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December 2013

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 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 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...

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 11, 2013

Ingmar Bergman on the Apologetic Value of Human Holiness

My wife and I are doing our best to revive our practice of watching films...

October 05, 2013

Apart From… What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us?

"And apart from being involved at the beginning of science, systems of government, philosophy,...

October 02, 2013

The Eviscerated Public Square

When you accumulate books there is always that one which you've meant to read for...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Is the Pope Protestant? (On the Propes)

I'd like to get back to the topic of ultramontanism I broached two days ago...

September 25, 2013

We Are All Ultramontanists Now: Catholic Infighting is a Sign of Strength!

When I hear people say Catholic means "Here Comes Everybody" I wonder if they really...

September 10, 2013

Richard Dawkins Puts Pedophilia in Perspective

Sex abuse is not one of the issues I want to write about, but sometimes...

September 05, 2013

Christianity Is Neither a Monotheism Nor a Religion of the Book (Remi Brague)

This blog began with a series of posts debunking some common myths about Christianity. There...

September 03, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 4: Heidegger’s Nietzschean Sideburns

Due to a late night bout of copy-editing I am not able to write the...

September 02, 2013

Forthcoming Books for the God-Obsessed

Today's post features a rundown of the new and noteworthy books that will be reviewed...

September 01, 2013

In memoriam Seamus Heaney

We pretty much have everything back in place here at Cosmos The In Lost. The...

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Fresh Caught Fish II: Top 10 Living Religious Novelists

Paul Elie says all the great novelists are dead. But he's dead wrong! I've recently...

August 14, 2013

Fresh Caught Fish: Top 10 Living Religious Poets

The last installment of this blog broached Paul Elie's claim that fiction has lost its faith. Elie's...