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September 2014

September 02, 2014
A few points, some of them which will be necessarily polemical, en vrac: 1. We'll...

August 2014

August 30, 2014
Perhaps instead of writing a full "Summa Contra Sola Scriptura" (the first draft of which...
August 30, 2014
The Jesuit Post's Jeff Sullivan, SJ has written a nice post on the changing cultural understanding of...
August 29, 2014
I had a discussion on Twitter about Christian burials. Expecting the resurrection of the dead,...
August 29, 2014
From The Guardian's quite good (!) obituary of Elizabeth Anscombe: She was notorious for a...
August 29, 2014
Sometimes I feel like a fossil. My wife informs me I'm 28. Let me tell...
August 28, 2014
Today is the feast of Blessed Augustine, as our Eastern brethren call him. Whatever you know...
August 27, 2014
Christianity is "a set of contradictions held together by grace." The history of orthodoxy is...
August 26, 2014
At the tail end of an excellent post explaining why it's perfectly consistent for pro-lifers...
August 25, 2014
The FT has a good piece from Martin Amis pondering the mystery of the Holocaust....
August 25, 2014
Moral Foundations Theory is an effort by several psychologists, the most famous of whom being...
August 21, 2014
The startup Minerva Project to me embodies everything that is wrong about the way the Church...
August 20, 2014
As frequent readers will know I have a great admiration for the Biblical scholar N.T....
August 20, 2014
Given recent events, this seemed as appropriate as anything. I was away for a couple...
August 17, 2014
We need more theologians who love Beethoven. (We need more theologians who love Led Zeppelin!)...

July 2014

July 30, 2014
Fundamental Option Theory is the idea that people take a fundamental option for or against God,...
July 29, 2014
The generally interesting review Ethika Politika has an interview with Patrick Deneen. One of the money quotes...
July 28, 2014
To write a historical discourse is to presuppose both an objective reality and a point...
July 27, 2014
The headline popped up on my Facebook feed: "Jessa Duggar's Christian boyfriend deletes anti-Catholic Facebook...
July 26, 2014
My friend Michael Brendan Dougherty has a piece arguing against an excessively heartless rationalism that would...
July 23, 2014
"[My father] was trying to cover my three-year-old nephew with his body. They took the...
July 23, 2014
  Speaking of consequentialism, exposing me to this article arguing that Reformed Christianity provides the...
July 23, 2014
Some stray thoughts on consequentialism. Usual caveats apply: I'm thinking out loud, not making any...
July 22, 2014
Have you read that meme about how a study "showed" that people would rather receive...
July 22, 2014
  When will we finally clean house? The Archdiosese of St Paul and Minneapolis is...
July 21, 2014
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has responded to my previous post. A few points. First of all,...
July 21, 2014
As I write these lines, one of the most ancient Christian communities in the world...
July 21, 2014
  Yes, I'm late to the party. The New Atheist thing seems to be moribund...
July 17, 2014
"In the magnificent cathedral, the Honorable and Right Reverend, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before...
July 16, 2014
(The Nicene, of course.) Is it possible to say the creed too much? I find...
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