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Works by Tim Muldoon
A Post-Tinder Spirituality of Sex
Tim Muldoon | October 07, 2016
A true spirituality of sex is fundamentally contemplative: a long, loving look at the......
FAQ: The Pope in America
Tim Muldoon | September 16, 2015
From general to really specific, here are eleven Pope Francis facts!...
Watching the Birds: Catholicism's New Missionary Era
Tim Muldoon | July 15, 2015
The cultural expressions of ritual can sometimes overshadow what is fundamentally an......
The Gospel of the Family, Part 2
Tim Muldoon | July 03, 2014
The new working document (Instrumentum Laboris) that anticipates the 2015 Vatican synod......
The Gospel of the Family, Part 1
Tim Muldoon | July 02, 2014
As we consider the new working document (Instrumentum Laboris) anticipating the synod,......
A Culture of Priestly Vocation on Campus
Tim Muldoon | June 22, 2014
A culture that fosters priestly vocations is also likely to foster discernment to all......
What Is Catholic Theology?
Tim Muldoon | June 09, 2014
The annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America kindled big questions......
Who Proceeds from the Father and the Son
Tim Muldoon | December 08, 2013
The Nicene Creed is a revelation of the Trinity and a call to love....
I Believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life
Tim Muldoon | October 14, 2013
Our good intentions fall short when we get in the way of the big picture....
His Kingdom Will Have No End
Tim Muldoon | September 19, 2013
Our hope for this kingdom is what stirs us toward anything that is good and noble....
He Will Come Again In Glory to Judge the Living and the...
Tim Muldoon | August 20, 2013
We say it in the Creed, but what does it mean?...
He Ascended into Heaven and Is Seated at the Right Hand of...
Tim Muldoon | July 30, 2013
In conquering death Jesus has conquered fear of all the terrible consequences we imagine......
In Accordance with the Scriptures
Tim Muldoon | June 13, 2013
What did the Old Testament say about the resurrection of Christ?...
He Rose Again on the Third Day
Tim Muldoon | May 30, 2013
Entering into the small deaths of ordinary human suffering is rather like surfing a......
He Suffered Death and Was Buried
Tim Muldoon | May 08, 2013
Something strange is going on here. God was born. God...died?...
For Our Sake He Was Crucified Under Pontius Pilate
Tim Muldoon | May 01, 2013
Why for our sake? To free us from false desire and the violence that grows from it....
By the Holy Spirit, Was Incarnate of the Virgin Mary and...
Tim Muldoon | April 09, 2013
Mary cooperates in the work of the incarnation; she is an active participant in bringing......
For Us and For Our Salvation He Came Down From Heaven
Tim Muldoon | March 26, 2013
He became one of us in order that he might save us....
This Ignatian Franciscan Pope
Tim Muldoon | March 13, 2013
What will a church look like that dedicates its energies to serving Christ's poor? My......
Through Him All Things Were Made
Tim Muldoon | February 21, 2013
God can never be absent from the world any more than an artist can be absent from her......
Born of the Father Before All Ages
Tim Muldoon | February 12, 2013
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made,......
Who's on First? The Only Begotten Son of God
Tim Muldoon | January 28, 2013
If you think Trinitarian formulae too much like insider-baseball, here is the breakdown....
I Believe in One Lord Jesus Christ
Tim Muldoon | January 03, 2013
In professing that I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, I profess a love that is born in......
Of All Things Visible and Invisible
Tim Muldoon | November 26, 2012
Discover your real self, then give it away....
Maker of Heaven and Earth
Tim Muldoon | November 07, 2012
The work of two modern scientists suggests a way forward in considering how we think......
The Father Almighty
Tim Muldoon | October 23, 2012
Why do Christians today continue to call God "Father," especially in light of feminist......
I Believe In One God
Tim Muldoon | October 10, 2012
Theologian Tim Muldoon on faith as an act of the intelligence....
The McDonaldization of Sex 5: Sacred Sex (Sex and...
Tim Muldoon | July 04, 2012
Is it possible that eschewing temporary experiences of sex in favor of a lifelong......
The McDonaldization of Sex 4: Organic Sex (Sex and...
Tim Muldoon | June 21, 2012
Like the ecological movement, the movement against contraception is rooted in a vision......
The McDonaldization of Sex 3: Serving Bad Men
Tim Muldoon | June 18, 2012
A contraceptive society cheapens sex, serves the interests of bad men, and ultimately......
The McDonaldization of Sex 2 (Sex and Christianity 11)
Tim Muldoon | June 11, 2012
Who loses the most when sexual transactions are cheap and abundant? Women....
The McDonaldization of Sex 1 (Sex and Christianity 10)
Tim Muldoon | June 06, 2012
We are having more orgasms, but we are losing the ability to love each other in ways......
God the ever-greater one: Stop wrestling
Tim Muldoon | April 26, 2012
We pray not because we think it's a good idea, but because prayer works. We don't......
The Myth of Sex: Sex and Christianity 9
Tim Muldoon | March 05, 2012
This is the myth of all myths: that people could use each other and still remember what......
March for Love
Tim Muldoon | January 24, 2012
Abortion is an interruption of the potential for love....
Back from Beige: Welcome to the Liturgy
Tim Muldoon | November 28, 2011
Liturgy challenges us to see the world as the place where God's kingdom is unfolding......
For Freedom, Christ Set Us Free
Tim Muldoon | November 15, 2011
Our pressing moral and political issues are all rooted in the way we understand freedom.......
Sexual Revolution 2.0: Sex and Christianity 8
Tim Muldoon | November 08, 2011
Sexual Revolution 2.0 must be rooted in the truth of persons and not the cravings of......
What Is an Economy? Understanding Rome's Radical Call
Tim Muldoon | October 31, 2011
The Vatican's Note on economics cites "the primacy of being over having and of ethics......
SlutWalkers, Occupiers, and Idiots
Tim Muldoon | October 24, 2011
Both Slutwalk and OWS idiots highlight the need for institutional commitments to......
The Evolution of Organic Sex: Sex and Christianity 7
Tim Muldoon | October 17, 2011
We may be having lots of great (for now) sex, but our relationships are terrible.......
Sex and Consumption: Sex and Christianity, Part 6
Tim Muldoon | October 10, 2011
Madison Avenue is playing us all, but the ancients understood that if you reclaim the......
Catholics and Killing
Tim Muldoon | October 03, 2011
The safest moral course demands strong prohibitions against violations of human life,......
What is Catholicism?
Tim Muldoon | September 26, 2011
Catholic faith flourishes not because of historical and cultural momentum, but because......
Why Are Catholics Obsessed With Sex?: Sex and...
Tim Muldoon | September 19, 2011
Both faith and sexual desire arise from places in the heart that can neither be named......
Remembering the Dead Is an Act of Faith
Tim Muldoon | September 12, 2011
To remember the dead is to acknowledge the coexistence of pain and love. ...
The Good Society
Tim Muldoon | September 06, 2011
As classes resume, a look at the foundational question of every good society: what is......
Water or Ash: God in the Storm
Tim Muldoon | August 29, 2011
Too often in the West, it takes a catastrophe to get us thinking about how much we need......
Masters of Suspicion and a Million Soul Mass
Tim Muldoon | August 22, 2011
No Marx, no Nietzsche, no Freud can theorize his way into the hearts of young people the......
Saved in Hope: A World Youth Day Pilgrimage
Tim Muldoon | August 15, 2011
In our pilgrimage to World Youth Day, we seek a deeper and a greater hope -- one that......
My Kind of Feminism: Sex and Christianity, Part 4
Tim Muldoon | August 01, 2011
How to "ensure equality" is the wrong question. The right question is "How can we ensure......
Two Sexual myths: Sex and Christianity, part 3
Tim Muldoon | July 25, 2011
Sex among human beings is mostly imagination and only partly biology, so the way we......
The Sexual Divide: Sex and Christianity, Part 2
Tim Muldoon | July 18, 2011
Sex is never a private issue. When people believe that intimacy has no implication for......
Sex and Christianity, Part I
Tim Muldoon | July 11, 2011
Exploring the authentic discernment of desire means recognizing that not all kinds of......
"Pacem in Terris": The Church Is Neither Republican Nor...
Tim Muldoon | July 04, 2011
In honor of the U.S. Independence Day, an encyclical challenges mature Catholics to......
On Gay Marriage: Rights and Consequences
Tim Muldoon | June 27, 2011
Christians must be part of the legal argument about gay marriage. But we must do it by......
College Sex, Drinking, and Friendship
Tim Muldoon | June 20, 2011
What makes college life today so depressing for many is not just the drinking and the......
Ten Questions for the 2012 Campaign
Tim Muldoon | June 13, 2011
Ten important questions of politicians that demand attention from Catholics, and......
Violence and Love in the Church
Tim Muldoon | June 06, 2011
Hearing "no" from the Church can feel like a kind of violence . . . The paradox and......
Surprised by Love
Tim Muldoon | May 30, 2011
Saint-Exupery wrote: "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking......
The Perfect Pill?
Tim Muldoon | May 23, 2011
Imagine, for a moment, scientists inventing the Perfect Diet Pill that enabled people to......
Gay Marriage and the Gamaliel Moment
Tim Muldoon | May 16, 2011
On gay marriage, Christians may have to look to scripture and Gamaliel's advice,......
Fighting Gay Marriage Is a Lost Cause
Tim Muldoon | May 11, 2011
For Catholics, the key opposition is not to homosexuality, but to the social acceptance......
Where would Dante or Rob Bell, or You, put Bin Laden?
Tim Muldoon | May 09, 2011
Where Did Osama Go After Death? I prefer to think of his fate in Dantean terms: in......
An Appetite for Hope
Tim Muldoon | May 02, 2011
Two historic events of the past week, namely the royal wedding and the beatification of......
Why Jesus Rose
Tim Muldoon | April 25, 2011
In the new dawn of the Risen Christ, our past enthrallments are shown as empty.......
Radical Culture: The Logic of Easter
Tim Muldoon | April 25, 2011
There is nothing more radical than a committed Christian applying thoughtfulness and......
The Honesty of the Empty Tomb
Tim Muldoon | April 18, 2011
The death and resurrection of God is a mystery so impossible it can only be true.......
Friendship and the Language of Sex
Tim Muldoon | April 11, 2011
Sarah's parents want Sarah and Tobiah to have sex. They want Sarah to be free of her......
Getting to Faith Means Meeting Halfway
Tim Muldoon | April 11, 2011
Clearly some people do create gods in their image, but in the writer's experience, God......
Man of Sorrows
Tim Muldoon | April 04, 2011
The man of sorrow beckons: yes, suffering and death are real and they hurt, but they are......
Power of Faith, Faith in Powers: Reflections on "Of Gods...
Tim Muldoon | March 28, 2011
"Of Gods and Men" manages to manages to show that, more than religion, the thirst for......
Teaching Grace
Tim Muldoon | March 22, 2011
Ours is indeed a strange way, but only because the world we live in is strange. Sanity......
God and Tsunamis
Tim Muldoon | March 15, 2011
What if tsunamis are a reminder that human beings really must recognize that our lives......
Fasting from Technology
Tim Muldoon | March 08, 2011
Fasting from technology throughout the whole of Lent might be daunting, but could you do......
Sex and the Anti-Economics of Love
Tim Muldoon | March 01, 2011
If sex is a low-trading commodity, society is diminished. There's a massive, gaping hole......
What Freedom Looks Like
Tim Muldoon | February 22, 2011
The desire for human freedom is written into the human heart, and it is a catalyst for......
Faltering and Leading: A Response to David French
Tim Muldoon | February 15, 2011
Catholic theologian Tim Muldoon responds to David French on the "faltering" of......
Valentine's Day and the Feeling of Loving
Tim Muldoon | February 08, 2011
Seeking to satisfy a desire may be the beginning of love, but real love grows only when......
A President's Vision: John Garvey at CUA
Tim Muldoon | February 08, 2011
The newly-installed president of the Catholic University of America defends Catholic......
Why the Bowl Is Super: The Forward Pass of Dreams
Tim Muldoon | February 01, 2011
The Super Bowl is only about "men who are good at throwing and catching balls and......
Imagining a Nation without Abortion
Tim Muldoon | January 25, 2011
Theologian Tim Muldoon considers the social mindsets and cultural understandings that......
From Aquinas to King: Violence, Civil Rights, and Natural...
Tim Muldoon | January 18, 2011
The key question is why do we care about each other in the first place? Why do we......
The Future of Religious Violence
Tim Muldoon | January 11, 2011
The great challenge will be to name the extremist elements of our traditions and to draw......
Emmanuel: Screaming the Story Down the Centuries
Tim Muldoon | January 04, 2011
Understanding "God with us" means basing a faith not naively on the stories themselves,......
No Silence, Please, We're American
Tim Muldoon | December 28, 2010
Silence is, therefore, a primordial act of faith, a willingness to suspend disbelief for......
Twenty first Century Tolerance
Tim Muldoon | December 21, 2010
Only where faith is allowed to thrive can it mature, enter into dialogue with others,......
What IVF Does Not Heal
Tim Muldoon | December 14, 2010
IVF represents a false promise: it does not heal, nor does it serve the greater good of......
Art for Art's Sake
Tim Muldoon | December 07, 2010
All art draws meaning from the fact that it is embedded within a long conversation about......
What Consumes You?
Tim Muldoon | November 30, 2010
My invitation to fellow Christians, to Jews, to Muslims, to people of other faiths, and......
Culture at the Crossroads
Tim Muldoon | November 23, 2010
If culture is about real community, then, there is a certain theology here, a certain......
Mysticism and the Community
Tim Muldoon | July 19, 2010
Tomorrow's Catholic Church will be a communion of mystics who see their task as rooted......
What Is Sex For?
Tim Muldoon | April 13, 2010
It's time for a bigger message, a more hopeful message, a message that invites people to......
