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April 2016

April 08, 2016

Deconstructing the Corner Drugstore

If you haven't read Jeremy Beer's The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity,...

April 05, 2016

Art For An Integral Ecology

A. Vonn Hartung is a Puerto Rico-based artist who works across a variety of media, including...

April 04, 2016

Does The Environment Have Rights?

Obviously Pope Francis thinks so. As he told the UN back in 2015: “It must be stated...

April 01, 2016

Can We Just Grow Jobs?

Those of you who know me know I have a few hobby horses I come...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

Mother Maria Skobtsova, Martyr of Sobornost’

By Matthew Franklin Cooper On the 31st of March, we celebrate the dies natalis of...

March 30, 2016

Boxed In

A few years ago, my wife and I were assigned a case through our local...

March 25, 2016

Good Friday Through a Mother’s Eyes

Morning. 6:00 am You never really slept last night, and now the ache is settling...

March 23, 2016

The Passion of the Poor

"Ah, the pain, the anguish, the sin and despair, the remorse, at not living as...

March 21, 2016

What is the Opposite of a Happy Death?

In a neighboring town I have a wonderful friend Nate who serves as pastor of...

March 18, 2016

A Conversation on War, Torture, and the Limits of Evil – Part 2

[This post is a continuation of Paul Grenier's dialogue on torture and solidarity. The first...

March 16, 2016

The Next Church and How to Get There

Being a Patheos blogger, you understand, is a pretty cush deal. For example, the folks...

March 14, 2016

Insanity and Alienation in America: Revisited

On February 25th there was another "mass shooting," this time in Hesston, Kansas, just down...

March 08, 2016

Life, Death, and Community in Lockeland Springs

On January 25, my 52 year-old brother Paul was stricken by cardiogenic shock, a life-threatening...

March 07, 2016

D’Souza’s Hillarious America

We’re usually fairly serious around this blog but I want to begin by recalling one...

March 05, 2016

The Devil and Donald Trump

"It was the month of May, or the month of June, in any case summer...

March 04, 2016

Not Just Another Option

By Josh Brumfield I confess I like the Benedict Option. I am attracted to the...

March 03, 2016

Trump Trashtalk from the Fans

Our new bishop at the Diocese of Gary is a mild-mannered guy but lately he...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Book Recommendation: Poor Relief in England by Marjorie McIntosh

Consider this more of a friendly "book recommendation" than a "review." I don't wish to outline...

February 26, 2016

Distributive Justice and Economic Liberalism – Reflections on a Gentleman’s Debate

I recently attended an event hosted by the Acton Institute entitled “A Gentleman’s Debate: Distributism...

February 25, 2016

A Conversation on War, Torture, and the Limits of Evil – Part 1

The Participants Ambassador: Between stints at universities and think tanks, has enjoyed several high posts...

February 23, 2016

Francis Comes to Murderville

My friend Gerald called me about his recent trip down to Ciudad Juarez for the...

February 22, 2016

The Bright Side of Dark Times

Politics in America seems to be going off the rails. Therefore, I thought it wise...

February 19, 2016

The Useless People

The useless people in our society are not the poor or the unemployed. Most economic theories and...

February 18, 2016

Now that’s more like it…

All over the United States, poverty and homelessness have been and are being criminalized (as...

February 18, 2016

Two Roads to Gigantism

Gigantism is a condition characterized by excessive growth. In the human body, it is caused...

February 17, 2016

Gar Alperovitz on the Next System (Interview)

Gar Alperovitz, a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, is a chaired...

February 15, 2016

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!

This started out as a post on the joy of receiving seed catalogues in deep...

February 11, 2016

C.S. Lewis and the Prostitution of Work

Apropos of my previous outburst on the nature of contemporary work, it seems some clarification...

February 10, 2016

Into the Desert

"Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see,...

February 09, 2016

Ivan Illich Never Fails Me

Ivan Illich is a writer I frequently return to, not only for information and argument,...

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