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April 2017

April 16, 2017

Liberal Theologian’s Lenient Easter Sermon Makes a Mockery of Lent

Remember when Easter sermons used to demand discipline of us? Yeah, me neither. Pope Francis...

April 09, 2017

What is the History of the Coptic Christian Victims of the Egyptian Terrorist Bombings?

The rich diversity of rites has always been a hallmark of Christianity since long before...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

February 14th is a Very Problematic Holiday For Many

Derrida liked to gleefully disseminate the news that the ancient Greek word for medicine (pharmakon) also means poison....

May 2016

May 22, 2016

TOP10 Books to Build Upon Trinity Sunday

We must be willing to admit that, should the doctrine of the Trinity have...

May 01, 2016

Happy May Day (Resurrection Sunday) to the Russian Orthodox!

Товарищ, Христос воскрес! Воистину воскрес! Happy May Day, Resurrection camp starts today. The wonderful thing about...

February 2016

February 13, 2016

Does Pope Francis’s Joint Declaration with Patriarch Kirill Throw Eastern Catholics Under the Bus?

The mainstream religious media coverage of the Joint Declaration signed by Pope Francis and Patriarch...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

The Cosmos TOP10 Non-Fiction Books of 2015

The year is nearly done, kaput, fin and therefore it is time to take stock...

September 2015

September 08, 2015

From Russia with Idols

I attempted to make something out of my nothing with my last post. It was...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

John Milbank: The Eastward Movement of Western Theology

What John Milbank, author of Theology and Social Theory, calls the Eastward movement of Western...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

A Pixellated-Camouflage Bible for the Deus Absconditus in Your Life!

Not long after the pope condemned told those in the weapons industry they shouldn't consider...

June 17, 2015

2 Possible Questions About Rod Dreher’s “Orthodoxy, Catholicism, & the State”

I am thankful Rod Dreher took up my piece "Why Doesn't Holy Mother Russia Remain...

June 10, 2015

Why Doesn’t Holy Mother Russia Remain Orthodox?

This is an experiment in extending the #whyremaincatholic brush onto a wider canvas in order...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

Just Another Atheist Jewish Catholic: An Interview With Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com and a consulting editor at the University of...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

On the Polish Origins of the Concept of Genocide & Its Armenian Roots

The term genocide seems ancient. It is actually a clumsy Greek-Latin hybrid coined by a...

April 21, 2015

Fr. John Behr: Marriage is a Form of Martyrdom

After dealing with controversial topics such as the sexual orientation of monasticism, the Catholic background...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

Holy Orthodox Mother Russia? Let’s Compare it to Quebec!

Quebec is usually cited as one of the most shocking examples of rapid secularization. The...

February 2015

February 28, 2015

Hope Abandoned: Something Rotten in Putin’s Russia Besides Nemtsov’s Corpse

"Killing Hope in Putin's Russia" could be one of the most depressing reads of the...

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 21, 2015

Repentance is the Daughter of Hope and the Refusal to Despair

An excerpt from Archbishop Sartain's A Lenten Pilgrimage that hits all the right notes: Every Lent...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

All the Best to the Russians, But I Am Profoundly Skeptical

The Merton Annual asked me to write a piece about the Thomas Merton - Czeslaw...

February 2014

February 19, 2014

GOD HATES FLAGS: The Public Nature of Theology

The protests in the Ukraine have taken a somewhat unexpected violent turn recently after the...

December 2013

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...

July 2013

July 09, 2013

Disconsolate Karłowicz & Dostoevsky Tarry with Theological Corpses

One of my readers has (rightfully?) chided me about my obsession with the negative aspects...

July 05, 2013

Acquainted with the Night: The Art of Jerzy Nowosielski (An IMAGE Journal Essay)

What follows is an essay I published in IMAGE Journal with the help of the Starmach...