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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 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...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Why Must God Hate the American Dream?

The American Dream is making a comeback. Trump channeled it with the Make America Great...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Did God Rape the Prophet Jeremiah?

Jeremiah seemed to think so and that's more interesting than a thousand vapid "current events"...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Jesus Didn’t Call God Daddy

One of the perennial temptations for Christians is to forget their Jewish roots. Anthony...

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...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

Wheaton College Professor Suspended for Expressing Catholic Position on Islam

Some of the best Catholic colleges are Protestant. This is the case in Seattle. Take,...

December 03, 2015

The Discovery of God: God IS Dead? Long Live God!

Language periodically wears itself out when speaking about God. But that is not the same as...

December 01, 2015

Advent and the Pointlessness of God

The helplessness and weakness of the Christ Child should be a scandal to our ears....

August 2015

August 20, 2015

God? Not Available Right Now!

I think I first heard about the poet Anne Carson in Minding the Modern (read...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

Religion is at Once Theoretical and Practical

The difference between theory and practice is fairly clear. It is like the difference between...

January 2015

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 15, 2014

God Plays the Numbers

Last week's first post on torture (see the more divisive second one here) mentioned Stratford...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

God, Interviewed!

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

October 2014

October 28, 2014

The Consequences of God’s Maternal Thinking for Theology

The feminist Sara Ruddick must be doing something right if both Alasdair MacIntyre and Janet Martin...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

A True Opium for the People is a Belief in Nothingness After Death!

When was the last time any of you (who don't attend fundamentalist churches) heard a...

July 24, 2013

Eternity in a Dunghill: Infinity and Perspective

You've no doubt encountered Blake's "Auguries of Innocence." It begins with: To see a world...

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...

July 05, 2013

Acquainted with the Night: The Art of Jerzy Nowosielski (An IMAGE Journal Essay)

What follows is an essay I published in IMAGE Journal with the help of the Starmach...

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 15, 2013

Adam Zagajewski | In the Beauty Created By Others

Early in the morning I'm grading papers at the Crossroads mall in Bellevue. It's delightful...

June 11, 2013

Czesław Miłosz | To Raja Rao

TO RAJA RAO Czesław Miłosz Raja, I wish I knew the cause of that malady....