It would be wrong of me to identify as “depressed.” For one, I’ve never been diagnosed. Frankly, unless things were to get impossibly bad, I’m resistant to the idea of what I see as medicalizing a variable and temporary condition (I wouldn’t describe my “depressiveness” as clinical). In my eyes, and in the eyes of [Read More…]
What Is Love?
July 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Popular discourse divides the rhetoric of love into two possibilities. [Read more…]
An Interview with Yours Truly on NPR
July 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been off at “theory camp” for the past few weeks, which, unfortunately has slowed down my blogging (not to mention the 150 or so books I have to read for my exams this fall!). While I find more time to get back in touch with you lovely readers, I thought I’d share this—an interview [Read More…]
If the Church Condemns Socialism, She Condemns Modern Conservatism
June 26, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Liberalism carries with it specific discourses… [Read more…]
Christianity, Conspiracy Theory, Evil
June 21, 2017 by Leave a Comment
What is the relationship between American Christians and conspiracy theories anyway? [Read more…]
A Byzantine Morning Prayer
June 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Would that my prayer life were not so tumultuous. All too often I oscillate between regulated piety and spiritual sloth, an inability to do more than utter a “thank you” to God as the day begins and ends. Of late, however, I’ve been blessed to have looked back into my Pocket Prayer Book for Orthodox [Read More…]
Humility and Joy, Joy and Humility
June 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
I made the last-chance Mass, as I believe they call it. I wandered in around 7PM to find the church unexpectedly full. [Read more…]
Catholicism and Marx: An Introduction
June 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Catholic readers found an ally in Marx because he was interested in many of the same questions they were. [Read more…]
Nostalgia: Enemy of Christianity
June 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia—these days a common thing. My father re-watches Smokey and the Bandit, pining simultaneously for a culture and place he has never really known (smuggling, the American South) and for whomever he was in 1977, younger, with more hair. I myself feel it in the way many “90s kids” do: in the form [Read More…]
The Fatal Flaw in the Pro-Life Movement
June 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
There’s been a good deal of talk about the Pro-Life Movement recently, specifically how it has failed. [Read more…]
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