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April 2017

April 15, 2017

Why Yes, The Vatican Museums Are Actually Taking Donations of Blood Money

The blood shed on Good Friday today coagulates into the passivity of Holy Saturday. Western...

August 2016

August 01, 2016

Pope Francis Wasn’t Silent About Auschwitz; He Deconstructed It Instead

There's plenty of talk about Francis's silence during his visit to Auschwitz last week. This...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Palestinians Are the Living Key to “Tear Flasks” & the Bible’s Strange World

My wanderings you have noted; are my tears not stored in your flask, recorded in...

June 07, 2016

Did God Rape the Prophet Jeremiah?

Jeremiah seemed to think so and that's more interesting than a thousand vapid "current events"...

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 15, 2016

Pentecost Special: The Secret Old Testament Teaching on the Femininity of the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit made unexpected feminine appearances in ancient Hebrew traditions. “I have told you...

April 2016

April 06, 2016

Siskel & Ebert Give Protestants Two Thumbs Down, Way Down

"If you want to understand the Jewish conception of sacrifice, go to a Roman Catholic...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

A New Springtime for Hitler?

On Veterans Day it behooves us to take another look at Timothy Snyder's Black Earth:...

July 2015

July 08, 2015

NO JOKE: Pope Francis to be Tried by Re-Established Sanhedrin!

I found the weirdest piece of news on my day off from my new temp...

July 02, 2015

Is Christianity Secularization’s Best Hope?

Savage Memory is an equally disturbing and humanizing documentary portrait of Bronislaw Malinowski, the Polish...

May 2015

May 25, 2015

Does Anyone Still Remember the Einstein vs. Bergson Thrilla in Paris?

Let's take an askew view of Memorial Day by recalling a long forgotten piece of...

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 20, 2015

FBI Head Comey is Maliciously Wrong on Holocaust Facts about Poland

It's been said the victors write the history books. This should not be equated...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

Netanyahu Understands the Inquisition Better than Zmirak (Who is Closer to Cruz)

The Black Legend of the Inquisition persists because it takes popular opinion a couple of...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

The West Was Never Western: Creative Plagiarism, Rome, Tracing

I was recently reminded of a quip in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. His character says: I...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Two Nativities? Can You Divine the Original Christmas Story?

Margaret Barker sure knows how to set up an argument. She goes all out in...

August 2014

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...

July 2014

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...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

Abortion, Natural Law, and Antisemitism?

This is the ancient history behind present day hot-button issues. The plurality of stances possible...

September 2013

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...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists: Sartre's Crossover

Almost everyone will agree that Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is rightfully recognized as a major figure...

June 19, 2013

One More Nortre Dame Book on/and the Legacy of Solidarność

Last night I went back and checked the Notre Dame Press overstock site on a...

June 16, 2013

Rabelaisian Catholicism Redux or: How to Keep the Church Impure

Yesterday's post discussed (here) how early Christian theology was fundamentally "polluted" by the Greek tradition...

June 14, 2013

Rick Perry is Right? The Myth of Religious Freedom in America.

I don't want to belabor the obvious when it comes to Perry's right-ness. What I...

June 12, 2013

Supersessionism: Two for the Price of One?

Debates about supersessionism frequently flare up in America between evangelicals (generally pro) and mainliners (generally...