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December 2013

December 31, 2013

Blurred Lines: (Theologically) Nothing is Sacred

Let's get back to the principles of Rabelaisian Catholicism. It all started with a post...

December 28, 2013

Blessed are the Cheesecake Makers

Here's a delicious story I spotted in my facebook newsfeed this morning: The brief AP...

December 26, 2013

Christ-Vegas

We spent a wonderful traditional Polish Christmas with my parents this year. It included two...

December 25, 2013

TOP10: A Christmas Gift for Catholics from Wipf & Stock

The transformation of Eerdmans, a mostly Calvinist publishing company from Grand Rapids, into a publisher...

December 23, 2013

G. Wolfe: Eat (Cath-L)it Already!

I've done a fair share of writing on the fiction of a Catholic/Christian/Religious/(Whatever, so long...

December 21, 2013

Christmas Carols from the DSM-5

Our kids have left a copy of Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death under the Christmas...

December 11, 2013

The Strangest Thing in the Cosmos: Walker Percy

Communion and Liberation is a movement that's been close to the heart of the last...

December 09, 2013

Between the Icon and the Idol: What and Before Whom We Have Bowed?

Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen is director of the Slavic Department at the International Center for the...

December 07, 2013

The Genealogy of Jesus Quintana: An Alternative Advent

The weekend is a time to dial things back a bit and let the rug...

December 06, 2013

Von Balthasar: Into the Dark Advent with God

Something that happened a few days ago warmed my worried heart a bit. The University...

December 04, 2013

A Discomfiting Advent and the Comforts of Atheism

Consolation used to have a pivotal place in philosophy. This was not only the case...

December 03, 2013

Praying to a French God: Phenomenology as Catholic Philosophy

This is a continuation of yesterday's post on Catholicism and contemporary French philosophy. If you're...

December 02, 2013

Derrida and Theology + Phenomenology as Catholic Philosophy = The French Theological Turn

If we apply the principle of "Ye shall know them by their fruits," then it...

December 01, 2013

Alfred Delp: The People of Advent

Peter Nguyen is translating the work of Alfred Delp on his blog. The following is...

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving Borne of Vexation and Humility

I'd like to share with you an excerpt from Scott Dodge's post from last year:...

November 26, 2013

Thanksgiving Special: Eating, Theology, Philosophy, and the Hungry Soul

Today is a busy day, so I'll have to confine myself to some quick remarks....

November 25, 2013

Two La Farges and One Hidden Encyclical

Today is the anniversary of the death of a long overlooked figure in American Catholicism...

November 24, 2013

UW American Religion Class and the Kennedy Catholic Moment Myth

Those of you who are students at the University of Washington should consider enrolling...

November 22, 2013

Something Fleshy and Earthly: A Phenomenology of Christian Life

I'm a sucker for opening salvos in books. If you can pull me into a...

November 21, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 6: The Catholic Demarcations of Wallace Stevens

[Read about Sartre, Camus, Warhol, Hitchcock, and Heidegger in the "Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists"...

November 20, 2013

Prominent Polish Prelates and the Poisonous Fruit of Unbridled Capitalism (Catholiclandia III)

Wyszynski and Wojtyla upon the latter's election as pope. The first thing you...

November 18, 2013

Finger of God's Hand We Own

There's a passage in the hymn "Veni Creator, Spiritus" that should get a rise out...

November 08, 2013

Brot und Spiele: The Best Liturgical Abuses Yet!

I spent the better part of last evening with my buddy drinking German lager at...

November 07, 2013

The Liberty at the Bottom of a Formless and Sexless Void

A limp shiver went down the collective spine of social media last week with...

November 05, 2013

Books I've Cheated On 2 (& a Side Note About My Grandma): Fiction & Poetry

Autumn is the season for indulging in your regrets and voting. Sometimes the two activities...

November 03, 2013

Crisis of the Humanities: "Shakespeare’s not on trial. You are."

Cynthia Haven let loose yesterday over at The Book Haven with the piece "The questionable...

November 01, 2013

Reformation Day Joke Polka

My Anglican friend Justin over at Religion Ethnicity Wired got the ball rolling on some...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Reformation Day: For Shame Catholics and Protestants are the Same!

Reformation Day: it's my day to resist the temptation to take unjustified swipes at our...

October 30, 2013

Books I've Cheated On: Non-Fiction

I'm attempting to get back to blogging by tying it to my dissertation. Yesterday's post...

October 29, 2013

The Catholic Imagination and the Age of Czeslaw Milosz

Dissertation writing is a long process of accumulating knowledge, scrapping it, finding surprising connections,...

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