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April 2017

April 27, 2017

Post-Execution Church: Rise Up from the Electric Chair!

I read this recent New York Times interview with people who have witnessed an act...

April 24, 2017

Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Memory of the Holocaust Continues to Evolve

The great German philosopher is usually only known for the statement, made in Prisms, that the culture which...

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...

March 10, 2017

Why is the Catholic Experience of Sex so Different from the Protestant Experience of Sex?

Our religious beliefs are not private, because they shape our experiences of fundamental realities such...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

See You at Fordham’s Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination Conference?

You'd think that a religious imagination that can produce public intellectuals such as Dana Gioia, Ron Hansen,...

January 2017

January 22, 2017

St. Paul’s First Letter to the Catholics

Today's second reading is 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17: I urge you, brothers and sisters, in...

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 19, 2016

Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing of Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils

I have reached a point of exhaustion with politics, just as any respectably abnormal person should. The...

June 2016

June 06, 2016

Ever Wonder Why Saint Paul Went to Arabia?

Arabia is a geographical entity familiar and vexing to the contemporary Westerners, but what could...

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 08, 2016

Piety is No Magic Substitute for Technique

Those outside of religious traditions sometimes articulate the belief that believers adhere to belief as...

April 2016

April 13, 2016

TOP10 Book Challenge: Books About the Meaning of Life for Undergrads

I'm a little sheepish about publishing book lists, even though my readers frequently tell me...

January 2016

January 08, 2016

Dow Jones vs. Paula Jones & Christian Unity

Ut Unum Sint? There are plenty of dividing lines among Christians. Overcoming them has led...

January 06, 2016

Edith Stein and the Assassination of God’s Epiphany

I forced myself to reflect upon the importance of getting our pictures of God sorted...

December 2015

December 27, 2015

How Is Sarah Silverman Right About Jesus Being Gender Fluid?

Even though Sarah Silverman is not a theologian, her trolling tweet about the gender fluidity...

December 09, 2015

George W. Obama Says Islam is a Religion of Peace

The differences between George Bush and Barack Obama on the economy, military, spying (on you,...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

The Jonah Paradox: Is Humanity Living on Borrowed Time?

The Jonah Paradox, as conceived in Dupuy's The Mark of the Sacred, is the existential mission...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

Ocean Symphony, Breeze, & a Liturgy: Sam Rocha’s Folk Interview

Sam Rocha is my dear friend. Besides that he is also Assistant Professor of Philosophy...

September 2015

September 02, 2015

New Historical Mists Shower Auschwitz with Hope

By now you might be past your knee-jerk reactions to the "showers" (misters, to be...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

No Theology, No Phenomenology of the Person?

Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of German at...

July 2015

July 01, 2015

God Provides the Justification: Jean-François Garneau on #WhyRemainCatholic

Jean-François Garneau is a management consultant and an adjunct professor of management at the École...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Playing Mad Libs with Laudato Si’ & the Politics of Identity

What if you took recent articles and replaced some words as you would in Mad...

June 12, 2015

McGilchrist: Your Brain, You Didn’t Read the Instructions, You’re Using it Wrong

Iain McGilchrist, the philosopher, neuroscientist, and literary critic keeps popping up everywhere. I've seen his...

June 09, 2015

Romanticism & Reason: New Inklings Biography Authors Interviewed

========================================================================== Philip and Carol Zaleski are the coauthors of Prayer: A History and The Book of Heaven. The...

June 05, 2015

The Sacramental Imagination: Why Emily Edmondson Remains Catholic

This is a guest post. ================ Emily Edmondson is a graduate student at the University...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Seeking Silence: An Interview With Kevin M. Johnson

Kevin M. Johnson is founder and director of The Inner Room. Formed in the summer...

April 2015

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...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

Incarnadine: Playful Poetic Sadness on the Edges of Religious Hope

Poetry is meant to be performed out loud, just like the liturgy—the connection between these...

January 2015

January 17, 2015

I’m Not Well—The Voices are Back

No, this isn't about Stephen Herreid. He seems to have gone into writing exile after...

January 16, 2015

Beauty, Postmodernism, and Vodka: Gregory Wolfe Interview Preview

Gregory Wolfe has spent half a lifetime saying "Beauty will save the world." Czeslaw Milosz...