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November 2014

November 01, 2014
I am going through a bit of a MacIntyre renaissance of late. I've realized the...

October 2014

October 31, 2014
Another day, another year, another Halloween, and yet another Reformation Day. Today some of us...
October 30, 2014
Ross Douthat's "The Pope and Precipice" has received plenty of attention of late. Rod Dreher...
October 29, 2014
Today I conclude my interview on the Church and Hong Kong with Dr. Justin Tse...
October 28, 2014
The feminist Sara Ruddick must be doing something right if both Alasdair MacIntyre and Janet Martin...
October 27, 2014
  Today we feature an exclusive peek ahead to the third installment of my interview...
October 23, 2014
Yesterday's post featured Alasdair MacIntyre discussing how much the philosophical tradition has ignored the dependencies...
October 22, 2014
There is nothing like the thrill of discovering a new vein of thought.  The only...
October 21, 2014
Octorber 5-11 was mental health week. You probably heard it mentioned on any of the...
October 18, 2014
In a curious reversal of the Parable of the Good Samaritan I picked up an...
October 17, 2014
This is the second installment of my interview with Dr. Justin Tse. It concentrates upon...
October 16, 2014
The Synod reporting has been nothing short of apocalyptic. And I do love it in...
October 15, 2014
Since the Synod is occupying everyone's minds, including my own, I thought I'd change things...
October 08, 2014
When grandiose Church events such as the Synod on the Family roll around I look...
October 07, 2014
After driving Dominik to kindergarten I took the girls for a spin around the block...
October 04, 2014
Wislawa Szymborska, "Travel Elegy" from Poems New and Collected Everything's mine though just on loan,...
October 03, 2014
Leading up to the coalition of the willing waging war against ISIS much noise was made about...
October 02, 2014
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the famous Walker Percy Jefferson Lecture "The San...

September 2014

September 30, 2014
    Carl Schmitt who was one of those extremely bad Catholics like Heidegger who...
September 25, 2014
Let me be clear, I can only read Matt Walsh's constant emoting one paragraph at...
September 24, 2014
There is an amusing episode recounted by the distinguished historian Tony Judt in his NYRB...
September 23, 2014
Today, as promised in last week's TOP10 novel list, we continue on my semi-autobiographical experiment in book...
September 22, 2014
The Merton Annual asked me to write a piece about the Thomas Merton - Czeslaw...
September 18, 2014
  Thinking through betrayal reminded me of Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers. It's one of those...
September 17, 2014
Yesterday we discussed Woody Allen as a liminal personality stuck somewhere between belief and disbelief. Being...
September 16, 2014
Allen’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight has not received the credit it deserves. At first glance...
September 14, 2014
It's easy to forget the Feast of the Holy Cross is a consummate Constantinian feast....
September 12, 2014
Finishing Theology of Transformation was one of those bittersweet reading moments: I was happy to...
September 11, 2014
John Zmirak's writing, while it it is not serious theology, philosophy, or economic theory, has...
September 10, 2014
The cardinal rule for writing a book is starting out strong with a memorable story,...
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