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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...

February 2017

February 10, 2017

The Stanford Memorial Resolution for René Girard

René Girard was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Catholics tend to...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Ever Wonder What a Sex-Change Operation Looks Like?

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand...

January 2016

January 02, 2016

Sealed With a Kiss

I was taking my coffee at a local petrol [gas, --ed] station and inside the...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Bosnian-Muslim Scholar & Immigrant on American Fears

The issue of Muslim identity in America is front and center of late after the...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Theology Between Art and the Body Lecture Tomorrow

If you are in Seattle, you'll want to check out the following events tomorrow (October...

July 2015

July 14, 2015

A Religion is Plausible if it Tells You What to Do With Your Genitals

Facebook blocked me from promoting my St. Paul talking shit piece yesterday because they think...

July 04, 2015

5 Leads for Celebrating Dependence Day (An Alternative Holiday)

Independence Day is the quintessential holiday for lovers of liberty. But what if negative liberty...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Previewing Laudato Si’: Anthony Annett on Integral Ecology

Anthony Annett is a climate change and sustainable development advisor at the Earth Institute (Columbia...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

Francis, Break My Church Like the Eucharist

Ross Douthat specializes in writing very, very, very long pieces recycling the old secular-sociological theory that...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Millionaire Migrants, Broke Postdocs

This is a guest post by Dr. Justin Tse of the Comparative Religion Department at the University...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

God, Interviewed!

I've had some fun doing interviews for Cosmos and at Ethika Politika. Below is something...

November 19, 2014

Guest Post: An Ignatian Meditation on why Artur Rosman was Defamed

This is a guest post by Dr. Justin Tse of the University of Washington. ==================================================...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

This Friday's Dose of Rabelaisian Catholicism

You'll find my latest EP piece in the Rabelaisian Catholicism series here. It might look slightly...

January 2014

January 10, 2014

How Did the Sexual Revolution Make All Sex Legal, Safe, and Rare?

As a Rabelaisian Catholic I am obsessed, but not repressed, when it comes to sex....

December 2013

December 07, 2013

The Genealogy of Jesus Quintana: An Alternative Advent

The weekend is a time to dial things back a bit and let the rug...

October 2013

October 06, 2013

Forthcoming: Behr's Becoming Human

We were about this far from attending our first Byzantine liturgy today. Inhuman lethargy prevented...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

Yet Another Way the Vatican Blows the Competition Away

I'd like to share with you the following Rabelaisian bit of news before I get...

September 15, 2013

Pleasant Thought for Sunday: Stanley Hauerwas on Liberal Democracy

September 13, 2013

Forthcoming: N.T. Wright's Paul and the Faithfulness of God (cum Video)

If you don't know who N.T. Wright is, then you're probably not interested in theology and have...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Attn: University of Notre Dame Press Overstock Sale!

Only two days left to take advantage of these savings.

August 09, 2013

Why millennials are leaving the church

The original Rachel Held-Evans piece can be found here: This blog's reply to RHE...

August 07, 2013

Modern Religious Pluralism is Neither Radical nor Modern

Myth-busting 101 with Robert Louis Wilken.

August 06, 2013

Constantine, Socrates, and Other Saints

Here is one of the more controversial early posts.

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Michael Hanby: Human Making in a Sacramental Cosmos

Those of you who enjoy the new Communio website should also know they have a...

July 21, 2013

Introducing Alfred Delp, SJ

July 08, 2013

Hannah Arendt: Any Anthropology is Always-Already a Theology

We are in the middle of something like a Hannah Arendt Renaissance. One of my...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Alan Jacobs Gets Lost in the Cosmos

Alan Jacobs on Lost in the Cosmos--the book, not this blog:"Lost in the Cosmos is the...

June 17, 2013

The Recipe for a Roman Sacred and Profane Cocktail

I made some promises here yesterday that I have to break today (Rabelais would approve)...

June 07, 2013

Constantine, Socrates, and Other Saints

So far this blog has spent some time on unpopular causes by exploring recent historical...