What is the relationship between American Christians and conspiracy theories anyway? Read more
What is the relationship between American Christians and conspiracy theories anyway? Read more
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
“Anarchy,” a scary word to many, doesn’t get much used in Catholic circles. It seems downright frightening, either theologically or personally—it seems to threaten longstanding traditions of justice, not to mention the personal comfort and status of the West’s largely comfortable and assimilated Catholic population. Witness, for example, the Catholic Encyclopedia: The theory of anarchy is against all reason. Apart from the fact that it runs counter to some of the most cherished instincts of humanity, as, for instance, family... Read more
Job confounds. A book in which God allows “the satan” to overwhelm a righteous man, purely to prove that Job’s righteousness and fear of God come not from God’s blessings, but instead are rooted in a respect for the creator. The premise thus seems simple enough: love God at all times; let not material and spiritual health and prosperity dictate whether or not you worship the Lord your god. After his servants are murdered, his livestock stolen, that is, his... Read more
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