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April 2014

April 28, 2014

CT 2: Thomas Takes on Faith

Thomas always likes to start by giving the reader an outline of what he’s about...

April 27, 2014

My Joy is Complete

On Saturday I made my life profession as a Lay Dominican, and that was a...

April 27, 2014

German Food Project

Normally on Sundays I've been posting reflections on Lumen Fidei; but this has been a...

April 26, 2014

Potency And Act, Distinguished

As I noted on Thursday, Edward Feser's new book Scholastic Metaphysics came in the mail....

April 26, 2014

Becoming a Lay Dominican

This morning, I promised before God and everybody to live according to the Rule of...

April 25, 2014

The Wishing Wife, and a Dog’s Life

The neat thing about Pandora is that I hear songs I would never have heard...

April 24, 2014

Books in the Mail

Got two books in the mail, today: The Lion's Gate, by Steven Pressfield Scholastic Metaphysics:...

April 24, 2014

Archie Says: Dying in Character

Breslow looked as if he had been born flushed with anger and would die, when...

April 23, 2014

Watchman for Daybreak Watch

Here's a round-up of writing-related stuff. Watchman for Daybreak is going well. I've revised most...

April 22, 2014

CT 1: Thomas’ Plan of Attack

This post is part of a series. In Chapter 1 of the Compendium Theologiae, Thomas...

April 21, 2014

The Desolation of the Draggin’

The Anchoress wrote last week about her experience of desolation in Penn Station. She was...

April 17, 2014

Happy Triduum!

It's Holy Thursday, and Holy Thursday mass is just a few hours off; tomorrow is...

April 17, 2014

The Peril of First Principles

It was in college that I first learned the peril of reasoning from first principles....

April 16, 2014

Fr. Robert Barron on Bart Ehrman

A couple of weeks ago, on my post "Why Catholicism", a commenter said that I...

April 16, 2014

Riding the Rigatoni Cycle

Not much to report on the Watchman for Daybreak front, though I'm proceeding along the...

April 15, 2014

A Compendium of Simplicity—Wait, What?

Towards the end of his life, Thomas Aquinas began his third summary of the theology...

April 14, 2014

Blogging Aquinas

I've been finding myself wanting to write more about philosophy recently, partially because of my...

April 13, 2014

Lumen Fidei: Foundations, Creaky and Solid

I'm writing these Lumen Fidei posts mostly for the Catholics in the crowd, but the...

April 12, 2014

How Not To Write A Best-Selling Fantasy Novel

This post was written in September of 2004, relative to a blog post about how...

April 11, 2014

Sandra Boynton: Delightful Goofiness

Most people, I suppose, know Sandra Boynton from her line of greeting cards with Recycled...

April 10, 2014

Archie Says: On Locks and Listening

Archie Goodwin on locks and listening: It is always a temptation to monkey with locks,...

April 09, 2014

Writing Flawed Characters

I only got about a thousand words written on Watchman for Daybreak this week, but...

April 08, 2014

Review: Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield

We've all heard of the 300 Spartans who held the pass at Thermopylae against the...

April 07, 2014

Taste and See

For the past several weeks I've been talking about Christian belief: how I came to...

April 06, 2014

Lumen Fidei: The Vine and the Branches

We often speak as though to be a Christian you have to be good—as though...

April 05, 2014

Eusebius’ History of the Church

This post was first posted in August of 2004. When I first ran into The...

April 04, 2014

The Full Goofy: Shel Silverstein

Last week I looked at beautiful singing in Gaelic, continuing a general Irish/Celtic theme around...

April 03, 2014

Annunciation: The Mystery of Vocation

I think of the Annunciation as the Mystery of Vocation, the Mystery of Calling. The...

April 03, 2014

Words I Wish I’d Written: On Facial Hair

The baron sat down. He was a large, red-faced man, insofar as a face could...

April 02, 2014

Watchman for Daybreak Watch

Writing continued on Watchman for Daybreak in a somewhat desultory fashion; I had the flu...

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