laudato si

A familial response to Laudato Si' in the time of COVID (COVID-19 blog no. 28)

A familial response to Laudato Si' in the time of COVID (COVID-19 blog no. 28)

During lockdown, families and individuals were stripped of the relevance of anything apart from the state of their home life, and inner attitudes. Every certainty became uncertain, and placed in lockdown, we had no choice but to sit with our being rather than our doing, and how uncomfortable that made us feel.

“Shouldn't this be about the pandemic?”: blurred subject boundaries at the edges of history (COVID-19 blog no. 20)

“Shouldn't this be about the pandemic?”: blurred subject boundaries at the edges of history (COVID-19 blog no. 20)

The death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the iconic scene of Edward Colston toppling into the river in a satisfying parallel to the slaves thrown overboard from his ships to drown in the Atlantic are pressing. They have their own force, which compels us to talk about them.