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2020-02-03T23:39:48-04:00

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Living Saints: Leszek

Last updated on: February 3, 2020 at 11:39 pm By Chase Padusniak

This is the second post in a series I am writing called “Living Saints.” It explores the lives of currently living people whose examples inspire us, those who keep faith alive by demonstrating that the true Christian life can, in fact, be lived. You can find the first post here. “But it is necessary to stress with sufficient insistence that faith is inseparably connected with conversion. It is a break with out life of sin, with the idols and all... Read more

2020-01-23T19:43:34-04:00

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Thanks Be to God—Another Winter

Last updated on: January 23, 2020 at 7:43 pm By Chase Padusniak

It’s winter again and I should have far more of my dissertation submitted than I do; it’s almost time to start teaching, almost time to spend five minutes twirling a cigarette, wondering why, once again, I thought this would be a good idea. Depression reigns now, people say. Our anxieties burn up inside frigid bodies afraid to move. So, we invest in mood lamps; we drink hot chocolate. But not even. Hot chocolate has a Yuletide charm, but that season... Read more

2020-01-22T20:18:36-04:00

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Progressive in the Sheets, Centrist in the Streets

Last updated on: January 22, 2020 at 8:18 pm By Chase Padusniak

Many are self-professedly “progressive,” but default to moderate policies because, as they say, the world is complicated. Sometimes you have to take half-a-loaf of bread; negotiation requires compromise after all. They say they wish they could support policies further to the Left—single payer healthcare, giving away housing to the homeless, huge cuts to military spending—but those won’t go anywhere. And so, we make do. This is no clearer than when speaking about Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Many good liberals... Read more

2020-01-21T18:57:21-04:00

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The Medieval and the Fascist

Last updated on: January 21, 2020 at 6:57 pm By Chase Padusniak

It is, at this point, a truism that the Middle Ages fascinate the American Alt-Right. “Deus Vult“ has become their slogan, so much so that the popular video game franchise Crusader Kings has dropped this tagline from its third installment. It is also, at this point, a truism that those so invested in an eleventh-century crusader battle cry get the medieval period wrong. I am not interested in re-adjudicating this conflict; it seems clear that any popular movement, steeped in nostalgia... Read more

2019-12-10T21:17:06-04:00

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Living Saints: Frances

Last updated on: December 10, 2019 at 9:17 pm By Chase Padusniak

Life is hard. Everyday we wake up and do it again, coffee in hand moments after dusting ourselves off from a half-sleepless night. We work; we try to pray. But, in the end, each day is often hard. The abstractions of faith dominate most discussions of the religion that’s supposed to keep us grounded. Politics, in many cases, is much the same. Who can retain faith and hope under such circumstances? Who can face down a corrupt, fallen world and... Read more

2019-12-05T18:26:03-04:00

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Confessions of an Ironic Structuralist

Last updated on: December 5, 2019 at 6:26 pm By Chase Padusniak

Poetry began my love affair with literature. Discovering Donne, seeing the ways in which language could be shaped, torn, and exploded, these propelled me from a kid who didn’t read to a doctoral student in an English department. My family did not (and does not) care that much for books; I was no different. I wanted to be a child psychiatrist; I wanted to help people, to get inside their heads and figure out what made them tick. That was... Read more

2019-12-04T16:33:53-04:00

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Technocracy and Apocalypse

Last updated on: December 4, 2019 at 4:33 pm By Chase Padusniak

It’s weird to be a young man in times deemed “frightening” or “aberrant.” Does the child growing up in a warzone think war is anything but normal? Can a young adult think Trump is “strange” when the dynamics behind his presidency—and the opposition to it—seem to have been in play since at least 2008, if not 2004? Still, if I abstract from my fairly limited experience, I can see that these are odd times—odd times that can teach us lessons... Read more

2019-11-14T18:14:53-04:00

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Evangelical Christianity: The American Imperial Church?

Last updated on: November 14, 2019 at 6:14 pm By Chase Padusniak

If Catholicism came to Latin America with conquistadors, evangelicalism has found its way southward through men in suits hawking some combination of Pentecostalism and the prosperity gospel. The relationship between elites, highly Americanized pastors, and the contemporary rise of right-leaning politics in the Global South is no accident. It has definite historical origins that have affected both the rise of Jair Bolsonaro and the recent regime change in Bolivia. Whatever one’s opinion on Evo Morales, it behooves us as people... Read more

2019-11-12T18:31:43-04:00

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The Temptation of Schism

Last updated on: November 12, 2019 at 6:31 pm By Chase Padusniak

For it is the Church that gives birth to all, either within her pale, of her own womb; or beyond it, of the seed of her bridegroom—either of herself, or of her handmaid. But Esau, even though born of the lawful wife, was separated from the people of God because he quarreled with his brother. And Asher, born indeed by the authority of a wife, but yet of a handmaid, was admitted to the land of promise on account of his brotherly good-will.... Read more

2019-11-04T20:35:44-04:00

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Dare We Hope That All Men Not Be Ideologues?

Last updated on: November 4, 2019 at 8:35 pm By Chase Padusniak

I am in the midst of writing a dissertation. This often (including in my case) produces a certain relationship to reading and writing: namely, it can make people (me) disinterested in works of art, literature, film, and the like. The academic world is not generally one in which “thinking” prevails. I do not mean that there are not many smart academics (most are very intelligent!); rather, I mean that, in an academy that prizes publishing above almost all else, the... Read more

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