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June 2018

June 29, 2018
Surely you know all things, since you are no-thing. You are, and all else needs...

May 2018

May 14, 2018
I was in the full arrogance of youth, and I wrote a poem. A friend...
May 05, 2018
  I think I died that day. I didn’t die, not really - but I...

March 2018

March 12, 2018
Anger against another person, Jesus says, is liable to judgment (Mt 5:22). What happens in...

August 2017

August 15, 2017
I have a ridiculously hard time praying. I probably feel like most people, who, "Instead...
August 01, 2017
There is a difference between having a will and the ability to use it. Mostly...

May 2017

May 27, 2017
And so you leave our hallways, students. I can you see you up ahead of...
May 12, 2017
I'm not sure I knew I had a sense of humor until maybe after high...

April 2017

April 04, 2017
"At dinner time," Gregory the Great writes of Saint Benedict, "a raven daily used to come...

March 2017

March 07, 2017
The other day I had to explain to my therapist what the Carolingian Renaissance is....

February 2017

February 16, 2017
Every Catholic feels like they're a strange kind of Catholic, I think. No one is...

January 2017

January 11, 2017
Something I loved about Rogue One was how haunted by the Jedi that universe is,...

December 2016

December 27, 2016
The other day, I saw a brief .gif of a little hedgehog lying on his...

November 2016

November 26, 2016
We like victors. We like survivors. We like those who have endured darkness, and came...
November 18, 2016
One of the cases that broke open the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in...
November 11, 2016
Much of my work in the scholarly world lately has focused on the theme of...
November 09, 2016
"We are the hollow men," writes T.S. Eliot. "We are the hollow men / Leaning...
November 05, 2016
What I resent most deeply about the "right to die" movement is that it sounds...

October 2016

October 29, 2016
"I'm just not getting anything out of this class." I've seen the thought on students'...
October 23, 2016
I have no memory of what it is like to be unaware of my own...

September 2016

September 30, 2016
I am writing this to help my students, and I thought I'd share: The Mass...
September 23, 2016
For whatever reason, I always thought I had to live up to the extreme and...

August 2016

August 30, 2016
I keep reminding myself, sometimes every hour of every day: forgiveness takes time. Forgiveness is...

July 2016

July 25, 2016
The following is an excerpt from Harry Crews's essay, "Fathers, Sons, Blood." --- I picked...
July 16, 2016
What follows is an excerpt from Hans Urs von Balthasar's Bernanos: An Ecclesial Existence. --- But...

June 2016

June 25, 2016
Metaxu. The between. It's an idea from philosophy, ancient and modern. It as an attempt...
June 14, 2016
I don't much like explaining why I am a Catholic. As if I made some...

May 2016

May 29, 2016
So, I wrote this book called Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art...
May 24, 2016
We live in a modern word that bears very modern interests, and theology - well - isn't. It...
May 06, 2016
That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!)...
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