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September 2014

September 17, 2014

Your Own Indian Princess

He'd been surprised, wrote a friend, when a DNA test came back without any Native American...

September 16, 2014

Inviolable Fertility

"You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I'd do is get [female...

September 14, 2014

A Way to Talk About Dying

"As you know, I'm a born again Christian" is a line rarely uttered by a...

September 09, 2014

The Semi-Divine Putin

"A divine light at the moment when [Putin] left his baptism transfixed his essence, restoring...

September 08, 2014

Mediaite v. Time

Conflicting narratives: "Atlanta Hawks Owner To Sell Share of Team over Racist Email" from Mediaite....

September 08, 2014

Young Conservative Delusions

"A class of conservatives has arisen, again largely made up of young people, who are...

September 01, 2014

Farewell, Tolkien’s Tree

As an unidentified writer titled the story from the Oxford University news and events page...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Exodus in Song

An entertaining telling of the story of the Exodus, using songs from Les Miserables, by...

August 28, 2014

The Answer to the Problem of Ecclesiadicy

Read this after posting The Theology of Bad Bishops: Catholic New Testament scholar and convert Leroy Huizenga's...

August 28, 2014

The Theology of Bad Bishops

Bad leadership, especially the sort that undermines Catholic teaching even when not denying it, "is...

August 27, 2014

White People Like Being Spiritual

As it turns out, not only is being "spiritual but not religious" a spiritual and...

August 25, 2014

We’re Not a Family, We’re a Nation, So Take That

"He [Obama] invoked the American family last week. It’s a lie, brother. You’ve got to...

August 22, 2014

The Soviet Joker

With admirably gleeful contempt for their former overlords , Bulgarians are painting the figures on...

August 20, 2014

You May Eat Rabbit

We've had six or seven rabbits, including dwarves and the enormous Belgian bruisers people eat,...

August 19, 2014

Dysfunction Dramas

The main relationship, the relationship you are supposed to root for, moves from dysfunction to...

August 19, 2014

A New Definition of the Poet

The lead (or lede) of a story from the Daily Telegraph: "Italian police have arrested a...

August 12, 2014

Holy Disruptions

The year I wrote A Great & Glorious, but Debated, Assumption, that holy day of...

August 11, 2014

The 10 Commandments in Text Language

God Texts the Ten Commandments, by James Quatro on McSweeney's. Here are the first three:...

August 07, 2014

The East, Home of Civilization

A cartoon explaining the difference between wearing a suit on the east and the west...

August 06, 2014

A Lesson From the Egyptians

As it turns out, egyptologists had the answer all the time, illustrated with a very...

August 04, 2014

Readings (4 August 2014)

Physicist George Ellis Knocks Physicists for Knocking Philosophy, Falsification, Free Will, by John Horgan, from...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Old & New Confessions

Signs from (and of) the past, on the confessionals in St. Peter Church in the...

July 28, 2014

But You Can Eat Cats

In Don't Eat Dogs, published last night, I quoted Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry's defense of eating dogs...

July 27, 2014

Don’t Eat Dogs

First, my friend and then-colleague Barbara McClay explained Why You Shouldn't Eat Dogs. We accord...

July 24, 2014

The MBTI Explains the Limits of Open-Mindedness

I have my doubts about the Meyers-Briggs Type Inventory, described in The Pastoral MBTI, but...

July 21, 2014

The Pastoral MBTI

The Meyers-Briggs [Personality] Type Inventory is a way of categorizing people along four spectra producing...

July 16, 2014

Books Worth Reading, Unexpectedly Considering the Source

"Books a man should read," especially when the list appears in Esquire, suggests a list...

July 10, 2014

Readings (10 July 2014)

The papers from the 2014 Orientale Lumen conference, by Kallistos Ware, Father Robert Taft, S.J.,...

July 09, 2014

Build a Better Bible

Leah Lebresco mentions an attempt to find a more readable Bible (physically readable, that is)....

July 07, 2014

Readings (7 July 2014)

The Continuing Mysteries of the Aleppo Codex, from The Tablet. The codex, "the perfect copy...