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January 2025

January 22, 2025

David Lynch, Mystic

“Mystics” get a bad rap these days. Casting a wide net as I prepared to...

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....

May 2018

May 02, 2018

Merciful God, Wrathful God

I recently saw someone break American Catholics down into two categories: liberal and conservative. The...

May 02, 2018

Christian Anti-Gnosticism

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

January 2018

January 11, 2018

Francis and the Benedict Option

No, not the pope, but the friar. St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the...

August 2017

August 01, 2017

Dying Before You Die

Memento Mori, the Ars Moriendi, the Danse Macabre, even Fish Fridays—the Church has developed many...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Depressive Catholicism

It would be wrong of me to identify as “depressed.” For one, I’ve never been...

May 2017

May 11, 2017

Ecclesiastes Is All We Need

Everything, absolutely everything, you consider important, all the goods to which you lay claim—it’s all...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

Pray for Nothing

When I became more rigorously Christian, I recall being plagued by the question of prayer....

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Tenebrae Laetitia

Just yesterday a post appeared on another Patheos blog called “A plea for a measure...

April 02, 2016

Mother Angelica, I Hardly Knew Ye

Mother Angelica’s repose has been a cause for personal reflection; she constituted a part of...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

Beyond Good and Evil: A Triduum Reflection

God is dead! Such is the news of Good Friday as we contemplate the visceral...

March 08, 2016

“Give all, for all is yours!”

These are the final words in the first vision of Hadewijch of Brabant (fl. early...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

How I Came to be Christian: Part Three

(This post is part of a series. Parts one and two can be found here...