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November 2015

November 22, 2015

Cosmos: Weakened Edition, 8

A summary of what’s not weak this week on Cosmos the in Lost:...

November 21, 2015

Dear Refugees: Come to my Home, Beat the Dog, Tear the Curtains

This week we read letters from Sam Rocha's monthly mailbag. 1st Reading: As the visions...

November 19, 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Immigration Lawyer & Pastor Explains the Refugee Process

Scott Hicks has practiced immigration law since 1995 and volunteered for many years before then....

November 18, 2015

TOP10 SciFi Book & Film Resources for a Judgmental Prophetic Theology

The SciFi genre is today's incarnation of the prophetic tradition's harsh and judgmental sayings of...

November 17, 2015

The Jonah Paradox: Is Humanity Living on Borrowed Time?

The Jonah Paradox, as conceived in Dupuy's The Mark of the Sacred, is the existential mission...

November 16, 2015

Why Have Civilians Become Primary Jihadist Targets?

There is nothing more heinous than the military targeting of innocent civilians like in the...

November 15, 2015

Cosmos: Weakened Edition, 7

What's not weak this week highlights the violent scapegoating origins of all human culture. 1. 4...

November 13, 2015

Is the Higher Education Turboencabulator Fixable?

Higher education is broken. Nobody knows this better than people within humanities departments. This is...

November 12, 2015

TOP10 Books: The Girard Option of Interdisciplinary Influence

Bishop Robert Barron proposed René Girard (1923 - 2015) as a late modern Church Father in a...

November 11, 2015

A New Springtime for Hitler?

On Veterans Day it behooves us to take another look at Timothy Snyder's Black Earth:...

November 10, 2015

4 Remedies for Fundamentalist vs. Atheist Starbucks Red Cup Wars

I hail from Seattle. Seattle is the America's capital city of coffee. I know my...

November 08, 2015

Cosmos: Weakened Edition, 6

Fully half of this week's most popular posts were related to René Girard (RIP). I suspect...

November 07, 2015

From Ancient Philosophy to Christian Wisdom

The relationship of early Christian theology to philosophy is near and dear to me. I...

November 06, 2015

Girard: Islamic Extremism is Symmetrically Related to Western Wealth

Comboxes are usually places of despair that demonstrate the following dictum: Abandon all hope all...

November 05, 2015

René Girard: The Papacy Defeated the West

The medieval West is frequently identified with Christendom. Girard sets the record straight in Battling to...

November 04, 2015

Lux Aeterna: RIP René Girard (December 25, 1923 – Nov 4, 2015)

René Girard, Stanford University professor, an Immortel of the Académie Française, one of the most influential thinkers of...

November 03, 2015

The Intangible and Terrifying Spiritual Energy in Rocamadour

I'm getting close to finishing Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission. The critics immediately billed the book as...

November 02, 2015

We Have Never Been Postliberal Catholics?

The whole faltering #IStandWithDouthat hashtag campaign has me thinking of the Catholic philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre,...

November 01, 2015

Cosmos: Weakened Edition, 5

Here’s what’s not weak this week: 1. What if the Worldwide Jesuit Conspiracy is REAL? 2. BREAKING–Pope...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Halloween Special: Catholics for Extreme Metal?

Sean Taylor is a husband and father of one as well as a Ph.D. student...

October 29, 2015

TOP10 Books on Religion and Ecology

I have put together this list as a distraction, or better yet, a refocusing of...

October 28, 2015

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheist: Sartre Eulogizes Merleau-Ponty

The "Famous Atheists" series is devoted to exposing prominent thinkers (Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Irigaray), artists...

October 27, 2015

What if the Worldwide Jesuit Conspiracy is REAL?

There are plenty of unbalanced Catholic commentators on the Jesuit papacy. Their conspiracy theories, not...

October 26, 2015

2DVD SET GIVEAWAY: The Mystery of God by Word on Fire

Bishop Robert Barron has a new DVD series out, The Mystery of God: Who God...

October 25, 2015

Cosmos: Weakened Edition, 4

Here's what's not weak this week: 1. Against the Defense of Christendom 2. BREAKING–Pope Francis to Announce...

October 23, 2015

Why Did Hans Urs von Balthasar Remain Catholic?

If you think that Catholicism is in some special mess today, then you really have...

October 22, 2015

TOP10 Books On Theology and Neuroscience

The relationship between religion and science is frequently presented in an agonistic light. But there's...

October 21, 2015

Against the Defense of Christendom

A Wall Street Journal piece by Bret Stephens, In Defense of Christendom, is unfortunately making...

October 20, 2015

Michel Houellebecq’s Submission to Catholicism

Michel Houellebecq is France's literary bête noire. His much-anticipated novel Submission finally makes its appearance today...

October 19, 2015

BREAKING–Pope Francis to Announce he Converted to Anglicanism

You really do wonder sometimes: I wonder how the non-clerical Christian world would have reacted...

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