Kevin Hargaden

Lent 2018

Lent 2018: Week 4 – The shock of exile

March 5, 2018

Read Psalm 137 and Jeremiah 30:12-17 While “exodus” is a central motif by which to make sense of the entire Scriptures, “exile” plays a similarly large role. In exodus, the...

Lent 2018

Lent 2018: Week 3 – The hope of home

February 28, 2018

Read Joshua 3:7-17 Abram was called out of Ur and on that pilgrimage he received a new name (Abraham) and a lineage. But the children of Isaac and Jacob found...

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A deepening of faith with the Messenger

February 21, 2018

The Sacred Heart Messenger for the month of March contains a wide-range of articles such as decision-making with Brian Grogan SJ, the life of Saint Patrick with John Scally, and...

Lent 2018

Lent 2018: Week 2 – The risk of leaving our father’s home

February 19, 2018

Read Genesis 12 The reader cannot fail to note the decisive break between the end of Genesis chapter 11, where we come to the end of the story about Babel...

Lent 2018

Lent 2018: Week 1 – The first eviction

February 14, 2018

Read Genesis 1-3 Let us begin at the beginning. To do that – to read Genesis 1-3 again at the start of Lent – we must begin by putting aside...

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Lent, the bible and the housing crisis

February 12, 2018

Kevin Hargaden, social justice theologian with the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has written a lenten retreat with a difference, in order to make a difference

Lent 2018

Home thoughts from the Bible: Introduction

February 12, 2018

The story the bible tells begins with the making of home. Scholars often note how Genesis 1 and 2 depict God crafting an ordered universe out of chaos as a...

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Getting under the skin of racism in Ireland

February 12, 2018

KEVIN HARGADEN :: We Irish have no right to imagine that racism is a problem just for other countries, particularly given the way we treat the Travelling Community

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The ‘normalcy’ of homelessness

November 16, 2017

KEVIN HARGADEN :: The recent spate of harsh language around homelessness expresses a dangerous trend in our society. This is something Christians should be furious about.