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May 2015

May 28, 2015

Forthcoming Major Inkling Biography: 42% Off on Amazon

I'll be honest with you. I'm not a fan of C.S. Lewis. He is immensely...

May 27, 2015

On the Divine Origins & Soul of Music: An Interview With Ted Gioia

Ted Gioia writes on music, literature and contemporary culture. He is the author of 9...

May 26, 2015

Ireland & Legitimacy: An Ironic Correlation Between Clergy Abuse & Gay Marriage

They say that correlation does not imply causation. However, when you continually see a pattern develop...

May 25, 2015

Does Anyone Still Remember the Einstein vs. Bergson Thrilla in Paris?

Let's take an askew view of Memorial Day by recalling a long forgotten piece of...

May 24, 2015

What Are the 7 Essential Poems for Pentecost? +Pantheon Surprise

Pentecost with all its fire and surprises is conducive to poetic expressions. For whatever reason,...

May 23, 2015

In Monologue: Did You Notice Atheists Don’t Have No Songs?

In the video below Steve Martin claims atheists might have nothing metaphysically and musically. What...

May 22, 2015

René Girard: Is Christianity a Myth?

I spent an afternoon, and the better part of the evening, in the ER yesterday....

May 21, 2015

Francis, Break My Church Like the Eucharist

Ross Douthat specializes in writing very, very, very long pieces recycling the old secular-sociological theory that...

May 20, 2015

Exposé: The Culture of Deathly Desire Behind Capitalist Anorexia

The rediscovery of imitative (mimetic) desire of nature is one of the most important philosophical-anthropological...

May 19, 2015

Identity-Protective Cognition: Science Finally Discovers Original Sin?!

Aquinas said something to this effect many times in his copious publications: The eternal Father's...

May 15, 2015

B.B. and Franz: Drinking To Two Kings Who Died Yesterday

Everybody probably knows by now about B.B. King's death. Fewer of you might be aware...

May 14, 2015

The Unholy Holiness of the Church Scandalizes Expectations of Purity

I feel responsible for purifying the minds of my readers from the defiling they experienced...

May 13, 2015

I Give You the Single Lamest & Funniest Theological Analogy. Ever.

Omnis analogia claudicat. Analogies limp. I think Aquinas said that. Religious language, especially the Catholic...

May 12, 2015

Seeking Silence: An Interview With Kevin M. Johnson

Kevin M. Johnson is founder and director of The Inner Room. Formed in the summer...

May 11, 2015

Where in the Continent is the Heart of Europe?

Obsessively discussing the demise of Europe is one of the favorite preoccupations of those on...

May 08, 2015

Greatest Generation? Russia Is Right, VE Day Was No Simple American Victory

Tom Brokaw's great myth-building volume, The Great Generation, seeped into the American consciousness a couple...

May 06, 2015

Just Another Atheist Jewish Catholic: An Interview With Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com and a consulting editor at the University of...

May 06, 2015

Secular Isaac Robs Religious Esau by Praying “LORD, deliver us from salvation!”

Have you heard the one about the atheist arguing that atheists are more moral than...

May 05, 2015

The Spell of Sensuous Silence: A TOP10 Book List of the Divine Sense

The interviews are coming. The interviews are coming! Shh . . . Thursday this week...

May 01, 2015

May Day — Dorothy Day: Political Radicalism & Liturgical Conservatism Feed off Each Other?

Despite popular prejudices I am no enemy of RadTrads. For example, I've come to appreciate...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Stanley Hauerwas Contra the Bad Idea of Religious Toleration

As Americans we are enjoined to religious tolerance as if it were the 11th commandment....

April 29, 2015

Before Marriage: Gays (As a Group) Were Morally Superior to Christians (As a Group)

Stanley Hauerwas is America's theological gadfly. Short is the list of people who have not...

April 28, 2015

Nietzsche’s Flame of Eternity: It’s Not a Wonderful Philosophy Nor Life

Leszek Kolakowski, author of philosophical barnburners such as Metaphysical Horror and Religion: If There Is...

April 25, 2015

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

I found something truly unusual while doing research for my piece On the Polish Origins...

April 24, 2015

On the Polish Origins of the Concept of Genocide & Its Armenian Roots

The term genocide seems ancient. It is actually a clumsy Greek-Latin hybrid coined by a...

April 22, 2015

Famous Atheists Who Aren’t Atheist: Hold off on Papism David Brooks!

Did you know that Sartre was a Jew, Camus intended to become a Protestant, Warhol...

April 21, 2015

Fr. John Behr: Marriage is a Form of Martyrdom

After dealing with controversial topics such as the sexual orientation of monasticism, the Catholic background...

April 20, 2015

FBI Head Comey is Maliciously Wrong on Holocaust Facts about Poland

It's been said the victors write the history books. This should not be equated...

April 17, 2015

Sexuality is at the Heart of Christianity’s Place in the World

We have gone over some of the lineaments of the difference Christian sexual morality makes...

April 16, 2015

Temple of Perfection: Christianity, Homosexuality & America at the Gym

There is an LA Fitness just down the road from our new apartment. It is...

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