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November 2020

November 23, 2020

Prayer is Left

I find myself in an uneasy situation. I don't love either Donald Trump or Joe...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

How I Came to be Christian (Full Essay)

This is a consolidation of three posts I wrote a few years ago, re-posted in...

July 08, 2018

The Face of God

The following is a reflection by a dear friend of mine, Nathan Smolin, who...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

On Judgment

“A dog is better than I am, for he has love and he does not...

May 2018

May 15, 2018

Loving Oneself

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

May 14, 2018

Rigid Christianity?

Pope Francis has become notorious for (among other things) his comments on “rigid” Catholics. Unsurprisingly,...

May 02, 2018

Merciful God, Wrathful God

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

December 2017

December 06, 2017

Byzantine “Advent”

Twitter and Facebook have made it more than clear that Latin Advent has begun. Devotionals...

November 2017

November 09, 2017

A Meditation on the “Jesus Prayer”

Over a month ago I decided I’d do a series of meditations: one on the...

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....

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...

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 11, 2017

Ecclesiastes Is All We Need

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

March 2017

March 28, 2017

The Little Things

There’s a song from a show from my youth, Hey Arnold, called “The Simple Things.”...

March 01, 2017

Pray at Your Own Peril

When I first began practicing the Faith (poorly), I printed out some Bible verses during...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

The Nothingness of Lent

Lent, East and West, begins with a supposition: we are broken beings in need of...

February 25, 2017

Our Daily Bread

Not the Eucharist. I recall being in third grade, given an assignment to visualize the...

February 08, 2017

Pray for Nothing

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

August 2016

August 20, 2016

On God’s Time

Waiting weighs us down and patience demands so much. Whether it’s excitedly counting the days...

August 17, 2016

When Your Enemies Are Christians

Enemies broadly speaking anyway. This topic has stuck with me. Growing up American (read: secular),...

August 12, 2016

Pray with Icons!

For my Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox brethren, I’m preaching to the choir; the title of...

August 10, 2016

Prayers for the Bulgarian Church

A little while ago I took a little bit (not quite boiling, more like low-simmer)...

July 2016

July 17, 2016

Versus “Versus Populum”

I can’t help but laugh a bit when I hear liturgists and other Catholics speak...

July 03, 2016

On Prayer: Thoughts from Simone Weil

I recited the Our Father in Greek every day before work, and I repeated it...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

After a Tragedy: Get Off Social Media

About a week ago I chose to take a temporary break from social media, mostly...

June 12, 2016

Another Shooting: Brief Thoughts on Evil from Thomas Merton

Like most people I woke up today to horrific news: the murder of more...

March 2016

March 07, 2016

In Praise of Papal Ambiguity

Even among devout Catholics, it’s not uncommon to hear about the “damage” caused by the...