Forgive Us Our Trespasses? By Marcia Pally The Living Church Magazine, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” What is it that we’re forgiving? As our various English translations have it, do we mean […]
Sacrifice: Biological and theological investigations for economic and military/political praxis Humboldt University-Berlin Theology Faculty 16-17 June, 2016 Marcia Pally The type, meaning, and assessment (value) of sacrifice is known to be contingent upon time and culture. I would like to look […]
Hardwired for Generosity: Sacrifice & the Common Good By Marcia Pally Commonweal Magazine, March 2017 The Good Samaritan, Pelegrín Clavé y Roqué In today’s America, “sacrifice” sounds like a bad thing—like having to give up what you deserve, like an […]
It’s the Genes! It’s the Hair! It’s “Cooperativity”: An Evolutionary Account of Populism By Marcia Pally It’s a virus, a friend of mine said about the far-right wins in the May elections for the European Parliament. A 31 percent vote […]
Bible Study: Matthew 6: 19-24 Biennial Church Day [Kirchentag], Dresden, Germany, June 4, 2011 By Marcia Pally First, we’d like to thank you for coming all the way out here to consider a few thoughts about this passage in Matthew. […]
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Are Humans Wired for Violence? Evolutionary biology begs to differ Marcia Pally | November 27, 2015 (RNS) Given the terrorist attacks of the last few weeks, one might be forgiven for feeling a bit bleak about the human species, its frequent use […]
Aquinas & Politics: Getting Out of and Into the Common Good By Marcia Pally published by Counterpoint Navigating Knowledge, March 13, 2019 I’m writing this blog just on returning from a conference hosted by the Thomist Center in New […]
How some abortion opponents get ‘pro-life’ radically right By Marcia Pally Religion News Service, June 28, 2016 In this time of social and political polarization, we should remind ourselves of something that unites us: abortion. Abortion is divisive when the […]
The U.S. is a representative democracy? Thoughts—and humor–on politics in the Trump era By Marcia Pally Die Tageszeitung January 20, 2017 as: “Das ‘We the people’ Gefuhl”` Visiting Europe since the Trump election, I’m not infrequently asked if, by being bad for […]