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August 2005

August 21, 2005

Pope Benedict and ecumenism

For non-Catholics, perhaps the most interesting part of World Youth Day was Pope Benedict's address...

August 14, 2005

The case for Protestantism

First of all, I'm sorry I've been away from the blog for so long. I...

June 2005

June 12, 2005

The “breakdown of Protestantism”

"John Student" asked in a comment to my last post why I thought Protestantism had...

June 05, 2005

Two extreme alternatives

In my last post, I said that I saw two basic ways of approaching the...

May 2005

May 04, 2005

Tradition and truth

One of the positive intellectual developments of the past few decades has been an increasing...

April 2005

April 20, 2005

Habemus papam!

This week, as everybody knows, the Christian world got a new Pope. I say "the...

April 03, 2005

Requiescat in pace JPII

I've spent much of the past day and a half watching coverage of the Pope's...

March 2005

March 25, 2005

Good Friday in Florida

I don't really have anything to say about the Terri Schiavo case that hasn't been...

February 2005

February 13, 2005

Two kinds of relativism

"Relativism" is one of those words that gets thrown around in our culture a lot,...

February 12, 2005

Subjectivism

Yet again, I'm provoked to blog by the discussion over at Pontifications, where some of...

January 2005

January 30, 2005

Response to Dave Armstrong

I apologize yet again for being so slow to blog. I'm currently teaching three sections...

January 30, 2005

Response to Dave Armstrong

I apologize yet again for being so slow to blog. I'm currently teaching three sections...

January 20, 2005

Two reasons for converting

In following the stimulating discussions over at Pontifications, I've become increasingly convinced that there are...

January 06, 2005

Why do I change so often

Those unfortunate persons who have taken the trouble to follow my posts on various Internet...

December 2004

December 05, 2004

The ecclesiology of limbo

S. M. Hutchens (of Touchstone magazine) recently reviewed Joseph Pearce's _C. S. Lewis and the...

November 2004

November 21, 2004

Feast of Christ the King

This is the day when Episcopalians and Methodists celebrate a 20th-century Roman Catholic feast by...

November 11, 2004

Catholicism vs. Orthodoxy

There's a discussion going on over at Pontifications regarding the relative merits of Catholicism and...

November 08, 2004

Goodness, it’s been more than a month

since I last posted. I've been very busy with a number of projects: an article...

September 2004

September 22, 2004

TV, the deductive method, and megachurches

The other night I watched an episode of the show _Seventh Heaven_, which I hadn't...

September 15, 2004

Stabat Mater

The seven sorrows of Mary, traditionally, are the following: the prophecy of Simeon (a sword...

September 15, 2004

Sept. 15–the Sorrows of Mary

Today is the day after the Feast of the Holy Cross, and in the Catholic...

September 15, 2004

Late entry–Feast of the Holy Cross

I didn't manage to get a post in yesterday, but it was the Feast of...

September 13, 2004

Welcome!

After years of hanging out on message boards and engaging in endless (and usually fruitless)...