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June 2024

June 30, 2024
In the past two posts, I've outlined the historical background to the arguments made by...
June 25, 2024
I just finished reading John Updike's novel Gertrude and Claudius. I had never read an...
June 17, 2024
In Part 1 of this review, I discussed the background for David Bentley Hart's arguments...
June 06, 2024
What is tradition? David Bentley Hart has a habit of saying things that I have...

May 2024

May 05, 2024
This Easter season I've been thinking about the message of the Resurrection in light of...

January 2024

January 21, 2024
  My Patheos colleague David Schloss has just published a post on the evangelical theological...

December 2023

December 31, 2023
  Remembering Benedict a year after his death The death of Pope Benedict XVI a...
December 16, 2023
  In the shadow of Lent Advent has always stood in the shadow of Lent....

April 2023

April 08, 2023
Anyone who belongs to a liturgical Christian tradition (and perhaps many who don't) has heard...

December 2022

December 12, 2022
  In my ongoing project of reading through the Hebrew Bible in the original, I'm...

November 2022

November 08, 2022
In a Facebook conversation a while ago, I made the claim that all the major...
November 03, 2022
No cliche is more common in moderate and progressive circles in our culture than the...
November 01, 2022
One of the phrases that conservative Protestants like to use about the Reformation is that...

September 2022

September 25, 2022
When I was about nine years old, a few years after having moved to the...
September 03, 2022
  August 28, the feast of St. Augustine, was of course superseded by Sunday this...

July 2022

July 08, 2022
This is part of a series responding to the 100 most common questions people have...

June 2022

June 14, 2022
Is the Trinity an embarrassment? One of the many reasons why Christians should talk to...

April 2022

April 19, 2022
  Every year during Advent and Christmas, punchy Catholic dudebros who think themselves clever clutter...

November 2021

November 29, 2021
  Mark Shea's excellent primer on Catholic social teaching has the catchy but rather odd...
November 08, 2021
  This is the time of year when people talk about the Reformation because of...

September 2021

September 19, 2021
  One of the weirdest aspects of this endless pandemic is the political polarization of...

March 2021

March 06, 2021
  This past Sunday, the Catholic lectionary juxtaposed two famous Biblical stories. In the Old...

February 2021

February 21, 2021
In grad school, I read a book called Veiled Threats by Michael Carroll, a Canadian scholar...
February 16, 2021
Did Christ become a human being or a man? According to the German bishop Franz-Josef...

January 2021

January 23, 2021
Many Catholics claim that a wide variety of issues are "prolife." I am one of...
January 11, 2021
Near the end of G. K. Chesterton's play "The Judgment of Dr. Johnson," the hero,...

December 2020

December 01, 2020
However reluctant many Trump supporters are to admit it, it now seems quite clear that...

November 2020

November 29, 2020
Over the past few weeks, during Year A of the Eucharistic lectionary, we've been hearing...
November 01, 2020
Some of my conservative evangelical friends have been upset (or perhaps even gleeful?) this past...

October 2020

October 27, 2020
Progressives are understandably in mourning due to the confirmation yesterday of Amy Coney Barrett as...
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