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June 2018

June 29, 2018

Self, suspended

Surely you know all things, since you are no-thing. You are, and all else needs...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

The resurrection of the word.

I was in the full arrogance of youth, and I wrote a poem. A friend...

May 05, 2018

Chapter 1: How he made a broken sieve whole and sound.

I think I died that day. I didn’t die, not really - but I...

March 2018

March 12, 2018

And I, when I am lifted up, will draw all things to myself

Anger against another person, Jesus says, is liable to judgment (Mt 5:22). What happens in...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

A Meditation on Prayer. Plus the Virgin Mary Appears at Some Point.

I have a ridiculously hard time praying. I probably feel like most people, who, "Instead...

August 01, 2017

You have a free will, but are you free?

There is a difference between having a will and the ability to use it. Mostly...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

And so you leave.

And so you leave our hallways, students. I can you see you up ahead of...

May 12, 2017

On Laughter

I'm not sure I knew I had a sense of humor until maybe after high...

April 2017

April 04, 2017

Benedict and His Raven

"At dinner time," Gregory the Great writes of Saint Benedict, "a raven daily used to come...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

Therapy and the Life of Faith

The other day I had to explain to my therapist what the Carolingian Renaissance is....

February 2017

February 16, 2017

Confessions of a Tribal Catholic

Every Catholic feels like they're a strange kind of Catholic, I think. No one is...

January 2017

January 11, 2017

A Galaxy Haunted (by the Jedi)

Something I loved about Rogue One was how haunted by the Jedi that universe is,...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

A Short Note on Hedgehogs

The other day, I saw a brief .gif of a little hedgehog lying on his...

November 2016

November 26, 2016

Adventus

We like victors. We like survivors. We like those who have endured darkness, and came...

November 18, 2016

When what is holy is used for what is not

One of the cases that broke open the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in...

November 11, 2016

The Power of Memory (In Politics)

Much of my work in the scholarly world lately has focused on the theme of...

November 09, 2016

Among the Hollow Men

"We are the hollow men," writes T.S. Eliot. "We are the hollow men / Leaning...

November 05, 2016

The Right To Die?

What I resent most deeply about the "right to die" movement is that it sounds...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

Oh, how we wait for one another to know more than we do.

"I'm just not getting anything out of this class." I've seen the thought on students'...

October 23, 2016

Out of the many things we lack.

I have no memory of what it is like to be unaware of my own...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Glory of the Lord, vol. I: “Introduction” (An Existential Introduction)

I am writing this to help my students, and I thought I'd share: The Mass...

September 23, 2016

Notes from a failed saint

For whatever reason, I always thought I had to live up to the extreme and...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Forgiveness takes time.

I keep reminding myself, sometimes every hour of every day: forgiveness takes time. Forgiveness is...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

The Past That Is Never Past [excerpt, “Fathers, Sons, Blood”]

The following is an excerpt from Harry Crews's essay, "Fathers, Sons, Blood." --- I picked...

July 16, 2016

The Mystery of Joan of Arc [excerpt, “Bernanos: An Ecclesial Existence”]

What follows is an excerpt from Hans Urs von Balthasar's Bernanos: An Ecclesial Existence. --- But...

June 2016

June 25, 2016

Metaxu. The Between. (On existence in the wake of violence.)

Metaxu. The between. It's an idea from philosophy, ancient and modern. It as an attempt...

June 14, 2016

The (Universal) Self-Relativizing Tradition

I don't much like explaining why I am a Catholic. As if I made some...

May 2016

May 29, 2016

Theology. Poetry. Theological Poetics.

So, I wrote this book called Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art...

May 24, 2016

Dialectical Traditionalism

We live in a modern word that bears very modern interests, and theology - well - isn't. It...

May 06, 2016

The Unrequited Beautiful

That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!)...

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