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February 2015

February 28, 2015
"Killing Hope in Putin's Russia" could be one of the most depressing reads of the...
February 27, 2015
I was recently reminded of a quip in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. His character says: I...
February 26, 2015
Lent is the seasons of going off into the desert and facing temptation. In the...
February 25, 2015
My initial reflections upon Ida concentrated upon the historical context of the film, about what...
February 24, 2015
Death Comes for the Deconstructionist lays out the set of confounding problems facing us in the...
February 23, 2015
Great art always shows you more than you are prepared to see. While watching Ida...
February 21, 2015
An excerpt from Archbishop Sartain's A Lenten Pilgrimage that hits all the right notes: Every Lent...
February 20, 2015
Poetry is meant to be performed out loud, just like the liturgy—the connection between these...
February 19, 2015
This post might be labeled "comedy," but it's serious. Its seriousness flows from a frivolous...
February 18, 2015
Scorsese caught a lot of flack for The Wolf of Wall Street. The critics said...
February 17, 2015
Networking is not reserved to the the internet. If there is one lesson to take...
February 16, 2015
If developing a challenging reading regiment is part of your Lent practice, then you are in...
February 14, 2015
I was elected the education director of the University of Washington Newman Center in the...
February 13, 2015
I've been catching up on reading of late. It's part of my effort to deepen...
February 12, 2015
On this Valentine's Day I'd like to remind you that Catholicism is creepy. Yesterday afternoon I...
February 10, 2015
Obama seems to finally have reached that most amusing point in a two-term presidency: The...
February 09, 2015
One of my favorite pieces of spiritual advice comes from Herbert McCabe's God, Christ, and...
February 06, 2015
  That's one heck of a question, isn't it? The BBC documentary at the bottom...
February 05, 2015
The everyday ramifications of reading are a constant preoccupation of mine. I like to believe...
February 04, 2015
The season of Lent is almost upon us. We are traditionally invited to practice ascesis. That...
February 03, 2015
The Hitchens family is well known for its missionary positions. Christopher Hitchens was so hellbent...
February 02, 2015
  Wait for it, wait for it, wait like for Godot . . . ....

January 2015

January 31, 2015
It is fashionable to dump upon Thomas Merton. He seems to have been too open...
January 30, 2015
The Republican dropping of abortion into the political dumpster put the failure of the Pro-Life...
January 29, 2015
If you hang around enough weird overeducated people, then you've probably heard the phrase "He's...
January 28, 2015
The Holocaust is inextricably tied to memory through maxims such as: Emil Fackenheim's "Never forget" and...
January 27, 2015
As great as John Milbank is, there are plenty of other great things going on...
January 25, 2015
Dominique Janicaud has spent the great part of his academic career attempting to somewhat belligerently...
January 22, 2015
The problem of representation is one of the key issues of modern philosophy. It ranges...
January 21, 2015
Gerard Russell's Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East should...
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