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March 2023

March 14, 2023

Love, Not Like in the Movies

The thesis of John Cassavetes’ Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) is that most people are a...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

500 Days of Paralyzing Anxiety

It’s not giving much away to say that 500 Days of Summer (2009) is about...

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 20, 2023

Love, Death, and Mr. Joyboy

The nigher the end, the wonkier the appetite. Whether it’s Jay and Silent Bob in...

August 2022

August 04, 2022

Hallmark’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Now I finally know why all the videos I had to watch in class in...

May 2020

May 04, 2020

Inhabiting the New Normal

As with many things we talk about, American discussions of COVID-19 seem limited, limited to...

February 2020

February 07, 2020

Abusing Religious Liberty

America Magazine is reporting a victory for religious liberty. In essence, an appeals court ruled...

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...

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...

October 2019

October 28, 2019

America’s Fifth Great Awakening

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

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Christ is Risen!

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

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...

December 2018

December 23, 2018

Jubilees

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

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...

June 2018

June 14, 2018

Why Dorothy Day Matters

In a piece entitled “Dorothy Day: The Model You Want,” a friend once wrote: I...

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 15, 2018

Loving Oneself

I have spent some time lately reflecting on particular words—a short phrase really. Brevity brings...

May 02, 2018

Christian Anti-Gnosticism

At this point, “Gnosticism” is as much an accusation as a philosophy, a way anyone...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

The Narcissism of Expectations

How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

A Hermeneutics of Liberation

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

December 12, 2017

Is Love Nice?

These sorts of pieces often begin by letting the reader know where the word “nice”...

November 2017

November 02, 2017

Vanity, Vanity

I called a friend today, and after chatting about his insomnia and our mutual affection...

September 2017

September 07, 2017

A Meditation on the “Hail Mary”

As I noted the other day, I’ve been trying to be more attentive in my...

September 05, 2017

A Meditation on the “Our Father”

How glorious a prayer it is; a safe haven against all manner of anxieties and...

August 2017

August 07, 2017

Distracted Prayer

At this point, it’s trite to say that we live in a world of distractions....

July 2017

July 12, 2017

What Is Love?

Popular discourse divides the rhetoric of love into two possibilities.

June 2017

June 13, 2017

A Byzantine Morning Prayer

Would that my prayer life were not so tumultuous. All too often I oscillate between...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Against Apocalypse

Refusing to say we “know” the time is central to Christianity.