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July 17, 2020
Jumping out of the Flying Ship: Resisting False Traditionalism
I was planning to write a blog post, or possibly a series, on "cancel...
July 13, 2020
But it’s not modern
Nearly ten years ago, when I lived in Huntington Indiana, I volunteered to read to...
July 08, 2020
God and the gods: will the real monotheism stand up?
My Patheos colleague "Fellow Dying Inmate" has been writing a fascinating series of posts on...
July 05, 2020
A Very Decent Sort of Horse, On the Whole
In April 2009, English journalist Edward Luce asked President Barack Obama if he believed in...
June 2020
June 28, 2020
Keeping Our Balance on Slippery Slopes
First, they came for the Confederate statues. But it didn't stop there. Soon, the "woke"...
June 23, 2020
The Lure of the New, the Tug of the Old
Most of the arguments I get into on Facebook are about theology or politics. And...
June 13, 2020
The Warlord You See Is the Warlord You Are
Last Monday, police withdrew from six blocks of Seattle's "Capitol Hill" neighborhood, abandoning the area...
June 05, 2020
Black Lives Matter: In Defense of Shibboleths
It seems to be remarkably hard for many white conservative Christians to affirm the slogan...
May 2020
May 27, 2020
Ascension and the Pandemic
This past Sunday, many American Catholics celebrated the Ascension of the Lord into heaven. The...
May 20, 2020
My Search for the Perfect Church
Welcome to this new Patheos blog, Light in the West! As you can see from...
December 2018
December 31, 2018
It’s a Wonderful Life: defending eucatastrophe
(Image attribution: still from It's A Wonderful Life, National Telefilm Associates, public domain) It's a...
October 2018
October 31, 2018
Reformation day revisited, from the other side of the Tiber
Three years ago, I wrote this rather polemical piece attacking the celebration of "Reformation Day"...
October 21, 2018
Honest apostasy vs. faithful dissent
Every so often one hears conservative Catholics (or conservative Christians generally) say that people whom...
October 07, 2018
An alternate history scenario for supporters of Brett Kavanaugh
Consider the following tale from another timeline:It was sometime during the presidency of Barack Obama....
June 2018
June 28, 2018
The American Solidarity Party: still very much alive
The political party to which I belong, the American Solidarity Party, has been going through...
March 2018
March 26, 2018
The much-heralded death of European Christianity
The Daily Mail announces breathlessly that "Christianity in Europe is dying out." This is just...
March 25, 2018
The Last Jedi: a defense and explication (lots of spoilers)
In this post, I'm going to lay out what I think the film The Last...
December 2017
December 16, 2017
Star Wars movie review–but not the one you expect
I've been working on a series of blog posts on Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation,...
December 10, 2017
Brad Gregory–Excluding God, or, It’s all the fault of Duns Scotus
(image: public domain)Chapter One of The Unintended Reformation is probably the most often cited. Indeed, many...
December 03, 2017
Silence
Several weeks ago, I finally watched Martin Scorsese's film Silence. Given the title and the...
November 2017
November 01, 2017
An appreciation of the Reformation
As usual, I'd meant to have posted more on the Reformation leading up to the...
October 2017
October 22, 2017
The Unintended Reformation, part 1
I have been meaning for some time to write a review of Brad Gregory's The...
October 20, 2017
Saving the embryos: a new variation on the “trolley problem”
My friend David Schell has asked me (and several other prolifers he knows) to respond...
October 08, 2017
Celebrating the Reformation: a reply to Sarah Condon
The Episcopal priest Sarah Condon has just written a defiant blog post expressing her frustration...
October 07, 2017
High and Low
High and Low is a 1963 movie by Akira Kurosawa which I saw a few...
September 2017
September 17, 2017
The Lives of Others
In a key scene from the 2006 German movie The Lives of Others, the playwright...
September 13, 2017
Dear Protestants, Here’s Why I Didn’t Sign the Reforming Catholic Confession, and Other Dispatches From Living Among Catholics as a Protestant Priest
My wife said yesterday, "I'd like to post this on my blog, but it isn't...
May 2017
May 12, 2017
How mere Christianity made me a Catholic
For many years now, the main rival to Catholicism for me has been the concept...
April 2017
April 27, 2017
Why we need the words “conservative” and “liberal”
One often hears people say that the labels "conservative" and "liberal" aren't helpful and we...
April 11, 2017
“Missing out”: why helicopter parenting commodifies children
A friend of mine just posted on Facebook an incident in which someone berated her...
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