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April 2016

April 08, 2016
If you haven't read Jeremy Beer's The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity,...
April 05, 2016
A. Vonn Hartung is a Puerto Rico-based artist who works across a variety of media, including...
April 04, 2016
Obviously Pope Francis thinks so. As he told the UN back in 2015: “It must be stated...
April 01, 2016
Those of you who know me know I have a few hobby horses I come...

March 2016

March 31, 2016
By Matthew Franklin Cooper On the 31st of March, we celebrate the dies natalis of...
March 30, 2016
A few years ago, my wife and I were assigned a case through our local...
March 25, 2016
Morning. 6:00 am  You never really slept last night, and now the ache is settling...
March 23, 2016
"Ah, the pain, the anguish, the sin and despair, the remorse, at not living as...
March 21, 2016
In a neighboring town I have a wonderful friend Nate who serves as pastor of...
March 18, 2016
[This post is a continuation of Paul Grenier's dialogue on torture and solidarity. The first...
March 16, 2016
Being a Patheos blogger, you understand, is a pretty cush deal. For example, the folks...
March 14, 2016
On February 25th there was another "mass shooting," this time in Hesston, Kansas, just down...
March 08, 2016
On January 25, my 52 year-old brother Paul was stricken by cardiogenic shock, a life-threatening...
March 07, 2016
We’re usually fairly serious around this blog but I want to begin by recalling one...
March 05, 2016
"It was the month of May, or the month of June, in any case summer...
March 04, 2016
By Josh Brumfield I confess I like the Benedict Option. I am attracted to the...
March 03, 2016
Our new bishop at the Diocese of Gary is a mild-mannered guy but lately he...

February 2016

February 29, 2016
Consider this more of a friendly "book recommendation" than a "review." I don't wish to outline...
February 26, 2016
I recently attended an event hosted by the Acton Institute entitled “A Gentleman’s Debate: Distributism...
February 25, 2016
The Participants Ambassador: Between stints at universities and think tanks, has enjoyed several high posts...
February 23, 2016
My friend Gerald called me about his recent trip down to Ciudad Juarez for the...
February 22, 2016
  Politics in America seems to be going off the rails. Therefore, I thought it wise...
February 19, 2016
The useless people in our society are not the poor or the unemployed. Most economic theories and...
February 18, 2016
All over the United States, poverty and homelessness have been and are being criminalized (as...
February 18, 2016
Gigantism is a condition characterized by excessive growth. In the human body, it is caused...
February 17, 2016
Gar Alperovitz, a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, is a chaired...
February 15, 2016
This started out as a post on the joy of receiving seed catalogues in deep...
February 11, 2016
Apropos of my previous outburst on the nature of contemporary work, it seems some clarification...
February 10, 2016
"Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see,...
February 09, 2016
Ivan Illich is a writer I frequently return to, not only for information and argument,...
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