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February 16, 2025
The Weakness of God: A Catholic Response to Tom Oord
I've written a number of posts in the past addressing the evangelical theological movement known...
February 06, 2025
Reclaiming Natural Law in the Second Trump Era
Natural Law in the Second Trump Era In recent years I've run into a lot...
December 2024
December 15, 2024
Tradition as Disruption: Tradition and Apocalypse, Part IV
This past summer I began a series of posts reviewing David Bentley Hart's book Tradition and...
November 2024
November 13, 2024
The Witch’s Baptism: Wicked as a Catholic novel
A Good Witch Is hard to Find In college, I was assigned Flannery O'Connor's story...
June 2024
June 30, 2024
The Disruption of Development: The Problem with Newman
In the past two posts, I've outlined the historical background to the arguments made by...
June 25, 2024
Gertrude and Claudius
I just finished reading John Updike's novel Gertrude and Claudius. I had never read an...
June 17, 2024
The Development of Tradition: the background to Newman
In Part 1 of this review, I discussed the background for David Bentley Hart's arguments...
June 06, 2024
Disruptions of Tradition: Tradition and Apocalypse, Part I
What is tradition? David Bentley Hart has a habit of saying things that I have...
May 2024
May 05, 2024
Not One Dead Remains in the Grave: Easter and Universalism
This Easter season I've been thinking about the message of the Resurrection in light of...
January 2024
January 21, 2024
Open Theism, Free Will, and Catholicism
My Patheos colleague David Schloss has just published a post on the evangelical theological...
December 2023
December 31, 2023
Persons, not Individuals: The Legacy of Pope Benedict
Remembering Benedict a year after his death The death of Pope Benedict XVI a...
December 16, 2023
The Unique Beauty of Advent
In the shadow of Lent Advent has always stood in the shadow of Lent....
April 2023
April 08, 2023
Save me from the dogs: A translation of Psalm 22
Anyone who belongs to a liturgical Christian tradition (and perhaps many who don't) has heard...
December 2022
December 12, 2022
The Unbroken Bones of Jesus
In my ongoing project of reading through the Hebrew Bible in the original, I'm...
November 2022
November 08, 2022
Talking Snakes and Rational Inquiry
In a Facebook conversation a while ago, I made the claim that all the major...
November 03, 2022
Why Politics and Religion Can’t be Separated
No cliche is more common in moderate and progressive circles in our culture than the...
November 01, 2022
The One Thing the Reformation Isn’t
One of the phrases that conservative Protestants like to use about the Reformation is that...
September 2022
September 25, 2022
The Girl on the Coin: Reflections on Queen Elizabeth
When I was about nine years old, a few years after having moved to the...
September 03, 2022
St. Augustine and Humility
August 28, the feast of St. Augustine, was of course superseded by Sunday this...
July 2022
July 08, 2022
What Is Communion in Catholicism?
This is part of a series responding to the 100 most common questions people have...
June 2022
June 14, 2022
Why the Trinity saves monotheism
Is the Trinity an embarrassment? One of the many reasons why Christians should talk to...
April 2022
April 19, 2022
Punch Or Be Punched? The Crucified God and Nicea’s Long Shadow
Every year during Advent and Christmas, punchy Catholic dudebros who think themselves clever clutter...
November 2021
November 29, 2021
The Secret That Shouldn’t Be
Mark Shea's excellent primer on Catholic social teaching has the catchy but rather odd...
November 08, 2021
5 Things People Get Wrong About the Reformation
This is the time of year when people talk about the Reformation because of...
September 2021
September 19, 2021
Conservatives and Corona: Why is the Pandemic Polarized?
One of the weirdest aspects of this endless pandemic is the political polarization of...
March 2021
March 06, 2021
The Sacrifice of the Beloved Son
This past Sunday, the Catholic lectionary juxtaposed two famous Biblical stories. In the Old...
February 2021
February 21, 2021
Unveiling the Virgin
In grad school, I read a book called Veiled Threats by Michael Carroll, a Canadian scholar...
February 16, 2021
Homo factus est: Why Bishop Bode was right
Did Christ become a human being or a man? According to the German bishop Franz-Josef...
January 2021
January 23, 2021
If this isn’t a prolife issue, then nothing is
Many Catholics claim that a wide variety of issues are "prolife." I am one of...
January 11, 2021
In the Day of Disillusion
Near the end of G. K. Chesterton's play "The Judgment of Dr. Johnson," the hero,...
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