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May 2017

May 09, 2017

Biblical Authority After Babel Cannot Be Built Upon Mere Protestant Christianity

I recently finished reading Kevin J. Vanhoozer's, Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in...

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...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

The Reformation is Not Done with You

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." --William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun...

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...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

How Does Stanley Hauerwas Perform the Faith?

This is a personal reflection on the work of Stanley Hauerwas in celebration of his 76th...

May 2016

May 28, 2016

Obama Used Original Sin to Explain Hiroshima

If one bothers to scratch even a little below the surface then it becomes clear...

May 22, 2016

TOP10 Books to Build Upon Trinity Sunday

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

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...

October 2015

October 08, 2015

Cradle Catholic Open Letter: Stop Protestant-splaining #Synod15!

The letter and overly-earnest essay are the order of the day for apocalyptic-Protestant panicking about...

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 30, 2015

Stanley Hauerwas Contra the Bad Idea of Religious Toleration

As Americans we are enjoined to religious tolerance as if it were the 11th commandment....

April 22, 2015

Famous Atheists Who Aren’t Atheist: Hold off on Papism David Brooks!

Did you know that Sartre was a Jew, Camus intended to become a Protestant, Warhol...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

If You Practice It, You’ll Become: How the Pastor Became an Atheist

"Nothing will come from nothing," says King Lear, habitually plagiarizing a tradition that goes back...

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...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Reformation Day is an Oops?

Another day, another year, another Halloween, and yet another Reformation Day. Today some of us...

October 27, 2014

Mini TOP10: Books on Vatican Relations with China and Hong Kong

Today we feature an exclusive peek ahead to the third installment of my interview...

October 07, 2014

Every Gun n’ Rose Has Its Thorn

After driving Dominik to kindergarten I took the girls for a spin around the block...

September 2014

September 14, 2014

The Empire Strikes Back: Feast of the Holy Cross

It's easy to forget the Feast of the Holy Cross is a consummate Constantinian feast....

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Elizabeth Warren, Libertarian

When you clicked on the link that brought you here, you probably weren't expecting a...

July 27, 2014

So What’s Your Mass Bias?

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field,which a person finds...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

James K.A. Smith: Seeking Transcendence in a Secular Age

Isn't it strange how life seems to offer almost as many connections as a...

February 2014

February 20, 2014

Guest Post: The Ecumenism of the Private Consensus Martyrs by Justin K.H. Tse

Artur Rosman has given us a masterful account of the difference between Catholic and Protestant...

February 07, 2014

Catholic and Evangelical Sex Scandals Are Structurally Different

Have you heard anything about the abrupt break between Bob Jones University and sex abuse investigators they hired...

February 04, 2014

The Protestant Imagination

After writing a post on the Catholic imagination a bit of Protestant dialectics "If You’re Defending...

January 2014

January 03, 2014

Islam Does Not Need a Reformation

After a little bit of polemic the last few days I'd like to write about...

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:...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Is the Pope Protestant? (On the Propes)

I'd like to get back to the topic of ultramontanism I broached two days ago...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Top 10 Theology Books of the Last 10 Years (That I've Read)

Here is a list of what I consider to be the ten most important theology-related...

June 2013

June 22, 2013

Colm Toibin's Regensburg Moment & Macauley's Catholic Dissidents

Colm Tóibín's The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe is a real treat. There's...

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...