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May 2015

May 18, 2015

New Arab Saints: A Fountain of Virtue to the Thirsty

The careful reader will note something forlorn in the words “Pope Francis presided over the...

May 11, 2015

Sic Transit Gloria Basset Hound

Once puberty concludes its mad career, the aging process slows. After building itself up in...

May 09, 2015

Splitting the Difference on the Mercy Logo

Yes, the logo for the Year of Mercy is an eyesore -- and that’s if...

May 08, 2015

Unfriending Jack Without Friending Bill

If the AA chapter had been a little more upscale, I might just have gone...

May 06, 2015

Revenge Porn for the Righteous

In its Christmas, 2014 issue, the Catholic literary magazine Dappled Things published a link to...

May 04, 2015

I Have Heard You Calling in the Night

The voice came in the quietest part of the night, and it was loud enough...

May 03, 2015

Phoenix and the Prophetic Life for Beginners

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece titled “Heaven in the Jungle” about...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Hooray for Cheap Grace!

After I flew back to Phoenix and claimed the keys to my new apartment, one...

April 23, 2015

Special Attention: Conclusion

The agent’s booklet contained the address of the Department of Homeland Security’s official website. After...

April 22, 2015

Special Attention: Part I

On my way home from Turkey, I stopped in Kyiv -- the auld sod, more...

April 20, 2015

Coda: Jordan, An Unpretentious Little Palace

It happens all the time in Jordan: You’re cruising on some road, gazing up at...

April 18, 2015

In Petra: A Bedouin Girl Leans In

She had a winning smile. As an 11-year-old who had years to go before growing...

April 16, 2015

Stuff Melkites Like

Like “fundie” and “papist,” the label “Melkite” began as an insult. Deriving from the Arabic...

April 14, 2015

My Shemagh and Me

A couple of days ago, I became the owner of a shemagh. A shemagh is...

April 14, 2015

Heaven in the Jungle: A Visit to the Jordan

Here’s one fact about Bethabara, or Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan, the narrow plot of desert real estate where...

April 12, 2015

Private Parties

My first positive act as a visitor to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was to...

April 12, 2015

Amman: Where A Good Church Is Easy to Find

Finding a Christian church in Amman is the easiest thing in the world – provided...

April 11, 2015

Loaves and Fishes Redux: A Taste of the Jordan Valley

Given a less spectacular landscape, I would probably have skipped the meal. Over the previous...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Monday Mourning Coming Down

The day after IS terrorists beheaded 21 Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach, all of...

February 15, 2015

Lent and the Lame Evangelist

I’ve been warned that wearing a cross openly in Turkey means asking for trouble. There’s...

February 13, 2015

Valentine’s Day: For Some, 50 Shades of Blue

I’ll call her Lara Lipschitz, even though that’s not her real name. Her real name...

February 10, 2015

The Crusades and Yearning for Christendom

A few days ago, my Patheos colleague Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry asked fellow Catholics to lay off...

February 07, 2015

Five Reasons I Despise Listicles

If Moses had brought a donkey or two up Mt. Horeb, God might have sent...

February 05, 2015

In Praise and Defense of Catechists

They frown. They squint. They knit and raise their brows. They purse and chew on...

February 01, 2015

Semipro Catholic, Live on Facebook

I loathe self-promoting – not because I’m modest, but because I wasted years of my...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Mike Huckabee, Pope Francis, and the Rise of Mother Manners

It seems a terrible waste in a man whose name is basically a dirty limerick...

January 24, 2015

Here We Go Again, Folks

Don’t tell anyone I’m writing. I’m supposed to be beavering away on a new curriculum...

January 23, 2015

An American Sniper…from A Critical Distance

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, Colonel, USMC (ret.) was fond of promising, “Show me a hero, and...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Striking the Tent

Dear Readers: After a long hiatus and a lot of hard thought, I’ve decided to...

July 19, 2014

A Lousy Lyre

Oh, hi. Yeah, it’s been a while. I’ve backed off writing for several reasons. The...

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