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November 2020

November 13, 2020
I spent the last couple of weeks preparing for my new podcast (Gerizim—check it out...

July 2020

July 11, 2020
The Hagia Sophia is back in the news—this time because Turkey’s Supreme Court ruled that...

May 2020

May 07, 2020
On Wednesday, two customers in an Oklahoma City McDonald's shot at employees. They were not...
May 04, 2020
As with many things we talk about, American discussions of COVID-19 seem limited, limited to...

April 2020

April 07, 2020
Teaching has brought me back to Nietzsche once again. This is always a revivifying process,...

February 2020

February 14, 2020
A student followed me out of class the other day; he couldn’t believe that I,...
February 07, 2020
America Magazine is reporting a victory for religious liberty. In essence, an appeals court ruled...
February 03, 2020
This is the second post in a series I am writing called “Living Saints.” It...

January 2020

January 23, 2020
It’s winter again and I should have far more of my dissertation submitted than I...
January 22, 2020
Many are self-professedly “progressive,” but default to moderate policies because, as they say, the world...
January 21, 2020
It is, at this point, a truism that the Middle Ages fascinate the American Alt-Right....

December 2019

December 10, 2019
Life is hard. Everyday we wake up and do it again, coffee in hand moments...
December 05, 2019
Poetry began my love affair with literature. Discovering Donne, seeing the ways in which language...
December 04, 2019
It’s weird to be a young man in times deemed “frightening” or “aberrant.” Does the...

November 2019

November 14, 2019
If Catholicism came to Latin America with conquistadors, evangelicalism has found its way southward through...
November 12, 2019
For it is the Church that gives birth to all, either within her pale, of her own...
November 04, 2019
I am in the midst of writing a dissertation. This often (including in my case)...

October 2019

October 29, 2019
I am a Slovak-American. This means I care about something that, I imagine, fairly few...
October 28, 2019
It is here and He is risen. Kanye West’s new album, Jesus is King, hit...

August 2019

August 20, 2019
As of late, I’ve seen a few discussions of modern college education on both Twitter...
August 16, 2019
Earlier, I was listening to episode six of Know Your Enemy, a podcast about Right-side...

July 2019

July 23, 2019
This is a consolidation of three posts I wrote a few years ago, re-posted in...
July 04, 2019
As a kid, I watched the History Channel special on the American Revolution every year....
July 03, 2019
Traditionalist orders and parishes are on the rise. The Dutch Dominicans are full of new...
July 02, 2019
Christianity is a communal religion; it coheres in a Church, a body of believers spiritually-...

April 2019

April 21, 2019
It is tradition in many Byzantine Churches to read from the Paschal Homily of St....
April 18, 2019
The Bad Sleep Well is my favorite film by Akira Kurosawa. As with many of...
April 15, 2019
Notre Dame is perhaps the most famous cathedral in the work. And now, it’s on...
April 11, 2019
What could this title even mean? In our day and age, “the medieval” is most...

March 2019

March 29, 2019
I’m no fan of Donald Trump. I wouldn’t say I’m in the #Resistance. My favorite...
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