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December 2015

December 19, 2015

In Defense of Serena Williams

Kathy Schiffer, my Patheos stable-mate, has made it into The Washington Post for observing that...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Tales from A Runner, Shy of Virtue

According to one strain of conventional runners’ wisdom, whoever can run a half marathon can...

November 04, 2015

Generation Win: LGBT-Rights Supporters and Those Mad Enough to Resist Them

We’re living in a world where jocks use words like “relational” – and come to...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Video: The Nymph of the Swimming Pool

April 2014

April 10, 2014

Running in Bursa

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

November 2013

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...

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,...

August 2013

August 04, 2013

The Hidden Blessings of a Feminist Mother

Rod Dreher thinks Lynn Messina's a bad mother, and he thinks that's a hoot. In...

April 2013

April 07, 2013

Broken Silence

On Saturday afteroons, there's a special stillness in the air of churches, a vacuum like...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Keep it Simple…For Now?

One day in the agora, tradition has it, Diogenes passed a group of spiffily dressed...

February 2013

February 13, 2013

The Pilgrimage of Dorian Gray: My First Ash Wednesday

Following the Arizona Cardinals can feel like an endless meditation on the vanity of human...

August 2012

August 03, 2012

Romoeroticism for Straight Guys

In Crisis Magazine, Eve Tushnet argues that the Catholic Church has something unique to offer...

July 2012

July 15, 2012

Fair Play for Patriarchies

It's easy to draw parallels between Penn State's pedophilia scandal and the Church's. It's also...

March 2012

March 02, 2012

Dream of the Red Hat: Or, Asia’s Revenge

Jeremy Lin is a consciousness-raiser. Jay Caspian Kang claims never to have seen "the Asian...

February 2012

February 07, 2012

M.I.A. and Randall Terry: Co-Victors

There's a strange symmetry between British singer M.I.A. and pro-life activist Randall Terry. Both have...

February 06, 2012

Catholics and the War on Football

When it comes to football and its risks, writes Ken Briggs in National Catholic Reporter,...

January 2012

January 18, 2012

Tim Tebow: Nice Guy Becomes Clanging Symbol

Say whatever you like about Tim Tebow -- and my friend, the Broncos fan, says...

December 2011

December 17, 2011

Oedipus in the Heartland, Choruses in the Combox

Last night, the Anchoress blogged on a peculiar prank that parents, in collusion with the...

October 2011

October 19, 2011

Lacrosse: Sport of the North American Martyrs

Rugby is a gentleman's sport played by savages; lacrosse is a savage's sport played by...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Wanted for Baseball: A Strong Pope

To all appearances, the Boston Red Sox broke their curse once and for all during...

September 29, 2011

Beware the Coach with An Artistic Temperament

High school football just went gothic. After Marcellus High’s junior varsity squad lost a game,...

September 07, 2011

Was Al-Jazeera Reporter Treated Ugly?

Really, I have no longstanding grudge against Texas, the soil that yielded Buddy Holly, Larry...

August 2011

August 18, 2011

Ralph Branca: Remembering Jerusalem

The athlete whose career seems in retrospect to have been defined by an instance of...

June 2011

June 22, 2011

Wimbeldon Head: No Grunting, Please. We’re British

The chief executive of the All England Lawn and Tennis Club wants Wimbeldon competitors to...

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