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July 2014

July 28, 2014

And We Behold His Glory

Most major mythologies say that humanity will end up in either a hades or a...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Kim Kierkegaardashian and the Culture of Nothingness

“Rise & grind! Busy day!! Gym then packing 4 Paris again! This is the despair...

June 08, 2014

Sherwood Anderson and the Platonic Touch

A couple of weeks ago, Leah Libresco wrote an excellent article suggesting that our society’s...

June 07, 2014

Ignorance: A Blessing

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

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Winter’s Humbling

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

February 2014

February 13, 2014

Why Fast?

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

September 2013

September 09, 2013

Reforming Desire

  I recently heard a priest make the following statement in a homily on the...

September 06, 2013

The Economy of Desire

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer admonishes Christians who have bought into the theology of...

July 2013

July 09, 2013

Boredom and Kairos

If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest...

July 05, 2013

The Gospel of Authenticity

In last Saturday’s New York Times, Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster critique the “pursuit of...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Longing, Communion, and the Great Gatsby

Like most of us, I read The Great Gatsby in high school, and although I...

May 02, 2013

The “New Legalism” Gets Some Things Right

On the Acton Blog, Anthony Bradley argues that "radical" or "missional" Christianity, of the kind...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

Learning to Want What We Want

During the course of a homily on the virtue of faith I heard this Sunday,...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

What to Do About Dualisms?

  Like many American Christians, I grew up with a bunch of dualisms: we need...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

Lent: Why the Language of Self-Control Falls Short

  A group of us were gathered around dinner, discussing what we could give up...

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