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October 2014

October 15, 2014

What Is “Islam”?

After every new Islamist terrorist activity, there comes the same tired debate, endlessly rehearsed, as...

October 15, 2014

“The Two Standards”

The Two Standards is one of the most well-known meditations of St Ignatius of Loyola's...

October 14, 2014

What To Do About Decadence?

Helen Andrews is a very erudite and talented writer, and she has a great little essay contrasting present-day decadence...

October 13, 2014

Quick Bulletpoints on the #Synod14 Relatio

The Synod on the Family just released a working document. It is, emphatically, just a working...

October 13, 2014

Class 3 Relics

I'm a fan of the Irish sitcom "Father Ted," an extremely irreverent (and yet sometimes...

October 12, 2014

Fred Clark Digs Deeper

Fred Clark, the Patheos Progressive Christian who delivered himself of a bizarre rant against a column I...

October 11, 2014

A Good Example Of A Missed Opportunity

I've stumbled upon this story: Catholic University of America banned (on the day of!) a screening...

October 11, 2014

Natural Family Planning & Theology of the Body, 17th Century Style

St Francis de Sales, take it away: “The elephant, not only the largest but the...

October 09, 2014

Thiel And Strange Gods

The great and lovely James K. A. Smith has what I must call a frankly...

October 09, 2014

How Sleazy Am I? Let’s Find Out

A fellow Patheos blogger in the Progressive Christian Channel, Fred Clark, writes that I am being...

October 06, 2014

The Facticity of the Church

Christianity went screaming into the Ancient World proclaiming not an ethic, not a philosophy, nor...

October 03, 2014

The First Rule Of Cardinal Fight Club Is…

The Synod on the Family is starting, and within that there is the drama of...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

The Idolatry of the Year Zero

It is common to the religious mind and, indeed, to the human mind, to harken...

September 27, 2014

What Does Being A Christian Warrior Mean?

In French Catholicism, every year, there is a thing called the Pilgrimage of the Family...

September 26, 2014

Whence Mimetic Desire?

As frequent readers will know, I am a follower of René Girard and his mimetic theory....

September 25, 2014

Wanted: Young Bishops

In our icons and stained glass windows and statues and portraits, Paul is always portrayed...

September 20, 2014

Preliminary Thoughts On Theological Aesthetics

Since I'm on a Balthasarian kick these days, it's impossible not to talk about the...

September 20, 2014

Thanksgiving As The Meaning Of Life

I've already written about the meaning of morality as worship (coda). I've already written (maybe only...

September 18, 2014

Desperately Needed: New Relationship Scripts

My wonderful Patheos co-blogger Leah Libresco has recently been hosting a symposium of sorts on...

September 12, 2014

Book Review: Richard Bauckham, “Jesus and the Eyewitnesses”

A number of prominent Bible scholars believe that Richard Bauckham's book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses...

September 11, 2014

What Should Abortion Penalties Be?

My fellow Catholic Patheosi Kyle Cupp says that pro-lifers should not be vague about the penalties...

September 09, 2014

The Best Defense Is A Good Offense

"My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking." -...

September 06, 2014

Once More On Same-Sex Marriage

Over at The Week, I wrote a post arguing that most Christians will continue to...

September 05, 2014

A Blueprint For Christian Unity

For all that I fire potshots at Protestantism, I really do believe there is very...

September 04, 2014

Calvinism 101

Calvinism is one of my frequent internet punching bags, and usually the retort from my...

September 02, 2014

Five Theses On Predestination

A few points, some of them which will be necessarily polemical, en vrac: 1. We'll...

August 2014

August 30, 2014

“Scripture” In Scripture

Perhaps instead of writing a full "Summa Contra Sola Scriptura" (the first draft of which...

August 30, 2014

Should Churches Try To Target Men More?

The Jesuit Post's Jeff Sullivan, SJ has written a nice post on the changing cultural understanding of...

August 29, 2014

Kiss Corpses

I had a discussion on Twitter about Christian burials. Expecting the resurrection of the dead,...

August 29, 2014

Quote of the Day

From The Guardian's quite good (!) obituary of Elizabeth Anscombe: She was notorious for a...