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2016-03-06T18:37:29-04:00

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The Witch: The Fruits of Desire

Last updated on: March 6, 2016 at 6:37 pm By Chase Padusniak

(The following contains spoilers. And while I hope to keep them mild, if you haven’t seen the film, but plan to do so, I do not recommend reading on) By and large, The Witch, Robert Eggers’ eerie directorial debut, has been read either as a feminist tale of socially-induced self-designation or a creepy reassertion of the chilling, as opposed to the violent, in the horror genre. Neither of these is wrong, but both miss what, for me as a... Read more

2016-03-03T19:59:21-04:00

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Forgetting the Poor, We Got Trump

Last updated on: March 3, 2016 at 7:59 pm By Chase Padusniak

Non-Trump voters do not get Trump: this goes for Democrats, Republicans, most analysts, my colleagues, and just about anyone within my professional universe. He’s considered an anomaly: somehow pulling together GOP and Independent voters from across the political spectrum, challenging the evangelical Cruz and the business-as-usual Rubio. His fast-talking bravado has even his enemies voting for him, sometimes precisely because they think his reign would be so apocalyptic, it would necessarily wake America from its neoliberal slumber. A recent collation... Read more

2016-03-01T00:02:07-04:00

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The Not So Dumpf Donald Drumpf

Last updated on: March 1, 2016 at 12:02 am By Chase Padusniak

If you haven’t seen John Oliver’s methodical takedown of Trump, I recommend you check it out. Oliver believes we ought to rename him “Donald Drumpf,” because A. that was once his family’s name and B. because his power stems from his name, which emanates wealth and power. He’s like some video-game boss: find the weak spot and hit till he drops (or rather drumpfs). Oliver’s shtick could be funnier, but it might show us a way forward when it comes... Read more

2016-02-29T02:19:19-04:00

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How I Came to be Christian: Part Three

Last updated on: February 29, 2016 at 2:19 am By Chase Padusniak

(This post is part of a series. Parts one and two can be found here and here). So far, I’ve detailed how Nietzsche cleared the ground for my faith journey and how Kierkegaard started to edify something on the empty plain of my soul. Obviously words cannot exhaust my personal path, but I’d like to take this final installment to focus on a Catholic (for once), specifically Julian of Norwich. As I’ve hinted previously, systematic theology has more-or-less failed to... Read more

2016-02-29T02:10:04-04:00

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How I Came to be Christian: Part Two

Last updated on: February 29, 2016 at 2:10 am By Chase Padusniak

(This post is part of a series. Part one can be found here). If Nietzsche cleared the ground for my Christianity, sweeping away bland liberalism and all other manner of modern panaceas, Søren Kierkegaard convinced me that only Christianity could fill the void (as if it could be filled in this life). Plainly put, Kierkegaard’s writing speaks to the modern (and post-modern) experience of fragmented loneliness. As the great opponent of Hegelian systematizing, his writings display a typically Scandinavian... Read more

2016-02-25T20:34:49-04:00

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How I Came to be Christian: Part One

Last updated on: February 25, 2016 at 8:34 pm By Chase Padusniak

Today and for the next day or two I’ll focus on my journey to Christianity, with specific references to the events, thinkers, and ideas that guided me along the way. With faith, I hope doing so will acquaint readers with that journey while guiding me along the befuddling and treacherous path that is bearing the cross. I was baptized, and that’s about it. We never attended Mass, not even on Christmas and Easter. All of my catechesis and the later... Read more

2016-02-24T13:59:03-04:00

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Karl Marx: Moralist

Last updated on: February 24, 2016 at 1:59 pm By Chase Padusniak

If you’d asked me a year ago, I’m not sure I could’ve envisioned myself writing this piece, not because I never thought I’d read Marx, but because what I found was incredibly different from my expectations. Raised in a mostly secular, but still generally politically-conservative, post-Soviet environment, the idea of going near Marx was scandalous. As I became religious, the father of Communism seemed less odious (because I was no longer beholden to the strictures of American political ideologies—liberal and... Read more

2016-02-23T12:22:46-04:00

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Erotics, Difference, and Loving ISIS

Last updated on: February 23, 2016 at 12:22 pm By Chase Padusniak

We’ve officially passed St. Valentine’s Day, and, single as I am, I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on love, on what it is we desire in, from, and through others in that all-encompassing concept: love. The Greeks offer us three varieties (I omit storge here): eros, philia, and agape, loosely defined as passionate love, friendly love, and universal-divine love (though none of these definitions exhausts the Greek sense). In the Symposium, Plato’s Socrates (recounting what he has learned from... Read more

2016-02-23T12:23:50-04:00

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Pope Francis: “Donald Trump is a Protestant”

Last updated on: February 23, 2016 at 12:23 pm By Chase Padusniak

No works. Faith. No good. Or so goes the conventional Catholic understanding of justification in my untrained eyes. We are justified by faith, but if we don’t respond with works, guided by grace, well, who cares? Two Catholic Epistles, will help illustrate the point: What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food... Read more

2017-06-14T17:54:28-04:00

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Forgotten Catholics: Dom Léonce Crenier

Last updated on: June 14, 2017 at 5:54 pm By Chase Padusniak

“Léonce Crenier was as righteous and sincere, as forthright and generous during his youth with the anarchist utopians as he was in later years in his fervor as a monk.” – Monsignor Varin de la Brunellière, the Bishop of Martinique I only consider it half-a-good-thing, but I am undeniably a contrarian. George Grant, a little-known Canadian moral philosopher helped me to see my Christianity as something critical of the normal order; Piers Plowman and “Wulf and Eadwacer” are my two favorite poems,... Read more

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