Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
Catholic

2026-08-30T21:40:04-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

God’s Delight: Why a Perfect God Made a World

Last updated on: August 30, 2026 at 9:40 pm By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

God’s Delight Guest writer: Pilgrim. May the LORD rejoice in his works. (Psalm 104:31) The God Who Needs Nothing Genesis does not open by explaining God. It opens with Him speaking, and the first thing said of what He makes is that it is good. Again and again the verdict comes. God saw that it was good. And at the end, complete. “God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.” Before there is a doctrine... Read more

Relationships and Religion

Catholic Theology

Guest Writer

salvation

2026-08-26T10:26:45-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Whose Vision of Human Flourishing Reflects The Common Good?

Last updated on: August 26, 2026 at 10:26 am By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

Applying the Common Good Consistently to Abortion, Sexuality, Marriage, and the Rights of Children In my previous article, I asked Henry Karlson for a principled criterion distinguishing between social-justice questions that implicate the common good and sexual, familial, and “culture war” questions that he treats as largely private. Karlson answers this question in his recent piece, Charity Begins With Justice in Public Life, in which he affirms: Social justice is about creating the conditions for the members of society to... Read more

Progressive Christian

Politics and Religion

2026-08-21T18:36:24-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

How Do We Determine What Falls Under “The Common Good”?

Last updated on: August 21, 2026 at 6:36 pm By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

In a previous article, I addressed Henry Karlson’s claims about the dangers of Christian Nationalism. In that article, Karlson warns that Christianity risks becoming corrupt when Christians confuse loyalty to a political leader with loyalty to Christ. I countered that Christians do not cease to be Christians when they enter the public square or the voting booth. I also argued that some Christians, mostly progressive Christians, see no problem with advancing their own views of Christian justice in the public... Read more

Progressive Christian

Family, Parenting and Religion

2026-08-20T12:12:23-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Echoes of the Logos: On Charlie Brown and Grace

Last updated on: August 20, 2026 at 12:12 pm By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

Guest writer: Pilgrim. “The Evangelium has not abrogated legends; it has hallowed them.” (J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories) Preface A reader, capcrisis, objected when I altered a Peanuts strip to illustrate one of my arguments. He called it “a defacing of the original strip” and recommended Robert L. Short’s The Gospel According to Peanuts. He was entirely right about the first, and the second turned out to be the sort of gift only a correction can give. The irony was sharper... Read more

History and Religion

Catholic Theology

Guest Writer

2026-08-17T12:05:52-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Fighting Over the Rhetorical Woman

Last updated on: August 17, 2026 at 12:05 pm By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

Everyone Knows What a Woman Is—Until the Definition Becomes Inconvenient Currently, the WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) finds itself embroiled in a controversy involving the definition of the W in WNBA. It started when Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever commented on men playing in women’s sports. She stated: I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men. I said what I said. I think it’s... Read more

Women in Religion

2026-08-11T14:31:19-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Is It Christian Nationalist to Want Christian Civilization?

Last updated on: August 11, 2026 at 2:31 pm By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

I recently read an article by fellow Patheos Catholic writer Henry Karlson. In it, Karlson laments what he sees as the dangers of Christian Nationalism. He warns that Christianity becomes corrupted when Christians confuse loyalty to Christ with loyalty to a nation or political leader. That danger is real. A Christian cannot uncritically support his home nation as if everything it does is always right. Nor should Christians treat a particular politician as a spokesman for Christianity. Political loyalty should... Read more

Progressive Christian

Politics and Religion

Catholic Culture

Catholic Politics

Western Civilization

2026-08-10T21:21:44-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Why Catholics Who Share an Altar Still Can’t Agree

Last updated on: August 10, 2026 at 9:21 pm By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

The Carpark Argument: Musings Over the Coffee and Scones Guest writer: Pilgrim. Two people kneel side by side before the same altar, profess the same Creed, receive the same Body and Blood, and then walk out into the carpark to disagree, with real heat, about what the Church is, what she has always been, and what she ought to do next. They are not members of rival sects. They share a pope, a canon law, and on most Sunday mornings,... Read more

Progressive Christian

Politics and Religion

Catholic Theology

Catholic Church

Conservative Catholics

Progressive Catholics

2026-08-05T13:41:53-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

Where Should God Draw the Line on Allowing Suffering?

Last updated on: August 5, 2026 at 1:41 pm By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

Job’s Wife, Heaven, and the Search for a World Without Evil Recently, guest contributor Peter (Pilgrim) wrote a pair of articles on theodicy and the problem of evil (or suffering). In them, he explored why a good God allows suffering in the world, or, in his words, “how a good God can create a world with a genuine wound in it, and govern that world without either overriding its freedom or abandoning it to itself.” Many—perhaps most—of the responses to... Read more

History and Religion

2026-08-04T21:07:55-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

If God Is Good, Why Evil? A Composer and His Score

Last updated on: August 4, 2026 at 9:07 pm By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

A Christian Theodicy: The Music of Creation Guest writer: Pilgrim. This is the second of two essays that are not an attempt to explain evil away, or to reduce providence to a formula that removes the mystery from it. They are an invitation to consider how a good God can create a world with a genuine wound in it, and govern that world without either overriding its freedom or abandoning it to itself. The Question of Providence Having asked why... Read more

History and Religion

Catholic Theology

The Problem of Evil

Theodicy

2026-07-31T07:08:32-06:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

A Christian Theodicy: The Wound and the Crown

Last updated on: July 31, 2026 at 7:08 am By Dennis Knapp

0 Comments

Guest writer: Pilgrim. Preface This is the first of two essays that are not an attempt to explain evil away, or to reduce providence to a formula that removes the mystery from it. They are an invitation to consider how a good God can create a world with a genuine wound in it, and govern that world without either overriding its freedom or abandoning it to itself. Opening: The Wrong Question Ask many people why a good God permits evil,... Read more

History and Religion

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

What were the names of Eli's two corrupt sons?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Jonathan and Saul Hophni and Phinehas David and Nathan Abinadab and Shammah

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Abortion Arius Atheists Catholic Apologetics Catholic Culture Catholic History Catholic Humor Catholic Poetry Catholic Politics Catholic Theology Dr. James White Faith Alone Joe Heschmeyer Kamala Harris Martin Luther Pope Francis Preborn Children President Biden Science and Catholicism Sola Scriptura Synod of Synodality Trinity

Select a Month October 2026 September 2026 August 2026 July 2026 June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021

TRENDING AT PATHEOS Catholic