Articles tagged with: In Every Issue
by Rev. Douglas S. Stivison
If we look at ethics with any seriousness at all, we are immediately confronted with the questions about our own actions — in the voting booth, in the marketplace, in our homes, on the job, everywhere. It is impossible to abdicate ethical decision making because even abdication and inaction have moral and ethical dimensions.
by Doug Stivison
“But no one save God and the individual priest really knows what the call to discipleship has cost him.” — Walter J. Burghardt, S.J.
Reviewed by Frederick J. Streets
The book offers useful insights to people of faith, not only at critical turning points in their lives, but wherever they may be on life’s journey.
Reviewed by Douglas Stivison
This is an unusual book that deserves to be noticed. Once we picked up the slim paperback we could not put it down. It is genuinely thought provoking. It is essentially a fable or a parable. It combines elements of a Victorian Sunday School storybook with its stark moral lessons and a well-written episode of The West Wing.
By Megan L. Stivison
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults. – John Calvin, 1509–1564
by Douglas Stivison
“I Love to Tell the Story” is more than just the title of a favorite hymn; it describes the motivation behind all great preaching.