I’ve been off at “theory camp” for the past few weeks, which, unfortunately has slowed down my blogging (not to mention the 150 or so books I have to read for my exams this fall!). While I find more time to get back in touch with you lovely readers, I thought I’d share this—an interview I did recently about Marx and Catholicism on Worldview, hosted on NPR’s WBEZ Chicago (my thanks to Julian Hayda and the whole staff for the... Read more
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Would that my prayer life were not so tumultuous. All too often I oscillate between regulated piety and spiritual sloth, an inability to do more than utter a “thank you” to God as the day begins and ends. Of late, however, I’ve been blessed to have looked back into my Pocket Prayer Book for Orthodox Christians, popular among Byzantine Catholics (“Orthodox in communion with Rome”) as well as Eastern Orthodox believers. Therein, I found a lovely little prayer with which... Read more
I made the last-chance Mass, as I believe they call it. I wandered in around 7PM to find the church unexpectedly full. Read more
Catholic readers found an ally in Marx because he was interested in many of the same questions they were. Read more
Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia—these days a common thing. My father re-watches Smokey and the Bandit, pining simultaneously for a culture and place he has never really known (smuggling, the American South) and for whomever he was in 1977, younger, with more hair. I myself feel it in the way many “90s kids” do: in the form of a desire to return to childhood, to watch Rugrats and experience once more the feeling of wholeness and simplicity I knew while mindlessly absorbing... Read more
There’s been a good deal of talk about the Pro-Life Movement recently, specifically how it has failed. Read more
Refusing to say we “know” the time is central to Christianity. Read more
I did not think Donald Trump would be impeached; in a way, I still don’t. But the fact is that we’re now talking about it in earnest. Read more
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