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June 2023

June 23, 2023

The Conman and the Preacher

Elmer Gantry (1960) is an easy movie to reduce to one of its elements. You...

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....

January 2023

January 22, 2023

The Greatest Christmas Story Ever Told

You’d have to come from a family both normal and strange to gather and watch...

January 19, 2023

Eden Undone

If you combined the stories of “Little Red Riding Hood” and Last House on the...

November 2020

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...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Nietzsche and Me

A student followed me out of class the other day; he couldn’t believe that I,...

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...

March 2018

March 22, 2018

Eastern Christianity and Orientalism

Here, by “Eastern Christianity” I mean mostly “Byzantine Christianity,” what most people know through Eastern...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

Burkini Bans are Anti-Catholic

Some French Riviera resorts (along with a few other places, including a ban on full-face...

April 2016

April 22, 2016

On Christianity after Christendom

I am no alarmist, but there is undeniably something post-Christian about our time and place...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

How I Came to be Christian: Part Two

(This post is part of a series. Part one can be found here). If...

February 20, 2016

Embracing Our Pagan Heritage

Most of the time Catholics recoil when they’re called pagans. This line, popular among fundamentalist...

February 18, 2016

Hypocrisy: A Christian Virtue

(EDIT: A friend of mine has published a response here. I actually don't think much...