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March 2017

March 27, 2017

Wendell Berry and the Given Life

It's been a very long and anxious couple of weeks. I thought I'd give you a...

February 2017

February 21, 2017

Childlike Wonder in a Misbegotten World

Things are picking up speed here on Cosmos. Books are pouring in for review. This means...

January 2017

January 11, 2017

Zygmunt Bauman Goes to Eternity from Liquid Modernity

Caillebot's painting above is significant to me because in and through its simplicity the painting evokes a world of...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

Religion: Either Everything, or Nothing

"Religion is either everything, or it is nothing." --Pawel Rojek, Avant-garde Conservatism "Christianity has functioned...

October 2016

October 13, 2016

The Biblical Weight of Suffering in Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Winning Songwriting

Bob Dylan is one of my earliest theological influences, therefore it gladdens me to see...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

Pokémon is Anti-Christian, but It’s Not Anti-Catholic

The Pokémon phenomenon is inescapable. I might the only person who hasn't played the game...

August 14, 2016

Jeremiah Ought to be Put to Death

In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to...

May 2016

May 09, 2016

The Catholic Imagination: A Sophiology Between Scatology and Eschatology

. . . A pure thing, against the sad affairs of earth. Pure, forbidden the...

May 02, 2016

This 1 Thing Has Never Before Happened in the Sistine Chapel

No, it's not nudity, as you can still tell from the cover photo even if...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Oh! You Pretty Things: Spotlight on David Bowie and Catholic Sex Scandals

NOTA BENE: I don't say anything here that would have caused shame to Bowie. Therefore...

December 2015

December 15, 2015

The Cosmos TOP10 Literary Books of 2015

The year comes to a close and I find myself once again pulling my favorite...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Rod Dreher’s Scandal

Rod Dreher has been exceedingly kind in his careful readings of Cosmos the in Lost....

October 2015

October 09, 2015

No Bible? Fine. No Liturgy? No Christianity.

For some of you the sentiments of the title for this piece might be as...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

The Newest News on the Authenticity of the Shroud of Turin

USA Today reports that new testing has pushed the Shroud of Turin back to...

August 11, 2015

Dave Griffith: The Violent Bare It Away and Away and Away

Dave Griffith is the author of A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art...

April 2015

April 12, 2015

Scientifically Examining the Turin Shroud: Resurrection Sunday Deux

There are those who automatically shrilly say their faith doesn't hang upon The Shroud of...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

See and Taste the Lord is Good: Ocular Communion as Real Communion

Yesterday's post on the curious practice of ocular communion included a brief citation that Ann...

March 27, 2015

Hand? Mouth? What About the Third Way of Receiving Communion?

There are way too many silly debates on how to take Communion. Being a contrarian...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

On Lent and the Martyred Copts: Can Water, Silence, and Desert Coincide?

Lent is the seasons of going off into the desert and facing temptation. In the...

February 25, 2015

Ida and Avoiding Silence at Any Cost

My initial reflections upon Ida concentrated upon the historical context of the film, about what...

February 14, 2015

Valentine Love Songs: Romero & Opus Dei, Carr & Faith, Troubadours & Twerks, Bloy & Bloy

I was elected the education director of the University of Washington Newman Center in the...

February 04, 2015

Last Temptation of Christ & American Christian Responses to ISIS

The season of Lent is almost upon us. We are traditionally invited to practice ascesis. That...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Two Nativities? Can You Divine the Original Christmas Story?

Margaret Barker sure knows how to set up an argument. She goes all out in...

December 19, 2014

Beauty For Truth’s Sake: The Creed’s Amazing Hidden Symmetry Between Son & Spirit

One of the most persistent claims of the Catholic tradition is that truth, goodness, being,...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Ruined by Books: My TOP10 Novel List

Thinking through betrayal reminded me of Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers. It's one of those...

September 12, 2014

They Were Not Able to Separate the Soul From the Flesh

Finishing Theology of Transformation was one of those bittersweet reading moments: I was happy to...

September 09, 2014

The Fourteen Foreskins of Christ and Mary’s Hymen

One of my readers asked the following legitimate question in response to Nudus Nudum Christum Sequi:...

September 08, 2014

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Art and Revelation?

Will Beauty Save the World? The slogan “Beauty will save the world” is increasingly invoked...

September 04, 2014

Nudus Nudum Christum Sequi: On Christ’s Genitalia

Ever since graduation my mornings have followed the routine of studying actively-engaged anthropology. tears, poop,...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

Were Catholics Targeted by the Conservative Culture Wars?

Rachel Held Evans has finished her third book and is back to blog writing. I...