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May 2017

May 10, 2017

Jesus, Taxes, and Charity

It’s sadly become somewhat de rigueur, particularly but not exclusively on the American political right,...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Francis meets TED, Talks About ‘Solidarity’

How wonderful it would be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were...

April 24, 2017

My Most Grievous Fault: The Moral Problem of Wealth

"How can I make you realize the misery of the poor? How can I make...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

Find Your Own Calcutta

Myself I've never met a saint of the Church and I've only met one person...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

The Ultimate Deal: Privatizing the Presidency

Dispossessed of jobs and their dignity for a generation now or more, the Trump voters...

November 14, 2016

Shelter From the Storm

The truth is, I'm going to be just fine during the Trump Administration. I 'm holding...

August 2016

August 20, 2016

The Novena for Peace Begins Today

Eighty-one days of prayer for justice, peace, and racial reconciliation in the United States. We...

August 03, 2016

The Real Threat to Religious Liberty

Perhaps the greatest threat Trump presents to religious liberty is his abiding promise to form...

July 2016

July 04, 2016

Turning America Around

In 1976, the evangelical church of my youth celebrated the bicentennial of American independence. Since my dad...

July 02, 2016

What Wretches Feel: Neoliberalism is dying, we must replace it with something better

"The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

A Saint for a New Socioeconomic Order

Saints, G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are an antidote to whatever the age neglects. Such...

May 24, 2016

Preparing for President Trump

What I’m about write is not an exercise in partisan advocacy. I belong to neither...

May 18, 2016

Book Review: “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People”

I write today for the purpose of recommending “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants...

May 11, 2016

The Fire This Time (Revisited)

This essay is adapted from the original which appeared at Vox Nova on August 23,...

May 02, 2016

The Importance of Slow Architecture

I've not been to Las Vegas since my high school Latin group stopped there briefly...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

The Father of Catholic Social Teaching

“Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveler who has...

April 26, 2016

Who Does God REALLY Love?

I have a friend named Trish who frequently corners me after Mass to ask questions...

April 19, 2016

“Running In and Out with a Flag” (the Distributist League)

“Look here,” G.B. Shaw once gently chaffed his friend and debating partner G.K. Chesterton, “Is...

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...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Boxed In

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

March 23, 2016

The Passion of the Poor

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

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 04, 2016

Not Just Another Option

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

February 2016

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 23, 2016

Francis Comes to Murderville

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

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 08, 2016

Bankers in Hell

In 2009 I was working on a project in Chicago which put me in contact...

February 02, 2016

The Mystery of the Poor

“Christ is at once rich and poor: as God, rich; as a human person, poor....

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Encountering “the Other” on the Road

Strange as it may seem, my own journey towards the Dorothy Option began with Cormac...