Gary Dorrien

Sep 25, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Gary Dorrien |Charles McNamara |Stephen Pope |Regina Munch

In September 1974 I took my first airline flight, headed to Harvard Divinity School. I was a child of the working class in mid-Michigan and a new graduate of the local Alma College who would not have made it into college had I not been a high-profile athlete in a large sports-factory high school. In college I gradually transferred my sports perfectionism to social-justice activism and things intellectual, with no intention of becoming an academic.

Sep 23, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Dominic Preziosi |Nicholas Misukanis |Gus Mitchell |Gary Dorrien

Article Toxic Relationship Being Israel’s trusted ally does not require the United States to be Netanyahu’s protector—much less his enabler. Article Two Americas? Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it’s not that simple. Article History’s Survivors As the promise of endless material abundance breaks, the resilience of the peasant may no longer seem as irrelevant as it once did.

Jan 2, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Thomas Banchoff |Gary Dorrien |Charles McNamara |David Albertson

He leapt to the podium with youthful energy and gripped the lectern with both hands. Pausing for a moment to collect his thoughts, he pushed the hair out of his face and smiled broadly at the audience that had assembled for the opening lecture of a conference at Notre Dame. “It is a privilege to be with all of you at this university,” I recall him saying.

Sep 25, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Gary Dorrien |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic

The Black prophetic tradition remains the touchstone of progressive religion and politics in the United States, but it takes several forms. Many of its leading voices do not sound like Martin Luther King Jr., or evoke his memory, or speak in his idioms. But the standout figure in this prophetic tradition today is unmistakably a throwback to MLK. William Barber stands out today as the symbol of the coalitional, Gospel-based, social-justice activism of the Black social-gospel tradition.

Aug 8, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Massimo Faggioli |Matt McManus |Gary Dorrien |Megan Buskey

The numerous reactions and protests have had an effect: the Dicastery for Culture and Education has partially backtracked, announcing that the negative decision is valid “at the moment” and that it wants to take a year to review the case. What was the problem in Lintner’s publications? It has been reported that his book The Rediscovery of Eros (published in German in 2011 and in Italian in 2015) was anonymously denounced in 2012 by two different people.