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A surprising flip of the script on generosity
I came across something surprising in Leviticus 25 yesterday (admittedly, not a sentence I utter very often). Verse 35 states: “If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.” (NIV) What…
How Alethea vanished from the family picnic
This is a piece written using an image from Edward Gorey as a writing prompt.
A Study in Charity and Public Discourse
An article I wrote for the Canadian-American Theological Review, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (2024).
The Imitation of the Spirit
Christians are taught to practice imitatio Christi, empowered by the Holy Spirit. What if we flipped this narrative? (Article I wrote for Christian Century magazine.)
Divine Joy: A Response to Classical Theism, with help from Thomas Aquinas
What is the difference between a photograph of a child and a drawing they make for you?
A call for Catholics and Protestants to receive Communion—side by side
An article published in America Magazine, 7 Nov 2024
In Pursuit of Human Flourishing
Link to my dissertation in the research repository at the Vrije Universiteit/Free University in Amsterdam, NL
Certainty, or confidence?
Certainty, or confidence? Which is the better word for thinking about our relationship with truth?
Roads and Bridges
“From the state and use made of its roads, the condition of a community can be judged.”
Gratitude in Thomas Aquinas
Here is the chapter I contributed to Wipf and Stock’s collection of essays Gestures of Grace.
A Dark Tale
Here is a short story. It’s a bit weird, but I hope you like it. Maybe it will even give you a shiver or two. Maybe.
An ode to ‘you’: the power of the second-person pronoun
‘You’ is quite a marvelous word. It indicates an interconnected set of individual experiences that each stand on their own, and yet which are different for having crossed paths.
Making the world small
What do you do when your burden is a form of normal life, and for the time being you are helpless to make it any different?
Shocking news in the neighborhood
A reflection on what actually makes the parable of the Samaritan so shocking.
Are you questioning me? (I hope so!)
A reflection on the wonder and magic of a really good question.
“Gratitude in Thomas Aquinas: A Spiritual Exercise of Alignment with the Good”
A VERY brief taste of my dissertation. =D
Meg Giordano 