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March 2019

March 20, 2019
A debate has been unfolding in the (digital) pages of Church Life Journal: Troutner v....
March 19, 2019
First and foremost, we must pray for the victims, their families, and the assailants themselves....

December 2018

December 26, 2018
The “Left” in my title is indeed political, though one could also take in the...
December 23, 2018
This semester I taught “The Bible as Literature” (or, I should really say, I had...
December 22, 2018
I don’t mean to invoke the United States in my title—as much as many people...

August 2018

August 07, 2018
This is a tough piece to write. Not because I am ashamed of being Byzantine...
August 03, 2018
“Suppose you were to see a man who had been justly condemned being led to...

July 2018

July 25, 2018
“No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a...
July 24, 2018
Paul J. Griffiths has a recent piece on work, worship, and leisure. The first two...
July 18, 2018
Steny Hoyer says that Donald Trump committed treason in Helsinki. That’s an odd sentence, but,...
July 08, 2018
  The following is a reflection by a dear friend of mine, Nathan Smolin, who...
July 06, 2018
Did Trump win because of the dissatisfaction of the working class? Some say “yea”; some...

June 2018

June 18, 2018
“A dog is better than I am, for he has love and he does not...
June 14, 2018
In a piece entitled “Dorothy Day: The Model You Want,” a friend once wrote: I...

May 2018

May 23, 2018
  The following is an interview with a dear friend (a writer and, dare I...
May 22, 2018
  The following was written by my dear friend, Nathan Smolin, a PhD student in...
May 16, 2018
Bishop Tobin of Providence is in the news for a recent tweet about the Catholic...
May 15, 2018
I have spent some time lately reflecting on particular words—a short phrase really. Brevity brings...
May 14, 2018
Pope Francis has become notorious for (among other things) his comments on “rigid” Catholics. Unsurprisingly,...
May 02, 2018
I recently saw someone break American Catholics down into two categories: liberal and conservative. The...
May 02, 2018
At this point, “Gnosticism” is as much an accusation as a philosophy, a way anyone...
May 01, 2018
May First means many things. In England, it means May Poles and dancing.  For Latin...

April 2018

April 17, 2018
How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing...
April 12, 2018
“Materialism” is said in many ways, almost all bad according to contemporary Christians. Sometimes it...

March 2018

March 22, 2018
Here, by “Eastern Christianity” I mean mostly “Byzantine Christianity,” what most people know through Eastern...
March 21, 2018
I’ve been thinking about this word a lot recently, in part because we read The...
March 20, 2018
I encounter this all the time. One man’s “righteous zeal” seems to another an unjust...
March 19, 2018
It’s no secret that I love Dorothy Day. She has helped me make sense of...

January 2018

January 16, 2018
Journalist: What about your intellectual and cultural journey? Althusser: I encountered two men. The first...
January 11, 2018
  No, not the pope, but the friar. St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the...
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