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November 2014

November 10, 2014

Not Off to Rome

The obscure corners of American Christianity department: A friend asked if a higher percentage of...

November 07, 2014

The Convert’s Ignorance

Or, as the article is actually titled, The Convert's Unnecessary Worries. Writing on the Catholic...

November 06, 2014

American Converts, In Their Own Words

A very interesting and useful site, at least for those interested in converts, with the...

August 2014

August 05, 2014

How You Enter

In last Thursday's The Experience of Conversion I quoted the first few paragraphs of an essay...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

The Experience of Conversion

One kind of would-be convert, as I wrote in Long's Commitments a couple of days...

July 30, 2014

Long’s Loyalties

In My Church Loyalties, the Methodist philosopher and Marquette professor D. Stephen Long explains why he...

July 02, 2014

Father Rumble Explains

In yesterday's Readings, I gave the link to the Australian writer R. J. Stove's conversion...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Chesterton on the First Stage of Conversion

Earlier this morning I invoked Chesterton's insight into conversion from his later book the Catholic Church...

June 25, 2014

Cheap Shots Can Bring People to the Church

Slate's William Saletan hit Catholic writers with a cheap and silly shot for their explanations...