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Author: Thomas Strunk

On Identity, Revelation, and Vocation

On Identity, Revelation, and Vocation

This last Saturday Christians celebrated the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle.  Like many people over the centuries, perhaps Caravaggio most compellingly, I find it a fascinating thing to observe – Saul the persecutor of Christians becoming Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles.  It raises an interesting question for me: Who am I? And equally: Who are you? Identity Sometimes when we ask, we’re just looking for a name – Paul, Khalil, Acacia, Tia.  Very often, we…

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A Tale of Two Dictators

A Tale of Two Dictators

Greetings from the city of the Cincinnati, and as today is the anniversary of the assassination of Caligula, January 24, 41 CE, it seems appropriate to speak of dictators and tyrants.  Don’t let our moniker “The Queen City” fool you.  We’d brook th’ eternal devil to keep his state in Cincinnati as easily as a king.  We’re named after a group of Revolutionary War officers who pledged to return to public service after the war if their country needed them. …

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Liberation Now

Liberation Now

MLK Day 2020 Why liberation?  Because unless we are free, we cannot flourish and cannot come to the fullness of our virtues.  Without freedom our virtues are not fully our own; they are contingent and can be controlled by another.  An act of generosity can be undone; an act of love can be outlawed or prevented; justice can be thwarted; wisdom can be limited.  Freedom is the first virtue upon which the others, acts of our free will, depend.  Liberation…

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