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June 2014

June 23, 2014

Talking About Thomism

Some books and songs and movies and talks stay with you, and the longer they...

June 20, 2014

That Is Very Christian of You

My favorite character on The Big Bang Theory is Sheldon. How to summarize seven seasons...

June 07, 2014

Ignorance: A Blessing

There are some things that I know with certainty. The sum of two and three...

June 04, 2014

To Work Is Not Quite to Pray

St. Benedict has often been (mis)quoted as saying, “Labora est Ora”. Or: “To work is...

June 02, 2014

Bulletins from a Second-Order Society

Mitt Romney was having a bad week. This, as anyone familiar with the 2012 election’s...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

What We Talk About When We Talk About Ambition

When it comes to ambition, it sometimes seems that feeding our egos means starving our...

May 15, 2014

That They May Be One

Just last week, I met up with an acquaintance with whom I had grown up...

May 05, 2014

On “Drunken” Christianity

Today, many Americans will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo, a holiday celebrated in America and...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

Un-sandwiching Holy Saturday: Reclaiming the Discipline of Waiting

Holy Saturday tends to gets sandwiched between Good Friday and Easter. I want to make...

April 08, 2014

Omnivory and Christianity

I am a troubled omnivore. Or more precisely: I am a troubled, Christian omnivore. I...

April 02, 2014

Like a Child

As the oldest of seven kids, I’ve done my fair share of wiping dirty faces,...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Winter’s Humbling

Cuttings of yellow forsythia bloom on my coffee table as March threatens its last (fingers...

March 20, 2014

A Brief Theology of Coffee

The season of Lent has come, and I’ve spent the past weeks watching my...

March 11, 2014

Jesus of Nazareth: A Savior with a Hometown

Seamus Heaney. Wendell Berry. William Wordsworth. Robert Frost. In my childhood exploration of words...

March 08, 2014

Call the Midwife

Jennifer Worth’s The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times chronicles the...

March 07, 2014

Religious Experience as an Assault on Autonomy

There's a fascinating discussion going on right now about the nature of religious experience,...

March 06, 2014

Epic Mentality

In my house, my wife Katie and I are hoping that using consistent, relaxing...

March 04, 2014

The Liberal Arts and the Call to Die

A week or two ago, I saw a friend post...

March 03, 2014

“Be Perfect”

In his reflections on February 23rd’s Gospel reading from the Sermon on the Mount (Mt....

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Christian Symbolic Action

Regarding my most recent Fare Forward essay, two questions have been repeatedly asked of me....

February 26, 2014

Receiving the Gift of Presence

My first post here at Fare Forward discussed the nature of providing Christlike presence to...

February 25, 2014

The Shortcomings of “Love What You Do”

Evangelical Christians love to cite this widely popular quote by Martin Luther King Jr: “If...

February 18, 2014

Tikker: The Death Watch That Makes Every Second Count!

A few weeks ago, I was delighted to hear a story on the Colbert Report about Tikker, "the...

February 17, 2014

I Guess It’s Chocolate

One of the misconceptions that recent literature on religion tries to take down is...

February 16, 2014

Christian Commitment, Symbolism, and Farming

The Christians I am closest to tend to fall into one of two camps...

February 13, 2014

Why Fast?

For as long as I can remember, my dad has fasted every Wednesday and...

February 12, 2014

Jesus and the Art of Presence

A poignant article rippled through my social media sphere three weeks ago. In "The Art...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

Prodigal City

The bankruptcy of Detroit is a consequence of multi-faceted social problems that defy simple...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

A Polish Christmas

Ever since immigrating to the United States from Poland in the 1980’s, my mother...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Out with the Old

Edith Schaeffer died this past Holy Saturday at her home in Gryon, Switzerland at the...