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August 2026

August 13, 2026

What is “Christian Nationalism”? A Reply to Dennis Knapp

Preliminary Considerations My fellow Patheos blogger Dennis Knapp of "The Latin Right" has raised an...

August 05, 2026

Love Ordered and Disordered

"Ordo Caritatis" is Not the Problem In an earlier post I explained why I can't...

June 2026

June 30, 2026

A Bum with No Connections

Slaughter-House Five This past Good Friday I did not intend to work as a substitute...

January 2026

January 23, 2026

The Order of Love

. Vance vs. the Pope Vice President J. D. Vance, a convert to Catholicism, kicked...

December 2025

December 30, 2025

The Dragon’s War and the Virgin’s Dreams

The Woman Clothed with the Sun In Revelation 12, John sees a woman clothed with...

October 2025

October 31, 2025

Why Beth Felker Jones is a Protestant, Part 2

Who are the real Catholics? In this second part of my review of Beth...

October 13, 2025

Why Beth Felker Jones is a Protestant, Part 1

And Can It Be? Beth Felker Jones is a Methodist theologian whom I have known...

June 2025

June 19, 2025

Does the Church Have a Coherent Social Justice Teaching?

Valuable lessons In a recent article on the website Word on Fire, Henry T. Edmondson III...

June 11, 2025

Where can I run from your Spirit?

Christians often lament that the Holy Spirit is the "neglected member of the Trinity." The...

February 2025

February 16, 2025

The Weakness of God: A Catholic Response to Tom Oord

I've written a number of posts in the past addressing the evangelical theological movement known...

February 06, 2025

Reclaiming Natural Law in the Second Trump Era

Natural Law in the Second Trump Era In recent years I've run into a lot...

December 2024

December 15, 2024

Tradition as Disruption: Tradition and Apocalypse, Part IV

This past summer I began a series of posts reviewing David Bentley Hart's book Tradition and...

November 2024

November 13, 2024

The Witch’s Baptism: Wicked as a Catholic novel

A Good Witch Is hard to Find In college, I was assigned Flannery O'Connor's story...

June 2024

June 30, 2024

The Disruption of Development: The Problem with Newman

In the past two posts, I've outlined the historical background to the arguments made by...

June 25, 2024

Gertrude and Claudius

I just finished reading John Updike's novel Gertrude and Claudius. I had never read an...

June 17, 2024

The Development of Tradition: the background to Newman

In Part 1 of this review, I discussed the background for David Bentley Hart's arguments...

June 06, 2024

Disruptions of Tradition: Tradition and Apocalypse, Part I

What is tradition? David Bentley Hart has a habit of saying things that I have...

May 2024

May 05, 2024

Not One Dead Remains in the Grave: Easter and Universalism

This Easter season I've been thinking about the message of the Resurrection in light of...

January 2024

January 21, 2024

Open Theism, Free Will, and Catholicism

My Patheos colleague David Schloss has just published a post on the evangelical theological...

December 2023

December 31, 2023

Persons, not Individuals: The Legacy of Pope Benedict

Remembering Benedict a year after his death The death of Pope Benedict XVI a...

December 16, 2023

The Unique Beauty of Advent

In the shadow of Lent Advent has always stood in the shadow of Lent....

April 2023

April 08, 2023

Save me from the dogs: A translation of Psalm 22

Anyone who belongs to a liturgical Christian tradition (and perhaps many who don't) has heard...

December 2022

December 12, 2022

The Unbroken Bones of Jesus

In my ongoing project of reading through the Hebrew Bible in the original, I'm...

November 2022

November 08, 2022

Talking Snakes and Rational Inquiry

In a Facebook conversation a while ago, I made the claim that all the major...

November 03, 2022

Why Politics and Religion Can’t be Separated

No cliche is more common in moderate and progressive circles in our culture than the...

November 01, 2022

The One Thing the Reformation Isn’t

One of the phrases that conservative Protestants like to use about the Reformation is that...

September 2022

September 25, 2022

The Girl on the Coin: Reflections on Queen Elizabeth

When I was about nine years old, a few years after having moved to the...

September 03, 2022

St. Augustine and Humility

August 28, the feast of St. Augustine, was of course superseded by Sunday this...

July 2022

July 08, 2022

What Is Communion in Catholicism?

This is part of a series responding to the 100 most common questions people have...

June 2022

June 14, 2022

Why the Trinity saves monotheism

Is the Trinity an embarrassment? One of the many reasons why Christians should talk to...