When Robert Christian and I started Millennial a year ago, we began a journey into the wilderness. We didn’t know where we would find the money to fund this. We didn’t know where we would find the time to write and recruit other writers, especially with Robert’s first born child, Avery, on the way. We… Read More One Year In: Passing on the Splendid Torch
Millennial co-founder Christopher Hale has a new article in America on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which argues: It is important that as we commemorate Reverend King, we remember the man he truly was: a Christian prophet for justice and a man deeply formed by a religious experience of God and of Jesus Christ. Doing… Read More A Christian Prophet
Millennial launched one year ago today. I just wanted to thank all of our readers; you are the ones who have made Millennial a success. My dream scenario was to get 100,000 hits this year. I never thought we would blow by that number months ago or get 50,000 hits in a month. I wasn’t… Read More Millennial Turns One
It’s all in good fun…right? Women in the Netherlands red light district put on a scantily-clad dance show that drew a crowd, but also delivered an unexpected message. Make sure to check it out and share with others, and we can work to put a stop to modern-day slavery, which is the world’s fastest growing… Read More Not Just Your Average Objectification of Women: Sex Trafficking
Yesterday’s celebration of Labor Day got me thinking about workers and the many jobs they work, both menial and skilled, white and blue collar, so many of which are essential to the functioning of our society. Some of us receive accolades for the work we do, while others get waves from young children enamored by… Read More Gratitude for the Sacred Work of our Daily Lives
Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, California wrote this year’s Labor Day Statement for the USCCB. It includes some great reflections on a key Catholic social teaching principle: the dignity of work. Here are six notable quotes from the document, with a brief reflection after each. Labor Day is an opportunity to take stock of… Read More Six Great Quotes from the USCCB’s Labor Day Statement
This week, there has been a seemingly endless stream of deeply flawed articles and statements on Syria from Catholic scholars, journalists, and leaders whose knowledge of Syria is extremely limited. Most have employed “just war pacifism,” in which just war theory is supposedly applied but inevitably leads to a pacifist position of non-intervention (or, occasionally,… Read More American Catholics need to get serious about Syria
