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May 2015

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 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 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...

February 2015

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...

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...

April 2014

April 10, 2014

Running in Bursa

It would be nice to report that I begin every morning with a four-mile run,...

February 2014

February 05, 2014

Adventures in Acedia

It would begin in April, when the stiff winds first mellowed into a breeze and...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

My Eucharistic Breakfast

Last night, for the first time in many months, I took a drink. Beneath the...

January 25, 2014

Envy Without Shame

A few days ago I did something stupid. I Googled the guy whose sidekick I...

January 23, 2014

Hearing Voices

In early August of 1990, about ten days before I left New York City and...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Against Interfaith Upbringing

This past October, to mark the Feast of the Holy Rosary, one of my Facebook...

November 2013

November 23, 2013

She’s Got the Whole World in Her Womb

It's called a vierge ouvrante, or opening virgin, and the name doesn't need much explaining....

November 22, 2013

“Sorry, Guys, Still Catholic”

On November 19, Salon ran a piece by a Catholic re-vert named Kaya Oakes titled...

November 20, 2013

Vicino Riva’s Taste of Paradise

So it turns out the guy Pope Francis hugged and kissed to such great fanfare...

November 18, 2013

Review: The Thorny Grace of It And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics

They tell me Brian Doyle is a Catholic. And it seems he's conned an awful...

November 17, 2013

Review: Bad Catholic’s Guide to the Seven Deadly Sins

Whoever first compared a surfeit of fun to a barrel of monkeys and not a...

November 15, 2013

On the Joys of Hanging out with Normal People

When Rick and his wife, Yuna, start arguing, it is crucial not to interrupt them....

November 10, 2013

The Permanent Friend Zone

It's not every day reading other Patheos blogs triggers a visceral reaction, but one of...

November 07, 2013

A Nameless Dignity

Am I the only one feeling uneasy about the coverage of Pope Francis and the...

November 05, 2013

Purgatory-Schmurgatory, As Long As You’re Hopeful

By the Council's 25th session, when the Trent Fathers finally got around to the subject...

November 02, 2013

The Ugliest Piece of Religious Art Ever

Here's a sampling of Facebook comments on Pope Francis' new ferula: "Okay, I think I...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Pastoral Care for the Post-Nuclear Family

Unlike most bloggers, I don't live in my parents' basement. For that reason, last December,...

October 21, 2013

Wherein I Finally Try Tolkien

"You sound gayer than the gayest elf in Mirkwood," an angry reader once wrote me....

October 16, 2013

Yes, He’s the Burying Kind

We should have buried Erich Priebke. Or rather, since protesters in Albano Laziale effectively derailed...

October 15, 2013

Who Moved My Chiesa: A Corporate Casualty’s Guide to Getting Along with Priests

Meghan and I are about the same age, but for several years, scarcely a day...

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