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October 2016

October 13, 2016
Bob Dylan is one of my earliest theological influences, therefore it gladdens me to see...
October 12, 2016
When I woke up this morning, I never thought I would get caught up in...
October 08, 2016
$445,000.00 is nearly half a million dollars. Is Priests for Life budgeting almost half a...

September 2016

September 26, 2016
As I've remarked on occasion, I have social media "friends" of all kinds of political...
September 22, 2016
Damon Linker, who is best-known for defecting from First Things towards the center-left (you can...
September 14, 2016
A religion is only plausible if it tells you what to do with your genitals....
September 03, 2016
Rod Dreher has been very generous to this blog throughout the years. Cosmos has been...
September 02, 2016
Last week, I wrote a reflection on the role of discipline in the Christian life....

August 2016

August 25, 2016
The problem of violence is an inherently human problem. It is unavoidable, because violence is...
August 23, 2016
  The Pokémon phenomenon is inescapable. I might the only person who hasn't played the game...
August 21, 2016
Let despair be known as my ebb-tide; but let prayer have its springs, too, brimming,...
August 19, 2016
I have reached a point of exhaustion with politics, just as any respectably abnormal person should. The...
August 18, 2016
I am merely trying to say that there is a cultural danger inherent in any...
August 17, 2016
I write about politics again not because I have any hopes (nor fears) about what...
August 16, 2016
The West's knowledge of Islam makes Christians say dumb things about ISIS; I would venture...
August 14, 2016
Let us remember that love lives through sacrifice and is nourished by giving. Without sacrifice...
August 14, 2016
In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to...
August 07, 2016
The Weakened Edition is an opportunity for me to see and appreciate what appeals to...
August 06, 2016
If our gospel does not penetrate the veil, then the veil is on those who...
August 01, 2016
There's plenty of talk about Francis's silence during his visit to Auschwitz last week. This...

July 2016

July 31, 2016
As someone who lived in Nantes, France for nearly a year I can say that...
July 29, 2016
As a former university instructor I cannot help wondering what books I would've assigned to...
July 28, 2016
  . . . Sometimes in museums the paintings speak to me and irony suddenly vanishes....
July 26, 2016
This is a personal reflection on the work of Stanley Hauerwas in celebration of his 76th...
July 25, 2016
If I forget you, O Krakow, let my right hand wither. These are my "I'm...
July 21, 2016
"They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when...
July 20, 2016
Anyone with the slightest sensitivity…cannot fail to recognize the nature of National Socialism: naturalistic, antagonistic...
July 19, 2016
I exhort you — be zealous to do all things in harmony with God, with the...
July 18, 2016
Theology is born when the arbitrary judgment of reason encounters a limit, in that we...
July 14, 2016
I stayed out of the fray of commenting on Black Lives Matter until yesterday, because...
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