Elizabeth Scalia
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2012
In 2009 Ignatius press released this prophetic little volume, written by our pope over 1969-1970 — while the world was in the first throes of the social revolution. I thought I’d share a few of Joseph Ratzinger’s prescient thoughts. They seem timely: “The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2012
So, my first simple book giveaway has yielded three winners…which is good, because I only have three books! And the winners — totally drawn at random by Patheos employees at the home office — are: KathyJ — Bob Hostetler — Debbie Whitney Come on down! You’ve just won copies of Paula Huston’s excellent Simplifying the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2012
Simcha Fisher is doing a book give-away, and it’s a book I completely and utterly want to read! And that reminds me: as the Patheos Book Club winds down its look at Paula Huston’s Simplifying the Soul, they’re giving me three copies to give away myself. We’ll keep it simple, because I like simple! In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 24th, 2012
Over at Christopher Closeup, Tony Rossi debuts his first podcast since coming to Patheos, and it’s a stunner! Journalist Rita Cosby, talks to Tony about her father, whose mysterious past had colored her world from an early age; it is one gripping interview! It was Christmas Eve, 1983, when the future Emmy Award-winning journalist and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2012
Two Tebow pieces of interest to Tebow fans: First up, Joseph Bottum, who made a big hit with his Christmas-themed Amazon Single (a short ebook) Dakota Christmas, has published another one, this time on Tebow: The Gospel According to Tim: Believe in him, I mean: believe that he’s for real. The young man is drunk [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2012
In one of those happy synchronicities, my column at First Things this week appears to play right into the hands of the Patheos Book Club. Allow me to explain. Over at First Things, I chronicle the existential agida I am experiencing over how my husband’s pack-rat instincts overwhelm my need to throw things away, and [...]
Posted in Merton, Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2012
God has all the essential characteristics of what we mean by a “person,” in particular conscious awareness, the ability to recognize and the ability to love. In that sense he is someone who can speak and who can listen. That, I think, is what is essential about God. Nature can be marvelous. The starry heaven [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2012
My elder son, the dreamy quiet planet, has the most curious mind I’ve ever encountered. He never rejects an idea outright–first he acquaints himself with who and what is behind the idea and then finds out who influenced their thinking and he checks them out too. He will swim in the seas of an idea [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2012
“One has never achieved complete faith. Faith has to be lived again and again in life and in suffering, as well as in the great joys that God sends us. It is never something that I can put in my pocket like a coin . . . The essence of faith is that I do [...]
Posted in Faith and Reason, Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2012
Faith is not the resignation of reason in view of the limits of our knowledge; it is not a retreat into the irrational in view of the dangers of a merely instrumental reason. Faith is not the expression of weariness and flight but is courage to exist and an awakening to the greatness and breadth [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer.
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