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October 2018

October 21, 2018

Honest apostasy vs. faithful dissent

Every so often one hears conservative Catholics (or conservative Christians generally) say that people whom...

October 07, 2018

An alternate history scenario for supporters of Brett Kavanaugh

Consider the following tale from another timeline:It was sometime during the presidency of Barack Obama....

June 2018

June 28, 2018

The American Solidarity Party: still very much alive

The political party to which I belong, the American Solidarity Party, has been going through...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

The much-heralded death of European Christianity

The Daily Mail announces breathlessly that "Christianity in Europe is dying out." This is just...

March 25, 2018

The Last Jedi: a defense and explication (lots of spoilers)

In this post, I'm going to lay out what I think the film The Last...

December 2017

December 16, 2017

Star Wars movie review–but not the one you expect

I've been working on a series of blog posts on Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation,...

December 10, 2017

Brad Gregory–Excluding God, or, It’s all the fault of Duns Scotus

(image: public domain)Chapter One of The Unintended Reformation is probably the most often cited. Indeed, many...

December 03, 2017

Silence

Several weeks ago, I finally watched Martin Scorsese's film Silence. Given the title and the...

November 2017

November 01, 2017

An appreciation of the Reformation

As usual, I'd meant to have posted more on the Reformation leading up to the...

October 2017

October 22, 2017

The Unintended Reformation, part 1

I have been meaning for some time to write a review of Brad Gregory's The...

October 20, 2017

Saving the embryos: a new variation on the “trolley problem”

My friend David Schell has asked me (and several other prolifers he knows) to respond...

October 08, 2017

Celebrating the Reformation: a reply to Sarah Condon

The Episcopal priest Sarah Condon has just written a defiant blog post expressing her frustration...

October 07, 2017

High and Low

High and Low is a 1963 movie by Akira Kurosawa which I saw a few...

September 2017

September 17, 2017

The Lives of Others

In a key scene from the 2006 German movie The Lives of Others, the playwright...

September 13, 2017

Dear Protestants, Here’s Why I Didn’t Sign the Reforming Catholic Confession, and Other Dispatches From Living Among Catholics as a Protestant Priest

My wife said yesterday, "I'd like to post this on my blog, but it isn't...

May 2017

May 12, 2017

How mere Christianity made me a Catholic

For many years now, the main rival to Catholicism for me has been the concept...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Why we need the words “conservative” and “liberal”

One often hears people say that the labels "conservative" and "liberal" aren't helpful and we...

April 11, 2017

“Missing out”: why helicopter parenting commodifies children

A friend of mine just posted on Facebook an incident in which someone berated her...

March 2017

March 13, 2017

Ben Carson is right: Slaves were immigrants

William Turner, "The Slave Ship," public domainSo the Internet went up in flames last week...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

Nazism and Christianity: a reply to Danusha Goska

John Guzlowski kindly invited me to respond to Danusha Goska's essay on the relationship of...

February 19, 2017

John McCain is right

when he warns that calling the media the "enemy" is "how dictators get started."I hear...

February 18, 2017

The Wrath of the Lamb: Why the NT is not necessarily “non-violent”

In comparative discussions of violence in Christianity and Islam, one often hears the argument that...

January 2017

January 14, 2017

The Man in the High Castle: some thoughts from a reader of the book who hasn’t seen the series

This article about the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle makes me want...

January 08, 2017

Uncircumcised in heart and ears: St. Stephen’s Practical Guide to Making Yourself Obnoxious and Disliked

The 1979 Episcopal BCP's lectionary reading for today excerpts St. Stephen's long sermon in Acts...

December 2016

December 26, 2016

No place for sadness

Rince Priebus got himself in trouble today by sending out a message referring to "the...

December 24, 2016

Guest post for a friend on the Fourth Sunday of Advent

Check out this piece I wrote for my friend Joe Martyn Ricke's website, a meditation...

December 24, 2016

Advent in Jerusalem

I ate lunch in Jerusalem twice this Advent.Not, alas, Jerusalem the city, but Jerusalem the...

December 15, 2016

Am I a conservative?

In a Facebook conversation a while ago, somebody linked to this 2012 piece by Conor...

December 12, 2016

Donald Trump and the triumph of right-wing postmodernism

When I was in grad school, involved in the graduate chapter of InterVarsity at Duke,...

November 2016

November 15, 2016

For the President-Elect: A Hallelujah

They say there was a secret chordThat Leonard played, and it pleased the Lord,But you...