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August 2014

August 20, 2014

Tolkien’s Smaug of Money: Class Conflict in a Children’s Classic

My resistance to the Inklings is strong, but breaking down. Two causes stand behind my...

August 19, 2014

Phenomenology, the Anxieties of Life, and the Mystery of Hope

It's finally time to write a post here at Patheos. I've kept busy the past...

August 12, 2014

Really, Big, Big, Big News: Walesa and Patheos!

Alright folks, it certainly does seem like this will be one of the last...

August 07, 2014

How Husserl Changed Catholic Attitudes Toward Judaism

One of the guiding threads of Gubser's book on the Central European origins of phenomneology...

August 06, 2014

The Polish Heart of Phenomenology in English Translation

I think I first encountered the notion of Krakow as the capital of phenomenology...

August 05, 2014

The Central European and Social Heart of Phenomenology

Contemporary philosophical movements are not known for connecting on a practical level with Catholics. Catholics...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Joseph Ratzinger, Socialist

The title of this post, identifying Joseph Ratzinger with Socialism is exaggerated on purpose, or...

July 27, 2014

So What’s Your Mass Bias?

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field,which a person finds...

July 25, 2014

Conversation with Patrick Deneen About Catholic NeoCons

I've gone done an interview with Patrick Deneen of the political science department at Notre...

July 23, 2014

To What Degree is First Things Responsible for Iraq?

I remember the days when First Things was riding high as the representative of a...

July 16, 2014

Polish Poetry: Milosz, Herbert, & Kamienska on Suffering & Insight

Right now I have several friends who are going through extreme suffering. There aren't words...

July 15, 2014

The Ultimate (2x TOP10) Summer Theology Reading List!

The publishing world didn't stop just because I piled on one more dissertation into the...

July 12, 2014

Papal World Cup Final 2014: Argentina is on God’s Side #QED

Above are the Catholic numbers for this 2014 World Cup Final. What can we learn...

July 09, 2014

Barker’s First Temple Fireworks: Christianity, Judaism, Islam

The ISIS attempts at reestablishing the caliphate are getting much press of late. They...

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...

May 2014

May 21, 2014

Saint Socrates: What Damon Linker Got Wrong About Philosophy

When translating the book Socrates and Other Saints I learned that Erasmus, among others, called Socrates a...

May 01, 2014

Hans Urs von Balthasar and Weakness as Apologetic Form

Christians are not immune to the desire to come across as powerfully convincing in what...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

The Consequences of Real-Existing Capitalism for Fertility

This is an extension of the line of argument I began in "No More Throne...

April 28, 2014

No More Throne and Altar: St. JP2 on Inequality is the Root of Social Evil

Pope Francis caused a storm of controversy with the tweet, "Inequality is the root of social...

April 27, 2014

Ode for John Paul II by Czeslaw Milosz

"Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II" by Czeslaw Milosz in New...

April 23, 2014

James K.A. Smith: Seeking Transcendence in a Secular Age

Isn't it strange how life seems to offer almost as many connections as a...

April 22, 2014

Charles Taylor: The State of Religion in a Secular Age (Firth Lectures)

If you've missed the discussions surrounding Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, then you've been living...

April 20, 2014

Resurrection Sunday: Whoever Believes That Should Not Behave as We Do

“Christ is risen.” Whoever believes thatShould not behave as we do,Who have lost the up,...

April 18, 2014

A Non-Triumphant Descent Into Hell with Hans Urs von Balthasar

I'm usually a few days (or a few months behind) on almost everything I do....

April 17, 2014

Catholiclandia: Solidarity Means Carrying One Another's Burden

Maundy Thursday usually has people twittering about whose carefully cultivated stinky feet will get...

April 16, 2014

What Do We Make of a Disturbingly Radical Papacy?

There are papacies and there are radical papacies. Nobody notices the really radical papacies, because...

April 15, 2014

He Emptied Himself: A Kenosis Reading List

Thanks to repetition and the familiarity it breeds Palm Sunday's second reading, as probably with...

April 10, 2014

Why Be So Harsh on George Weigel? Because of What Weigel Said.

I've penned an Immigration Manifesto with Sam Rocha over at Ethika Politika. Our displeasure with...

April 02, 2014

John Paul II, the Artist in You, and Coleridge

John Paul II died nine years ago today. His background in the theater and...

April 01, 2014

Famous Feminists Who Aren't Atheists: Luce Irigaray, Catholic

It took me a while to figure out a topic for April Fool's that would...