Toward a Planetary Theology

This is a book that Dunamis Publishers, my little enterprise, has just put out. It was edited by José María Vigil and contains reflections by theologians from at least five major world religions on five continents. They all responded to questions about the possibility and urgency of a planetary theology with which every religion would be able to identify--like an ecumenical theology but much, much broader. The results are interesting and open a debate. Never before has there been an effort to bring together the threads of inter-religious theology and liberation theology. Take a peek at the Dunamis blog.
Tengo algunas copias en castellano, si alquien quisiera -- mismo precio.

Light and Darkness: A Lenten Reflection

This is something I wrote more than ten years ago. I think we often forget that Lent (the period before Easter) is meant to be a joyful time of realistic reflection about life and where we are headed.

Quite frankly I don’t know much about the Resurrection. I believe, but I sure don’t know much about it. (Actually I learned a little bit more when I visited El Salvator ten years ago during the twentieth anniversary of the martyrdom of Oscar Romero -- March 24, 1980) What I do know about, what most of the world knows about, is suffering, the passion, death. About that we know a lot. And when it comes to knowing about God and religion, most of us identify much more with Jesus in the garden than we do with him rising from the tomb. God may be more reassuring on the mountain top but he is much closer in the Gethsemane . We feel more confidence before a God who cries out in the garden or is led before Pilate than we do with a God who shines with brilliant light on the mountaintop. Maybe we will get there one day. But right now we need to know that Jesus understands what it is to sweat blood in fear, to be betrayed, to be tortured, condemned and led to the slaughter. Humanity has much more experience of being slaughtered than of conquering death.