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March 2017

March 29, 2017

Prayer Isn’t About God

Prayer, modern people think it's about God. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Praying is difficult to understand, because we...

March 17, 2017

The Myth of Secularization

Secularization theory attempted to expose religion as a myth, but the tables have turned. Nietzsche,...

March 15, 2017

Famous Atheists Who Aren’t Atheist: Facebook Creator Mark Zuckerberg and Desecularization

Exposing the secret religious lives of famous personalities such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Alfred...

March 09, 2017

Who Knew Sex Helps You to Experience God’s Presence in the World?

Who knew this about sex and God? Well, the writers of the Bible and the...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

Religion: Either Everything, or Nothing

"Religion is either everything, or it is nothing." --Pawel Rojek, Avant-garde Conservatism "Christianity has functioned...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Don’t Look to Secularism if You Want to Bathe in a Kinder, Gentler World

The problem of violence is an inherently human problem. It is unavoidable, because violence is...

June 2016

June 10, 2016

Why Speak of Theocracy in Poland When Confessional States Make up the Secular West?

Poland is not becoming a theocracy over abortion, because it was never a secular democracy...

May 2016

May 06, 2016

The Secular Addiction to the Endtimes (& Scapegoating)

In our case, it is surely obvious that the sudden intensification of our capacity to...

January 2016

January 05, 2016

Do Catholics Worship the Same God as the Americans & Judge Scalia?

I hope Scalia, il Magnifico, lives to be a hundred and ten, and dies on the...

July 2015

July 02, 2015

Is Christianity Secularization’s Best Hope?

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

June 2015

June 11, 2015

Bet You an Arm & a Leg You Haven’t Heard of Transability!

Forget Caitlyn Jenner. The National Post reports about the next big trend in nominalism: When...

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 26, 2015

Ireland & Legitimacy: An Ironic Correlation Between Clergy Abuse & Gay Marriage

They say that correlation does not imply causation. However, when you continually see a pattern develop...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

I found something truly unusual while doing research for my piece On the Polish Origins...

March 2015

March 05, 2015

11 Most Important Critiques of Modernity According to Thomas Pfau

Of making many books there is no end: and much study is an affliction of...

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...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

How is Aquinas so Premodern That He’s Postmodern?

If you hang around enough weird overeducated people, then you've probably heard the phrase "He's...

January 14, 2015

A French Genocide and Salvation Outside the State

Christians who give into their fears of their opponents miss out on a lot of...

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...

January 06, 2015

Reenchantment: Atheist PZ Myers Attempts to Confess Bias, FAILS

If you didn't notice Saturday evening I ran a confirmation bias experiment on my coreligionists (many, if not...

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...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

The Consequences of Real-Existing Capitalism for Fertility

This is an extension of the line of argument I began in "No More Throne...

April 22, 2014

Charles Taylor: The State of Religion in a Secular Age (Firth Lectures)

If you've missed the discussions surrounding Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, then you've been living...

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...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

Considerations for a (Violent &) Secular Age

I've been working on yet another translation of a Dariusz Karłowicz text. This time it's...

August 2013

August 12, 2013

A Fish Rots from the Head Down (On Paul Elie and Secularization in the Arts)

The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) is widely read in American poetry circles. It wouldn't be...