. Francis of Assisi
Posted in Equality and Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Families, Ordination, St. Francis of Assisi, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Vatican
Posted in Equality and Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Families, Ordination, St. Francis of Assisi, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Vatican
Pope Francis: Reason to Hope
From beyond the boundaries of Rome, taking the name of that most beloved, most radical of saints, given to the grand signifying gesture, dedicated to simplicity and love for all of creation. Yes, there’s reason to look to Cardinal Jorge…
Tagged with: Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, St. Francis of Assisi
Posted in I BLOG, Papal Conclave, Uncategorized, Vatican
Posted in I BLOG, Papal Conclave, Uncategorized, Vatican
We Need New Thinking, Not New “Wrapping,” Cardinal.
As the papal conclave moves towards electing a new pope, what does it say about the prospects for real change in the Catholic church when one of its most prominent cardinals says of church teachings: “Let’s perhaps work on a…
Tagged with: church teaching, Gospel, Kurien Kunnumpuram S.J., Papal Conclave, Timothy M. Dolan
Posted in Cardinals, I BLOG, Papal Conclave, Politics and Religion, Pope Benedict, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Cardinals, I BLOG, Papal Conclave, Politics and Religion, Pope Benedict, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Out of “Horrible Inconsistencies,” a New Pope?
“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion…
Tagged with: Apostolic Palace, Frederick Douglass, Gospel, Hans Kung, Papal Conclave, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican Spring
Posted in I BLOG, Papal Conclave, Uncategorized, Vatican
Posted in I BLOG, Papal Conclave, Uncategorized, Vatican
Transfiguration
“We are all agents of transfiguration. Go forth and transform your personal relationships, your community, your world, so it becomes hospitable to joy, to justice, to freedom, to peace.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu “Today I stand here by your side, privileged and…
Tagged with: civil unions Hawaii, David McCollough, Desmond Tutu, John George Roth, Transfiguration of Jesus
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Catholics: Time for a Rosa Parks Moment
Hillel says, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?” Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14 Is the Pope’s…
Tagged with: E.J.Dionne, Fr. George Cerniglia S.M., Petrine ministry, Pope Benedict XVI, Rosa Parks, Women in the Catholic Church
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
How We Get To Heaven
God knows—and we know—that there are plenty of things that we should be worrying about if we really want to make this world a better place. Hunger. Ignorance and the denial of science. Corruption. Discrimination and oppression in all its…
Prayer for Bishops
May Christ’s deep peace be yours. May God’s Wisdom Spirit be within you and guide you in all of your ways. May the light of Christ’s great love be the first thing you meet upon awakening and your last awareness…
Tagged with: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Brian Coyne, Catholica Australia, FutureChurch, Sr. Christine Schenk
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Gongs and Cymbals
If I speak in human and angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. 1 Cor 13 Nothing in my own background or education equipped me to deal with this grave…
