
Gospel Rewrite: Jesus and Power
In this Gospel Rewrite, Satan tempts Jesus by offering him the kingdoms of the world. And Jesus accepts.

Gospel Rewrite: Jesus and Wealth
In this Gospel Rewrite, the rich young ruler asks Jesus what he must do to be saved. And Jesus instructs him to go and make himself wealthier.

Shadowing Pádraig Ó Tuama: Common Ground is Not the Goal
While prioritizing the search for common ground has great use, it also runs the risk of assuming we must do this because difference is bad.

Shadowing Pádraig Ó Tuama: Populate Our Language with Plurals
More than once during our month together, I heard Pádraig say, “We need to populate our language with plurals.” Singular language often impoverishes our understanding of issues and ideas.
Populating our language with plurals may help us remember that we are all multitudes. Even the person we think we totally understand—we don’t. Our simple, un-nuanced, stereotypical ways of speaking need always to be further complicated.

Shadowing Pádraig Ó Tuama: The Political is Personal
Everything political is personal for someone. Politics, at its etymological root, has to do with how we organize our lives and affairs with the people we live among. And how we live among each other affects us all in personal ways.

Shadowing Pádraig Ó Tuama: Understanding is Not Complicity
Being able to understand is not the same as justifying, or agreeing with, or supporting. It’s simply being able to get your head around why and how that person, in their context with their story and their pain and their experiences and their relationships and their wiring, might come to think and act as they do. In the end, this is all about empathy.