Keeping company with love
John J. Thatamanil
October 2, 2025
How would our lives be different if we believed that God is not elsewhere (the theme for our We Together gathering)? Scratch that question. “Believe”
How would our lives be different if we believed that God is not elsewhere (the theme for our We Together gathering)? Scratch that question. “Believe”
Learning from Hindu and Buddhist wisdom Three religious traditions dear to me all share a common insight: within each of us there is a twoness,
It has been a difficult and beautiful month. For just shy of three weeks, I was at Dad’s bedside as he had entered at-home hospice
The sanitization and the sanctification will start soon. Pope Francis has just passed but innocuous bromides about his contributions will come fast and furious. So
A letter from an American theologian to his Canadian church Dear Canadian friends, I am guessing that you are as dazed and confused as I
Within a context of overwhelming violence, injustice and suffering, what is the place of joy in Christian life? Under such circumstances, is joy an unseemly
In my September reflection in Faith Tides, I mused about whether it might be possible for the church to learn how to be small but
Church and world: how are we to think about the relationship between the two? Once upon a time, the question would have made little sense.
Recently, a theological dispute broke out in the public square: a relatively rare occurrence in our post-theological era. Conservative evangelicals are irate about Pope Francis’s
Disenchantment, re-enchantment and misenchantment: these are the central terms and themes of a course I’m teaching this semester. In one of my lectures at the
Few words are more central to Christian life than “discernment.” A dictionary (Oxford Languages) offers two definitions, one simple, one complex and nuanced: the ability
When Christians encounter people from other traditions, they are often inclined to ask, in a spirit of curiosity, “What do you believe?” This might seem
Nothing will make you feel like real change is impossible than personal struggles with transformation. The beginning of the New Year is almost always an
As someone committed to the work of interreligious dialogue, I take it for granted that others walk their own valid paths to ultimate reality. But
Self-deception — many in North America engage in it when they claim not to be religious. Many churchgoers also deceive themselves when we say that