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August 2016

August 18, 2016

TOP10 Books for Explaining Original Sin to Interested Nonbelievers

I am merely trying to say that there is a cultural danger inherent in any...

June 2016

June 26, 2016

Atheist Belief is an Homage to God

To the reader of self-hell(p) books, This little book about heaven-help. --Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection Fabrice...

May 2016

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 23, 2016

World Book Day: TOP10 Meta Book List

World Book Day gives me an opportunity to do yet another book list. It's something...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

Patheos Catholic’s 2015 in Review

Patheos Catholic is pregnant with futurity as it parts with old favorites and invites exciting...

December 15, 2015

The Cosmos TOP10 Literary Books of 2015

The year comes to a close and I find myself once again pulling my favorite...

December 11, 2015

The Cosmos TOP10 Non-Fiction Books of 2015

The year is nearly done, kaput, fin and therefore it is time to take stock...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

Thanksgiving: An American Celebration of a Deadly Sin?

I'm spiritual but not religious about Thanksgiving. I show up only once a year, go...

November 18, 2015

TOP10 SciFi Book & Film Resources for a Judgmental Prophetic Theology

The SciFi genre is today's incarnation of the prophetic tradition's harsh and judgmental sayings of...

November 12, 2015

TOP10 Books: The Girard Option of Interdisciplinary Influence

Bishop Robert Barron proposed René Girard (1923 - 2015) as a late modern Church Father in a...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

TOP10 Books On Theology and Neuroscience

The relationship between religion and science is frequently presented in an agonistic light. But there's...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

15 Books I’d Ban for Banned Books Week

Matthew Schmitz came up with a peculiar way of celebrating Banned Books Week. He devised...

July 2015

July 10, 2015

10 Mind-Bending Theology and Philosophy Books for This Summer

Maybe it doesn't show from this blog, given how many TOP10 lists I've written, that...

June 2015

June 04, 2015

Get 2 Know a Catholic Publisher: TOP10 Angelico Press Titles

The 20th century's most influential theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar, once called for a "kneeling...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

The Spell of Sensuous Silence: A TOP10 Book List of the Divine Sense

The interviews are coming. The interviews are coming! Shh . . . Thursday this week...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Forget the Classics: What New Theology Books Ought You Read This Lent?

If developing a challenging reading regiment is part of your Lent practice, then you are in...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Upward Trends: The State of Catholic Culture Report

The Republican dropping of abortion into the political dumpster put the failure of the Pro-Life...

January 01, 2015

A Feast of Circumfession: TOP10 Reading Standouts From 2014

Today was formerly known as the Feast of the Circumcision. Due to sleep deprivation I...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Ruined by Books: My TOP10 Novel List

Thinking through betrayal reminded me of Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers. It's one of those...

July 2014

July 15, 2014

The Ultimate (2x TOP10) Summer Theology Reading List!

The publishing world didn't stop just because I piled on one more dissertation into the...

April 2014

April 15, 2014

He Emptied Himself: A Kenosis Reading List

Thanks to repetition and the familiarity it breeds Palm Sunday's second reading, as probably with...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

TOP10 New and Noteworthy Theology Books

"For many years I used to think I had been born too late. Fascinating times,...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Books I've Cheated On: Non-Fiction

I'm attempting to get back to blogging by tying it to my dissertation. Yesterday's post...