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April 2015

April 09, 2015

So You Think Moses Can’t Liturgical Dance? Forget #SalonChristianitySecrets!

Twitter might be abuzz with #SalonChristianitySecrets inspired by a Religion Dispatches piece on Holy Saturday...

April 08, 2015

Worstward Ho(pe): Christ and Apollo and Moving!

I firmly believe that moving is the process of rearranging old constellations of junk into...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

Deneen, MacIntyre, Schindler, Dreher? For John Zmirak I’m Ahead of Them All!

John Zmirak is a Catholic intellectual of limited credibility. He has an MFA, surprisingly enough...

January 2015

January 03, 2015

BREAKING — Pope Says We Are All Responsible for Climate Change

In a leaked draft of the forthcoming encyclical on the environment the pope says: Preservation...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

Culture of Waste: Thesis → Antithesis → Santhasis

There's a reason for the season, and Santa it ain't. I can't help suspecting that...

December 11, 2014

Stephen Herreid’s God: A Holiday Thank You Note

Two weeks ago I drove our family Volvo forty miles vaguely aware something was wrong...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

On Not Fighting Matt Walsh’s Cultural Warrior Contagion

Let me be clear, I can only read Matt Walsh's constant emoting one paragraph at...

September 16, 2014

Woody Allen Considers Conversion

Allen’s latest film Magic in the Moonlight has not received the credit it deserves. At first glance...

July 2014

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...

April 2014

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...

December 2013

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 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...

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 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 01, 2013

Reformation Day Joke Polka

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

October 2013

October 08, 2013

The iCharist and the Methodist

Cosmos previously featured a liturgical foul by the Episcopalians here. There was a striking bulletin foul by...

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,...