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February 2017

February 21, 2017

Childlike Wonder in a Misbegotten World

Things are picking up speed here on Cosmos. Books are pouring in for review. This means...

December 2016

December 11, 2016

TOP10 Booklist: What Theology, Science & Philosophy Should Be Under Your Christmas Tree?

Theology buffs have more of a Christmas gift dilemma than science and philosophy readers. The...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

TOP10 Books for Explaining Original Sin to Interested Nonbelievers

I am merely trying to say that there is a cultural danger inherent in any...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

TOP 10 Books on the Ecstatic Pessimism of the Polish Soul

As a former university instructor I cannot help wondering what books I would've assigned to...

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...

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...

December 2015

December 15, 2015

The Cosmos TOP10 Literary Books of 2015

The year comes to a close and I find myself once again pulling my favorite...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

TOP10 SciFi Book & Film Resources for a Judgmental Prophetic Theology

The SciFi genre is today's incarnation of the prophetic tradition's harsh and judgmental sayings of...

November 05, 2015

René Girard: The Papacy Defeated the West

The medieval West is frequently identified with Christendom. Girard sets the record straight in Battling to...

November 03, 2015

The Intangible and Terrifying Spiritual Energy in Rocamadour

I'm getting close to finishing Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission. The critics immediately billed the book as...

October 2015

October 20, 2015

Michel Houellebecq’s Submission to Catholicism

Michel Houellebecq is France's literary bête noire. His much-anticipated novel Submission finally makes its appearance today...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Zoltan Istvan 2016: Transhumanist Anti-Nature is Now Mainstream

If you think Zoloft was a HUGE breakthrough, then you haven't seen nothing yet....

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 28, 2015

Forthcoming Major Inkling Biography: 42% Off on Amazon

I'll be honest with you. I'm not a fan of C.S. Lewis. He is immensely...

May 15, 2015

B.B. and Franz: Drinking To Two Kings Who Died Yesterday

Everybody probably knows by now about B.B. King's death. Fewer of you might be aware...

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...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

Even Demons Believe: Converting the World Will NOT Make Everyone Holy

Last week I wrote about the one novel you need to read this year. Now...

February 2015

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 24, 2015

What’s the One Novel You Need to Read This Year?

Death Comes for the Deconstructionist lays out the set of confounding problems facing us in the...

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...

February 14, 2015

Valentine Love Songs: Romero & Opus Dei, Carr & Faith, Troubadours & Twerks, Bloy & Bloy

I was elected the education director of the University of Washington Newman Center in the...

February 09, 2015

Tournier & McCabe on Keeping Theology Grubby

One of my favorite pieces of spiritual advice comes from Herbert McCabe's God, Christ, and...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

Milosz Mentors Merton on Manichaeism & the Modern Mind

It is fashionable to dump upon Thomas Merton. He seems to have been too open...

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...

January 10, 2015

Houellebecq: Charlie Hebdo Coverboy Maps Faith’s Manifestations

Michel Houellebecq is on the front cover of this week's edition of Charlie Hebdo. It...

January 05, 2015

I Have Met Many Secular Bigots (Calasso on Sacrifice)

It's a big deal any time Roberto Calasso releases a book, because his books always...

January 01, 2015

A Feast of Circumfession: TOP10 Reading Standouts From 2014

Today was formerly known as the Feast of the Circumcision. Due to sleep deprivation I...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

Ruined by Books: TOP10 Catholic Studies Books

Some time ago I started a series of topical TOP10 lists. I got as far...