BLOG

Ritual at World’s End: Essays on Eco-Liturgical Liberation Theology. By Cláudio Carvalhaes. York, PA: Barber’s Son Press, 2021. 344 pp. $59.00 Reviewed by: Rachel Joy Wheeler (bio) Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality Volume 22, Number 2, Fall 2022 Johns Hopkins University Press I was delighted to be gifted with this book by a colleague who has been the liturgist and pastoral musician at the Catholic parish where I belong. This colleague has worked with me over the years in such a patient manner by reassuring me, especially when I have made mistakes, that “liturgy is messy,” something Carvalhaes’ book…

  This precious brother from India sent me an email this morning with this poem about a shoe shining boy. I don’t know him but I was deeply moved. He allowed me to post the poem.   Eyes! On your feet By James   It is one of the busiest Railway stations Trains come and go every fifteen minutes People come and go for their work A social process or a vicious life cycle? A gentleman standing on the platform and looking straight ahead in the opposite direction A man bowed under his feet, polishes his shoe Personally denies socially…

A talk for a gathering around the River Rio Grande. At Boston University. This talk was given from Adams Ricci, Codonoguinet Creek, PA. April 8, 2022 –   What Dam Removals Can Do for a River    

ALERT: Don’t watch this video if you don’t want to see the body of a dead possum. This is about an improvised funeral of Millie. I was driving back from my son’s school and there was a dead animal. Just another one among so many. I searched and I learned that there are “over one million animals dying on roads every year in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.” Their death unbalance entire eco-systems, which include our human ways of living. We never pay attention to them, we never mourn them, and never ever even think…