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March 2013

March 26, 2013

Writing the New Testament

My friend, and fellow podcaster, Thad recently posted this video on the history of the...

March 23, 2013

Raising Men

In the aftermath of The Steubenville rape, Ann Voskamp wrote a great article on manhood....

March 17, 2013

Does faith grow more through imagination or fortification?

I was thrilled to read this article at the New York Times, mostly because my inner...

March 16, 2013

Homosexuality, Contraceptives, and Abortion

This post is something of a cry for help that I have felt for a...

March 16, 2013

Why the Pope chose the name Francis

I was blown away by this explanation of why Pope Francis chose his name.Speaking to...

March 16, 2013

Why the Family is important

I was recently featured in this video along with president of the Catholic University of America, John...

March 15, 2013

The Personal Promise Bible: Highlighting an American Heresy

Have you seen the Personal Promise Bible? It's a Bible that you can special order...

March 15, 2013

Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer

Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer is now available on youtube. It's a great documentary...

March 14, 2013

Trinity Analogies

Hans Fiene's theological hilarity strikes again in this St. Patrick inspired video.

March 14, 2013

Top 10 reasons I am thrilled about Pope Francis

There is a new pope as you all know. I am personally VERY excited about...

March 11, 2013

Read St. Patrick in his own words

In preparation for St. Patrick's day I decided to read St. Patrick's Confessio. It's really interesting and the webpage http://www.confessio.ie/ has...

March 11, 2013

The Spirituality of Infertility

Infertility is a major theme in the scripture. In many ways it highlights many of...

March 11, 2013

Podcast Episode 17: Four Senses of Scripture

This week the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about the four...

March 08, 2013

Blessed John Paul II, Super Hero

Ran into this on Catholic Memes today. Thought it was worth sharing!I think it might...

March 08, 2013

Christian Worship as a family recipe

Although there is very little documentation available that describes how the liturgy was practiced in...

March 07, 2013

St. Paul as a master of cross-cultural terminology

A lot of the terminology that Paul employs in the New Testament is loaded with multivalent semantic fields; his words have multiple meaning depending...

March 07, 2013

Justification, Sanctification & being “Saved”

A reader recently read about my decision to join the Catholic church and wrote me a message expressing...

March 07, 2013

Spotting fake clergy in the conclave

So did you hear about the fake bishop that managed to evade security and sneak into...

March 06, 2013

Everything is spiritual (by Rob Bell)

I ran into this recording of Everything is Spiritual, a talk given by Rob Bell...

March 06, 2013

My book is now on $2.99 (for a limited time)

Just wanted to let you all know there is a special deal on my book...

March 04, 2013

Papal March Maddeness

I thought this was clever and helped give a picture of the global church represented...

March 04, 2013

Baptismal Theology and Practice in the Age of St. Thomas Aquinas

I thought this lecture by Fr. Augustine Thompson, OP at DSPT was very interesting, and was glad that...

March 03, 2013

John Cavadini’s excellent reflections on Benedict XVI and the future of the Catholic Church

John Cavadini offered some of his own thoughts on the historical situation the Catholic Church...

March 02, 2013

Podcast Episode 16: Proclaiming the Word

This week the other doctoral students on the Crossed Purposes podcast and I talk about proclaiming the...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Have a safe journey Papa Benedict

Holy father, may God bless you with every heavenly blessing and give you a safe...

February 27, 2013

Bones and Ligaments in the Liturgy

As I’ve learned to study liturgy, I have become aware that much of what can...

February 26, 2013

My Confirmation Saint

One of the things that you are asked to do when you come into full...

February 25, 2013

Bunting and Kénōsis

In preparation for an upcoming poetry event here at CUA I read through some of the poetry of David...

February 24, 2013

The “Harlem shake” as a parable of the kingdom?

My friend and fellow podcaster on Crossed Purposes, Josh Wise, just posted an great article on how...

February 22, 2013

Ernie Harwell used to read Song of Solomon 2:11-12 before the first Spring Training game every year…

...so in honor of Spring training I give you this: As listeners of my podcast...