Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
Religious Music and Entertainment

Archives

--Year-- 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 --Month-- December November October September August July June May April March February January

February 2020

February 03, 2020

Living Saints: Leszek

This is the second post in a series I am writing called “Living Saints.” It...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Thanks Be to God—Another Winter

It’s winter again and I should have far more of my dissertation submitted than I...

January 22, 2020

Progressive in the Sheets, Centrist in the Streets

Many are self-professedly “progressive,” but default to moderate policies because, as they say, the world...

January 21, 2020

The Medieval and the Fascist

It is, at this point, a truism that the Middle Ages fascinate the American Alt-Right....

December 2019

December 10, 2019

Living Saints: Frances

Life is hard. Everyday we wake up and do it again, coffee in hand moments...

December 05, 2019

Confessions of an Ironic Structuralist

Poetry began my love affair with literature. Discovering Donne, seeing the ways in which language...

December 04, 2019

Technocracy and Apocalypse

It’s weird to be a young man in times deemed “frightening” or “aberrant.” Does the...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

Evangelical Christianity: The American Imperial Church?

If Catholicism came to Latin America with conquistadors, evangelicalism has found its way southward through...

November 12, 2019

The Temptation of Schism

For it is the Church that gives birth to all, either within her pale, of her own...

November 04, 2019

Dare We Hope That All Men Not Be Ideologues?

I am in the midst of writing a dissertation. This often (including in my case)...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

Does What You Believe Affect What You Do?

I am a Slovak-American. This means I care about something that, I imagine, fairly few...

October 28, 2019

America’s Fifth Great Awakening

It is here and He is risen. Kanye West’s new album, Jesus is King, hit...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

Notes from the Academic Necropolis

As of late, I’ve seen a few discussions of modern college education on both Twitter...

August 16, 2019

If I Were Still Conservative

Earlier, I was listening to episode six of Know Your Enemy, a podcast about Right-side...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

How I Came to be Christian (Full Essay)

This is a consolidation of three posts I wrote a few years ago, re-posted in...

July 04, 2019

Catholic and American?

As a kid, I watched the History Channel special on the American Revolution every year....

July 03, 2019

Traditionalism, Fruit of Vatican II

Traditionalist orders and parishes are on the rise. The Dutch Dominicans are full of new...

July 02, 2019

Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy

Christianity is a communal religion; it coheres in a Church, a body of believers spiritually-...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Christ is Risen!

It is tradition in many Byzantine Churches to read from the Paschal Homily of St....

April 18, 2019

Japanese Anti-Capitalism and the Post-Christian Future

The Bad Sleep Well is my favorite film by Akira Kurosawa. As with many of...

April 15, 2019

Notre Dame de Paris is Burning

Notre Dame is perhaps the most famous cathedral in the work. And now, it’s on...

April 11, 2019

Medieval Socialism

What could this title even mean? In our day and age, “the medieval” is most...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

Donald Trump, Literature Lover

I’m no fan of Donald Trump. I wouldn’t say I’m in the #Resistance. My favorite...

March 20, 2019

Secular Religion and Our Liberal Future

A debate has been unfolding in the (digital) pages of Church Life Journal: Troutner v....

March 19, 2019

Christianity and Christchurch

First and foremost, we must pray for the victims, their families, and the assailants themselves....

December 2018

December 26, 2018

Left Faithful

The “Left” in my title is indeed political, though one could also take in the...

December 23, 2018

Jubilees

This semester I taught “The Bible as Literature” (or, I should really say, I had...

December 22, 2018

A Catholic Country?

I don’t mean to invoke the United States in my title—as much as many people...

August 2018

August 07, 2018

Being Byzantine (Catholic)

This is a tough piece to write. Not because I am ashamed of being Byzantine...

August 03, 2018

Death to the Death Penalty?

“Suppose you were to see a man who had been justly condemned being led to...

«
8
9
10
11
12
»