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May 2020

May 15, 2020

What Are We Willing To Sacrifice, To Get Through the Pandemic?

Will we be willing to sacrifice some of the pleasures of our precious “American” way...

May 11, 2020

How We Speak About Death

For Christians who believe in the resurrection of the body it seems evasive to talk...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

What Unites Us? How Christians Can Learn From Jews

We earlier discussed how Christians and Jews are united. Now we need to look at...

April 19, 2020

Christians And Jews: What Binds Us Together?

By guest writer Gregory Eran Gronbacher I’ve repeated this wry aphorism so many times...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Right Wing Leaders Propose Human Sacrifice To Prop Up the One Percent

What people like Dan Patrick and R.R. Reno are proposing is literally human sacrifice. That...

March 16, 2020

What Is Knowledge? Religion, Atheism, and Belief

“God,”again by definition, isn’t in any sense a thing. God is a No-thing, whatever that...

March 12, 2020

Reading Plague Novels In a Time of Pandemic

Still, King’s novel - as well as Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, and novels dealing with historical...

March 09, 2020

Variations on Atheism, and Atheists’ Views on Religion

Other atheists go a good bit beyond The New Atheism and regard religion as a...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

It’s Not the Divisiveness That Is the Problem

Dial the clock back sixty years: were we united, as a nation, at a time...

February 08, 2020

Reclaiming Our Bodies As Subjects: Women and the Objectifying Gaze

What if, instead of judging what a woman in the world represents to a particular...

February 01, 2020

Yes, This Is Who We Are: The United States and Our History of Injustice

This is who we are. We came to this continent, stole it from those who...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Trump’s Attendance At the March For Life Is Significant – But Not In the Way His Supporters Claim

With Trump as their figurehead, the pro-life movement now looks, to anyone outside his cult...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

A Year-End Retrospective: Looking Back on Failure

It is our work, heavy work, tiring work, work where we often miss our turning...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

Is There A Fundamental Flaw In the Institutional Church’s Approach To Sex Ethics?

It is notable that while the Church has often been on the forefront in issues...

October 2019

October 27, 2019

Church As Empire? This Is Not the Catholicism I Signed Up For

But what I am seeing right now is a movement in Catholicism to make it...

October 14, 2019

The Catholic Imagination, the Amazon Synod, and the Problem of Colonization

We are missing out. We are losing the opportunity to learn from Catholic artists who...

October 04, 2019

Lost In Translation: How Christians Frequently Misunderstand Judaism

How do we find unity? We try our best to love one another and engage...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

On Judging The Level of a Civilization on How It Treats Women

We speak often of “rape culture” and assume this refers to frat houses, to football...

August 2019

August 18, 2019

My Response to the Men Who Think It’s a Sin For Women To Work Outside the Home

So here's what I have to say, ultimately, to the Twitter trad-bros who are trying...

August 13, 2019

The Right Wing Is Dominant – And Real Courage Means Standing Against It

This is not a culture in which the radical left, or even a moderate left,...

May 2019

May 26, 2019

“The Things I Do For Love” – Game of Thrones, The Classics, and the Human Condition

This might seem cynical to people brought up on feel-good romances, the inheritors of our...

May 16, 2019

It’s Time to Move Past the Pro-Life / Pro-Choice Dividing Line

What if we let the jury remain out on difficult metaphysical questions about personhood, and...

April 2019

April 27, 2019

David Bentley Hart on Socialism: “Sane and Compassionate Governance”

The policies advanced by leaders such as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while...

April 05, 2019

No, the Phrase “Church Militant” Does Not Justify Militarism

The Gospel is clear about Jesus’ call to reject violence. We are admonished to love...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

Contrapasso in the Heartlands: When We Reject The Common Good

Dante’s image may seem over-the-top, but when I look at the ferocity with which my...

March 25, 2019

It’s Not About Muslim or Christian. It’s About Extremism

We need to get over thinking in terms of religious wars and conquest, get over...

February 2019

February 22, 2019

On False Accusations and Hate Crimes: What We Need to Learn from the Jussie Smollett Case

And for most of our history, false accusations have broadly been made by white people,...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

Maybe It’s Not the Book That’s the Problem. Maybe It’s You

When a person admits to being sexually aroused by that which is not intended to...

January 10, 2019

Here’s What You Need to Understand About Catholic Media Conflicts

Sometimes the conflict is not so much a conflict as it is an attack by...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

When the Church Has Failed, Victims Turn to Secular Institutions For Justice

Those who have power are usually more interested in preserving the institutional forces that scaffold...