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March 2015

March 25, 2015

Why I Hold on to My Faith, Even Though It Hangs by a Thread

Three words into a hymn or a creed and I'm elsewhere, rudely minding my own...

March 18, 2015

Why the Church Should Oppose All Killing

If human life is sacred and inviolable at every stage and in every situation, as...

March 02, 2015

Mindless Monday Question: Aliens Edition

It's too bad you can't see a movie again for the first time, but if...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Mistborn LEGO Minifigures

Just because Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn novels haven't been adapted for the screen doesn't mean we...

February 10, 2015

What My Newest Newborn Taught Me about the World

Often while holding my infant son, he'll open his blue eyes, turn his face towards...

February 06, 2015

Netflix Is Making a Live-Action ‘Legend of Zelda’ Series: Here Is What It Should Do

First, Zelda must be the lead character and have more lines and screen time than...

February 05, 2015

Ten Bible Scenes That Should Be Made into LEGO Sets

Now that Doctor Who is getting official Lego treatment, it's time that the good book--inspired...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Radical Dependency: A Newborn’s and Our Own

What if, instead of glorifying the autonomous individual and demeaning the poor and dependent, we...

January 02, 2015

All Philosophy Is Contextual, So Every Philosopher Must Be Read in Context

However immaculate their logic, however focused they are on the pursuit of truth--philosophers reason in...

January 01, 2015

How Mary Affirmed the Impossible

Mary couldn't make intellectual sense of the angelic announcement (we kid ourselves if we think...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

How the Hobbit Movies Should Have Ended: A LEGO Version Featuring Hello Kitty

And lo, Hello Kitty came before them, riding upon an eagle and holding the Sword...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Pacifism isn’t sensible, but then neither is the Christian life

To be Christian means to be willing to sacrifice everything, even one's country, for the...

November 18, 2014

What Kim Kardashian Really Sells

Kim Kardashian sells us endless opportunities to signal to others where we stand on every...

November 17, 2014

It snowed, so of course I dressed up as Queen Elsa and danced with Olaf

Would we call this cosplay parenting? In any case, you're welcome!

November 14, 2014

A Progressive Understanding of Revelation and Religion

How a progressive approach to revelation and religious experience can help the church

November 13, 2014

Dietrich von Hildebrand against the Nazis: An Interview with John Henry Crosby

I interviewed John Henry Crosby about his translation of 'My Battle against Hitler,' a collection...

November 12, 2014

The Interpretation of Prophecy in Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’

Prophecy stories can be rather humdrum and contrived, but Miyazaki avoided the pitfalls of the...

November 06, 2014

Losing Control of the Church

What does Cardinal Burke's image of the church as a rudderless ship tells us about...

November 05, 2014

Religious Conversion in Malamud’s ‘The Assistant’

In this post, part of the Religion in Pop Culture Series, I examine the reasons...

November 04, 2014

Religion in Pop Culture Series

Starting tomorrow, I will be writing a weekly series on the representation of religion in...

November 04, 2014

Election Day Thought: Michel Foucault on Regimes of Truth

"Each society has its regime of truth, its 'general politics' of truth: that is, the...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

How Evolution Challenges the Basis of Christian Ethics

If human nature can vary and evolve, then the basis of the good can vary...

October 29, 2014

Breaking: Pope Francis Is Not an Atheist

Jerry A. Coyne seems upset that the pope isn't an atheist.

October 23, 2014

Get Medieval with Your Justice and Charity

Are acts of charity enough to solve large-scale social problems? Looking at the Middle Ages,...

October 21, 2014

Critical Dogmatism

The world informs the church's understanding of the faith and the faith illuminates its understanding...

October 17, 2014

The Possibility of Pretend Infallibility

Accepting revelation means trusting the individuals who claimed to have received revelation and the individuals...

October 15, 2014

Has the Synod Report Undermined Infallibility?

For some people who read the report or hear about it in the news, the...

October 10, 2014

The Ambiguities of Revelation

The integrity of our faith includes ambiguity. It's not a sign of some "dark and...