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August 2014

August 29, 2014

What To Do About Kids And Porn And Smartphones?

Sometimes I feel like a fossil. My wife informs me I'm 28. Let me tell...

August 28, 2014

On Augustine Day, Buy Sam Rocha’s Album

Today is the feast of Blessed Augustine, as our Eastern brethren call him. Whatever you know...

August 27, 2014

Modernity As An Overlearning Of Christianity

Christianity is "a set of contradictions held together by grace." The history of orthodoxy is...

August 26, 2014

How Partisan Should The Pro-Life Movement Be?

At the tail end of an excellent post explaining why it's perfectly consistent for pro-lifers...

August 25, 2014

Primo Levi And The Incomprehensibility Of Evil

The FT has a good piece from Martin Amis pondering the mystery of the Holocaust....

August 25, 2014

The Gospel And Moral Foundations Theory

Moral Foundations Theory is an effort by several psychologists, the most famous of whom being...

August 21, 2014

From The Getting-Our-Asses-Kicked Department

The startup Minerva Project to me embodies everything that is wrong about the way the Church...

August 20, 2014

N.T. Wright On The New Testament On Women In Ministry

As frequent readers will know I have a great admiration for the Biblical scholar N.T....

August 20, 2014

“And Also You, My Friend Of The Last Minute…”

Given recent events, this seemed as appropriate as anything. I was away for a couple...

August 17, 2014

Beethoven > Mozart

We need more theologians who love Beethoven. (We need more theologians who love Led Zeppelin!)...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Stray Thoughts About Fundamental Option Theory

Fundamental Option Theory is the idea that people take a fundamental option for or against God,...

July 29, 2014

Is Catholic Social Doctrine A Set Of Guidelines?

The generally interesting review Ethika Politika has an interview with Patrick Deneen. One of the money quotes...

July 28, 2014

Human Rights In Catholic Tradition: A Brief History

To write a historical discourse is to presuppose both an objective reality and a point...

July 27, 2014

To Jessa Duggar’s Boyfriend: Thank You!

The headline popped up on my Facebook feed: "Jessa Duggar's Christian boyfriend deletes anti-Catholic Facebook...

July 26, 2014

A Dog’s Breakfast

My friend Michael Brendan Dougherty has a piece arguing against an excessively heartless rationalism that would...

July 23, 2014

Impotence, Shame, Disgust–And Bitter Joy

"[My father] was trying to cover my three-year-old nephew with his body. They took the...

July 23, 2014

A Quick Point About Liturgy

Speaking of consequentialism, exposing me to this article arguing that Reformed Christianity provides the...

July 23, 2014

Stray Thoughts On Consequentialism

Some stray thoughts on consequentialism. Usual caveats apply: I'm thinking out loud, not making any...

July 22, 2014

Boredom, Divertissement, And Theology

Have you read that meme about how a study "showed" that people would rather receive...

July 22, 2014

Catholicism and Accountability

When will we finally clean house? The Archdiosese of St Paul and Minneapolis is...

July 21, 2014

An Apology And A Question (More On Legal Realism And Property Rights)

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has responded to my previous post. A few points. First of all,...

July 21, 2014

The Problem With “Legal Realism”

As I write these lines, one of the most ancient Christian communities in the world...

July 21, 2014

Review: David Bentley Hart, “Atheist Delusions”

Yes, I'm late to the party. The New Atheist thing seems to be moribund...

July 17, 2014

#TrollSoHard Pastoring

"In the magnificent cathedral, the Honorable and Right Reverend, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before...

July 16, 2014

Very Short And Partial Commentary On The Creed

(The Nicene, of course.) Is it possible to say the creed too much? I find...

July 15, 2014

On Bonaventure Day, A Sketch Of A Franciscan Theology Of Modernity

Today is the Feast Day of Saint Bonaventure, one of the Doctors of the...

July 15, 2014

A Quick Point About Women Bishops And The Deposit Of The Faith

Did you hear the Church of England is going to ordain women bishops? This...

July 09, 2014

Of Little Red-Headed Girls And Redistribution

In the course of this excellent Mark Shea post on opposing abortion and supporting a social safety...

July 07, 2014

An Open Letter To Rob Bell

Dear Rob Bell, I love you, man. I mean it. Not in a mellifluous way....

July 04, 2014

Is Catholicism Compatible With Strawmanning?

Here's a dispatch from the New York Daily Planet (no, that's not a real newspaper): Pope Francis,...