NCR Podcasts Column
NCR Podcasts with Tom FoxPodcasts on NCR Cafe offer visitors interviews with authors and other thinkers focused on spiritual and social transformation. Each week, former NCR publisher and editor Tom Fox engages in conversations with people often overlooked by the mainstream media. His goal is to share ideas aimed at building a more meaningful, just and peaceful global society.
Posted on May 8, 2008 16:03pm CST.
The Catholic Worker: ‘You go to where there is need’On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement (May 1), Tom Fox spoke with Catholic Worker veteran Louis Rodemann of Holy Family House in Kansas City, Mo. Rodemann tells Fox: “The Catholic Worker is such a nitty-gritty, down to earth expression of Christian Catholic life that -- I say this not out of arrogance, but out of pride -- I think this is what Jesus had in mind.”
Posted on Apr 30, 2008 08:52am CST.
A pedagogy of forgivenessBishop Gregorio Rosa Chávez, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, visited the offices of National Catholic Reporter on Friday March 28. He talked with the editorial staff on a wide range of issues. One of his topics was the development of Catholic Social Teaching in the Latin American context. Helping the bishop with translation is Elly Jordan of the Share Foundation. (Photos by Teresa Malcolm.)
Posted on Apr 24, 2008 15:07pm CST.
A God worthy of beliefSr. Elizabeth Johnson, distinguished professor of theology at Fordham Universtiy, talks with Tom fox about her new book, Quest for the Living God Mapping the Frontiers in the Theology of God. Of this book, Roberto S. Goizueta, Associate Professor of Theology, Boston College, wrote, "Karl Rahner had an abiding concern that much of Christian theology presented God ‘unworthy of belief.' Here Johnson has given us a God truly worthy of our belief, fidelity, and love. Every word breathes with the author's own deep love of God, the church, and the world."
Posted on Apr 1, 2008 14:15pm CST.
Yoga: Living from your heartEmily Darling, an owner of a Kansas City metro area yoga studio, has practiced yoga for 20 years. She is also a yoga teacher. Darling tells Fox, “I tell my students that when we come to class we are taking time out for ourselves to find inner peace and clarity and to ground ourselves, truly so that we can have more to give everyone one around us. That way we can share that peace.
Posted on Mar 20, 2008 08:41am CST.
Soul Provider: Making old spirituality newIn his latest book, Soul Provider: Steps to Limitless Love, Passionist Fr. Edward L. Beck gives a contemporary spin to the timeless themes of the seventh-century classic The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus. Beck illustrates St. John Climacus’ 30 steps to spiritual fulfillment with anecdotes and examples. A review of the book by the Cleveland Plain Dealer says, “Fr. Beck has assembled a beautiful collection of stories from real people with real problems and real faith.”
Below left is a copy of the icon that inspired St. John Climacus and Fr. Beck.
Posted on Mar 4, 2008 19:07pm CST.
Landmark Study on Religious Affiliation
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released the results of a landmark survey of religion in the United States Feb. 25. The findings, based on surveying 35,000 adults in the continental United States, is noteworthy for its breadth and its depth. In this NCR Newscast, Pew researchers discussed three aspects of the survey, called “The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.”
The host for this program is NCR staff writer Dennis Coday
Posted on Feb 18, 2008 14:44pm CST.
Spirituality for people turned off by churchy languageKathy Coffey is the author of Hidden Women of the Gospels, Women of Mercy, God in the Moment: Making Every Day a Prayer, (Orbis) Dancing in the Margins (Crossroad), Immersed in the Sacred: Discovering the Small s Sacraments (Ave Maria), catechetical resources such as Children and Christian Initiation, Baptism and Beyond and Confirmation: Anointed and Sealed with the Spirit (Living the Good News), and many articles in Catholic periodicals like America, U.S. Catholic, St. Anthony Messenger and Catechumenate.
Posted on Feb 1, 2008 14:38pm CST.
Finding the holy in the ordinaryRobert Ellsberg is publisher and editor in chief at Orbis Books, a division of Maryknoll. He became a Catholic in 1980, largely through the influence of Dorothy Day, while he was living at the Catholic Worker House in lower Manhattan. After studying theology at Harvard Divinity School he joined Orbis as editor in chief in 1987. He is married, has three children, and lives in Ossining, New York. He is the author of three books on saints, All Saints, The Saint's Guide to Happiness and Blessed Among All Women.
He has just completed editing the diaries (1934-1980) of Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day and now is working on a collection of Day's letters.
Posted on Jan 9, 2008 15:24pm CST.
Our hunger for wisdomBruno Barnhart is a Camaldolese monk of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, Calif. He is the author of The Good Wine: Reading John from the Center (Paulist, 1993) and Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity (Paulist 1999), and co-editor of Purity of Heart and Contemplation: A Monastic Dialogue Between Christian and Asian Traditions (Continuum, 2001). His latest book is The Future of Wisdom: Toward a Rebirth of Sapiential Christianity (Continuum, 2007).
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