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April 2017

April 27, 2017

Post-Execution Church: Rise Up from the Electric Chair!

I read this recent New York Times interview with people who have witnessed an act...

June 2016

June 14, 2016

Rene Girard: No, Christianity is Not a Religion of Peace!

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

Uber Atheist Nietzsche Liked his Christianity STRONG!

Nietzsche would've seen Karl Barth as his match. The German philosopher is a usefully confusing atheist thinker. He...

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...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

René Girard: Is Christianity a Myth?

I spent an afternoon, and the better part of the evening, in the ER yesterday....

April 2015

April 16, 2015

Temple of Perfection: Christianity, Homosexuality & America at the Gym

There is an LA Fitness just down the road from our new apartment. It is...

April 02, 2015

Pope Francis and Kristeva Celebrate JP2’s Suffering With Joy

Today Pope Francis celebrated the 10th anniversary of John Paul II's passing with the following...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

John Gray: Waiting for an Atheist Morality is Like Waiting for Godot

John Gray is one of our most fascinating public intellectuals and one heck of a...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

St. Socrates: Philosophy’s Permanent Ties to Theology

Dominique Janicaud has spent the great part of his academic career attempting to somewhat belligerently...

January 21, 2015

How Did Disappearing Middle Eastern Religions Survive in the First Place?

Gerard Russell's Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East should...

January 15, 2015

What Christian Group Says It Worships Same God as Muslims?

French history, and a little bit of American international relations, have been the main focus...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Christianity Does Not Endeavor to Save Christianity

The Lumen Christi Institute is devoted to promoting the depth and breadth of Catholic culture...

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...

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...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Something Fleshy and Earthly: A Phenomenology of Christian Life

I'm a sucker for opening salvos in books. If you can pull me into a...

October 2013

October 05, 2013

Apart From… What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us?

"And apart from being involved at the beginning of science, systems of government, philosophy,...

September 2013

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...

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...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The Prolegomena to Any Future Newman

Below is an excerpt from an interview with Nick Ripatrazone featured today on his blog The Fine...

July 18, 2013

Coetzee Demolishes Greek Harmony With Christian Agony

The best religious novelist of our time isn't, as far as I know, a Christian...

July 16, 2013

You Have no Idea How Much Nastier I Would be if I Was Not a Catholic

My post about the historical roots of resistance to the widespread and sociologically natural practice...

July 03, 2013

American Idol: Religious Freedom

That something went wrong with the post-conciliar Church is a truism of both left and...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 2: The Christianity of Camus

Albert Camus was nearly as unfaithful as Jean-Paul Sartre . . . to atheism. This...

June 23, 2013

Sunday Spoiler: The Liturgy Is *Not* Sacred

If you're looking for a book which is a huge difference-maker in how you view...

June 20, 2013

Pagan Symbols and the Coming Christianity

Philip Jenkins of Baylor U is probably our most perceptive commentator on religion. His views...

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 12, 2013

Supersessionism: Two for the Price of One?

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

June 07, 2013

Constantine, Socrates, and Other Saints

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

June 02, 2013

The Early Church? Show Me the Money!

Early Christian history is usually presented as the parade of a motley crew of peasants,...