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Written on May, 17, 2016 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Site News | Leave a comment

…and so is commenting So, if you’re reading this blog and find what I post here interesting, please considering using the various sharing buttons to let other people know. It would also help me if you let a comment on a post you liked or used the rating stars to give me some feedback. Thank you! In Christ, +Fr Gregory

Freedom is to Do the Will of God

Written on Jul, 16, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Scripture | Leave a comment

To be truly free means to do the will of God; nothing more and certainly nothing less.

All the Saints of This Place

Written on Jul, 02, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Scripture | Leave a comment

If our ancestors in the faith could become saints in their circumstances so can we. If being American, with all its opportunities and temptations, was not for them an obstacle to faith in Jesus Christ and holiness, can it be any different for us who live in Madison?

Preaching the Gospel

Written on Jul, 01, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Scripture | Leave a comment

Unlike the disciples on that first Pentecost, not only do we often fail to begin the evangelical work at the beginning–that Jesus loves us–we often speak to peoples whose hearts–unlike the hearts of the “Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven” in Jerusalem–are not ready to hear the Gospel.

Religious Suppression

Written on Jun, 28, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

When I taught psychology in a state college in California, I would always have at least one student ever semester who would object to my introducing myself as”Fr Gregory” and for wearing a cassock. They should do this on the mistaken notion that I was violating the US Constitution. Recently, as the WSJ reports (paywall) “the National Assembly of Quebec …

Rainbow pride flag flies over WI state Capitol

Written on Jun, 07, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Moral Theology | Leave a comment

LGBTQ Virtue Signaling:

History, especially church history, is complicated

Written on May, 22, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Church History | Leave a comment

To the degree that America is Christian, it is Protestant. To the degree that there is a Christian hegemony in America this dominance is (or was) exercised by traditions that arose with and after the Reformation.

Exposing Ideological Conceits

Written on May, 21, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Moral Theology | Leave a comment

Trump’s presidency (rather than simply Trump himself) not only calls into question the (progressive) commitment to rule by experts, it also casts doubt on the (conservative) notion of rule by the virtuous. Neither expertise nor virtue is evidently what effective government requires. Or maybe more accurately, both conservatives and progressives have flawed notions of virtue and expertise.

The Boldness of Humility

Written on May, 20, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Scripture | Leave a comment

To remain silent about the Gospel is not humility. We have all of us been given a word to speak; we are all of us in baptism called to be witnesses of the Resurrection and evangelists of the Gospel.

A Sign of Contradiction

Written on May, 13, 2019 by Fr Gregory Jensen in Scripture | Leave a comment

…the surprise in Acts is not the conflict, not the willingness of Christians to ape the empire. The surprise is not division but reconciliation. The surprise is not that Christians are afflicted with the same passions that lead to war in the world but that we struggle against them.