Here’s what’s not weak this week! 1. Family Synod Conflict Is Not What You Think It Is . . . 2. Ocean Symphony, Breeze, & a Liturgy: Sam Rocha’s Folk Interview 3. Catholic Gore Galore on the Synod’s Sidelines 4. Holy Fire & Brimstone! Archaeologists Unearth Sodom? 5. Fresh Caught Fish II: Top 10 Living Religious Novelists 6. No Bible? Fine. No Liturgy? No Christianity. 7. What Do the Popes Truly Say About Socialism? 8. The Newest News on the Authenticity... Read more
In my worst moments I am temped to promulgate a #SynodSitIN by the power of my personal Magisterium against the #SynodWalkout quitters. However, I promised to not dig around in all the Synod trash that’s circulating. Yet, this does not preclude me from propagating sane expert analysis, especially when the cray-cray of the #SynodWalkout tends to confuse things even more than they already are. What follows is a guest post from Chris Johnson originally featured on his blog. ============= Chris... Read more
Sam Rocha is my dear friend. Besides that he is also Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of British Columbia. He is author of A Primer for the Philosophy and Education (Cascade Books, 2014) and the recently released Folk Phenomenology (Pickwick Publications, 2015). This interview probes the guts of Folk Phenomenology. ======================================== Artur Rosman: What, if anything, distinguishes your Folk Phenomenology from phenomenology itself? Is it an inflection of the regular phenomenological method? or a whole new way... Read more
If you are in Seattle, you’ll want to check out the following events tomorrow (October 15th) at SPU and the University of Washington: Theology Between Art and the Body: Reimagining Our Future Featuring Willie James Jennings, PhD, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies, Yale University One of the foremost scholars of race and theology, Dr. Jennings is the recipient of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award for his work The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. He recently joined... Read more
There are historically significant happenings you might be missing while you obsess about the fabulous doomsday ejaculations of writers such as Damian Thompson who leads this week with the subtly phrased title, THIS WEEK THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS IN CHAOS. AND POPE FRANCIS IS TO BLAME. His unquotable stream-of-consciousness prose cuts way into conspiracy theory territory. He makes Jeremiah sound like a paragon of mental health. I mean, what’s going on here? Is Damian Thompson trying to put Chick Tracts out of business? Why... Read more
I’ve promised I’ll keep away from commenting upon the Synod on the Family through my Cradle Catholic Open Letter. I’m not about to break my promise. My stance is still firmly: We’re the laity, you do your own thing Synod Fathers. Call us when you’re done. As a result, I have to swim down for other bloggish tributaries since I’ve cut off this avenue of delicious intrigue and discussion. Let’s start with Gerard Nadal. He is frequently too ideologically Republican... Read more
Here’s what’s not weak this week. The following are the TOP10 trending posts on Cosmos: 1. Polish Gay Prelate Charamsa Sells Out Both Catholicism & Gay Rights 2. EXCLUSIVE: Kenneth L. Woodward’s Rapid-Fire Reflections on Francis in America 3. What Do the Popes Truly Say About Socialism? 4. 15 Books I’d Ban for Banned Books Week 5. Cradle Catholic Open Letter: Stop Protestant-splaining #Synod15! 6. Newton’s Apple and Other Myths About Science 7. No Bible? Fine. No Liturgy? No Christianity.... Read more
St. Augustine’s Press is probably familiar to you as a publisher of both new books, and reprints of old favorites like Camus’s Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism. This fall brings another fine reprint title, yet another old French favorite. The novel in question has been out of print for so long that it’s skipped a generation or two of awareness. I’m talking about Leon Bloy’s immensely influential novel The Woman Who Was Poor. Its influence alone makes it the reprint of the... Read more
For some of you the sentiments of the title for this piece might be as crooked as a Frank Gehry building. Yet, there are historical and theological nuggets of wisdom hidden there. Admittedly, it is another opportunity to scandalize our Protestant brethren and the bibliolatrous tendencies of American Catholics. As far as the latter go, I’m thinking those paragons of Evangelical Catholicism who might freak out upon reading this title and reassert that “CATHOLICS DO READ THE BIBLE! [yeah right],” or recommend... Read more
The letter and overly-earnest essay are the order of the day for apocalyptic-Protestant panicking about the Synod on the Family. Open letters have cropped up all over the place. The left wants to change everything to fit the Charamsa-mold. Whereas, the right has oddly enlisted both Protestants and former Protestants for their version of Cafeteria Catholicism. The latter is more interesting, because the left’s complaints and proposals are so stale and routine they write themselves. The right, on the other... Read more
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