SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai

SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai

SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai is associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Portland, Oregon.

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Fr. Christian Olding blesses a gay couple during a blessing service called "Love Wins" in the Church of St. Martin in Geldern, Germany May 6, 2021.

Vatican's gay blessing decree shows rich understanding of God's grace

We ought to welcome the openness of the church to same-sex couples as one that offers us the opportunity to embody a discerning spirit, writes theologian SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai. 

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Remembering Bénézet Bujo, who offered a vision of African theological imagination

Pope Francis recently gave a new mandate to the Pontifical Academy of Theology. Interestingly, it reflects the contributions of Fr. Bénézet Bujo, a pioneering African theologian who died Nov. 9.

A view from beneath a baobab tree in Botswana. Palaver encounters under the baobab tree were how many precolonial African societies addressed disputes. (Wikimedia Commons/Roger Culos)

All war is a disgrace and failure. The church must embrace nonviolence.

The Catholic Church should take a decolonial approach as it articulates a nonviolence ethic for our times, say commentators SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai and Eli S. McCarthy.

Paper cutout figures with speech bubbles saying their pronouns (Dreamstime/Faithiecannoise)

Portland's gender policy shows a church uninterested in 'signs of the times'

Archbishop Alexander Sample's policy directing Portland Catholic institutions to interact with young people on the basis of their "biological sex identity" disregards the signs of the times, says one theologian.

Kenyan feminist theologian Teresia Mbari Hinga (Courtesy of Pauline Kenly)

Honoring Teresia Mbari Hinga, a feminist African theologian who dared to think

Teresia Mbari Hinga, who died March 31, was a theologian and a human being who embodied Spirit-centered paradoxes and called the academy, church and world to take seriously the transformative power of conversion.

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