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July 2016

July 13, 2016

Rational Faith: More working hypothesis than logical proof

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Faith and Reason....

September 2015

September 08, 2015

Starting Conversations During Francis’s Visit

Last week, I was a guest on EWTN News Nightly to talk about ways to...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Pulling Off Casual Proselytization

In this week's installment of the Pope Francis bookclub, the then-Archbishop talked about "missionary joy"...

January 07, 2014

Merry Old Christmas Day + Reflections on Modern Christmases

Merry Christmas to any readers who may belong to Orthodox churches whose liturgy follows the...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s… Evangelism?

Marvel Comics is introducing a new superheroine, Kamala Khan, who is a Muslim, and the New...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Getting a Sense of Sin

I've just finished Francis Spufford's Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional...

October 07, 2013

What All Relationships (religion included) Require

Well, I agreed with the majority of J.T. Eberhard's recent post "Joy for Joy's Sake." I,...

April 2013

April 10, 2013

Can We Play Not-Nicely Better, Please?

And speaking of sparing feelings without pulling punches, there's been a donnybrook going between Tom McDonald (Catholic) and...

January 2013

January 16, 2013

God and the Moral Law in Mormonism

After I wrote a review of The God Who Weeps, a book about Mormonism, I...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Hey, Hallquist, want to give me a one-sentence long early Christmas present?

Yesterday, I wrote a little response to Chris Hallquist's open call for comments on his...

November 28, 2012

I see your trilemma, and raise you a tetralemma!

Over at Cross Examined, Bob Seidensticker has an objection to C.S. Lewis's Trilemma, and John...

November 26, 2012

For C.S. Lewis, Deo Gratias!

Patheos invited religious bloggers to share stories about people we're thankful for who've supported us...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Why Won’t You Argue What I Know You Believe?

Yvain has been reading Feser's The Last Superstition, and he has an excellent gloss of one...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Catholic Radio Show Seeking Atheist Callers Tonight

Just saw this announcement on Facebook, and I thought some of you might want a heads-up....

September 13, 2012

Welcome Camels with Hammers to Patheos!

Patheos has added Camels with Hammers, written by philosophy professor Daniel Finke to the Atheist...

September 10, 2012

I Never Promised You an Ecstasy Garden

Since we've been discussing some Mormon perspectives on conversion and personal revelation, I've got the...

September 08, 2012

Sic ’em (politely and constructively)!

Tony Jones blogs for Patheos at Theoblogy and he's put out an open call for...

September 07, 2012

A Mormon Perspective on Interrogating Emotions

It's a guest post by Michael Haycock! He blogs aperiodically at Not a Tame Lion,...

September 01, 2012

Getting Tested on a Quasi-Catechism

I'm skipping around in JT's questions, so, today, let's take a look at #2:...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Let Augustine Move Up a Weight Class

I got to see Restless Heart, the new Augustine biopic last night. It's not yet in...

August 25, 2012

What do natural lawyers chase instead of ambulances?

Buried in the (correct) thread for discussing meta-questions about that gargantuan thread on natural law,...

August 23, 2012

Here there be Dragons [Reply to JT]

So, JT asked: 3. You undoubtedly have a logical proof of some sort for...

August 22, 2012

An Apology to JT Eberhard

It has been quite a while since the deadline I set for answering JT Eberhard's...

August 15, 2012

Q&A with Steve Dawson (Part 2)

Welcome to part two of my Q&A with Steve Dawson of the St. Paul Street Evangelization project....

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Responding to the “What are you thinking?” comments

Now that the news has gone up on some of the other atheist blogs, some...

June 18, 2012

Doing Comment Triage [check back for updates]

I really appreciate all the warm messages of support that I'm getting in the announcement...

May 2012

May 12, 2012

Which Apologetics Need Answers?

JT Eberhard of Freethought Blogs has some as-of-yet unspecified project in the works, and he's put...

May 08, 2012

Don’t Bring a Knife to a Book Fight

Whatever your religious affiliation, what's the first book you'd recommend to someone on the other side...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

Morality in Multiple Dimensions

In college, I got into a lot of debates about moral relativism, cultural imperialism, and epistemological modesty. When we...

April 10, 2012

Well, you asked for me to blockquote things I agreed with…

People who commented on this post last week might want to be careful what they...