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February 2023

February 28, 2023

Apostasy, Scandal, and a Road Well-Trod

In recent years, I have mostly avoided weighing in on specific religious issues or controversies....

June 2022

June 28, 2022

Is Biden Catholic?

Outside of the modern United States this would seem a relatively open-and-shut question. Anyone baptized...

December 2020

December 01, 2020

Liberalism, or Rule by Technicality

When George H.W. Bush died, he was publicly lamented as “the last WASP president,” a...

November 2020

November 16, 2020

Christ Forgives Debts, so Should We

“Give all, for all is yours” has long been the tagline of my...

November 13, 2020

Political Christianity: Body or Soul?

I spent the last couple of weeks preparing for my new podcast (Gerizim—check it out...

July 2020

July 11, 2020

The Holy Wisdom of America’s Turkey Policy

The Hagia Sophia is back in the news—this time because Turkey’s Supreme Court ruled that...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

The Religious Left and the Atheistic Right

Teaching has brought me back to Nietzsche once again. This is always a revivifying process,...

January 2020

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 04, 2019

Technocracy and Apocalypse

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

August 2019

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 02, 2019

Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy

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

April 2019

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 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 03, 2018

Death to the Death Penalty?

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

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Of Trump, Treason, and the Future of Liberalism

Steny Hoyer says that Donald Trump committed treason in Helsinki. That’s an odd sentence, but,...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

What is Catholic Social Teaching?

The following was written by my dear friend, Nathan Smolin, a PhD student in...

May 01, 2018

Mary, May, and International Workers’ Day

May First means many things. In England, it means May Poles and dancing. For Latin...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

Christian Materialism?

“Materialism” is said in many ways, almost all bad according to contemporary Christians. Sometimes it...

March 2018

March 21, 2018

Pacifism?

I’ve been thinking about this word a lot recently, in part because we read The...

March 19, 2018

The Byzantine Dorothy Day

It’s no secret that I love Dorothy Day. She has helped me make sense of...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

Catholicism, Poverty, and the Alt-Right

Journalist: What about your intellectual and cultural journey? Althusser: I encountered two men. The first...

January 09, 2018

Stewardship and the Temptations of Global Capital

A few summers ago (it’s terrifying to me that it’s been that long), I was...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

A Hermeneutics of Liberation

"Live without cares, judge no one, vex no one, and honor everyone.” – St. Ambrose...

December 22, 2017

Language Matters

This seems an obvious statement, but, as with all things obvious, it’s only so when...

December 04, 2017

Freedom: A Vexed Question

“To coerce a man is to deprive him of freedom—freedom from what? Almost every moralist...