Prayer: A Poem
Lord of anxiety and small troubles, Lord of desolate mornings, I have insulted the wind and sun; forgive me. Lord of defensive motionlessness, I have slighted the…
I Can’t Eat With Jesus
Jesus is in this northern mining town he walks the street at night beneath the streetlight’s muted glow missing a few teeth. He’s always alone, and when…
Louis Auguste Sabatier and the Subjective Turn in Theological Education
The nineteenth century saw seismic shifts of emphasis and consciousness within the field of theology. Developments in other disciplines on the rise in academic authority, such as…
Meditations on Luke 14: The Essence of Freedom Revisited
Luke 14 invites us to appreciate emptiness as necessary condition for receiving the divine gift of the eternal life of the mind. Ascent to the eternal is…
Christopher Dawson’s Cultural Mind
Joseph T. Stuart. Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. The English historian…
Are There Rewards in Heaven? A Review of T. Jeff Taylor’s “More Than Heaven”
T. Jeff Taylor. More Than Heaven: A Biblical Theological Argument for a Federal View of Glorification. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2022. For we must all…
Sacred Truths in a Profane World
In America and across Europe, the business of government has been detached from religious faith. This detachment is made explicit in the First Amendment to the US Constitution,…
Mythos and History: A Review of Matthew Boulter’s “Repetition and Mythos: Ratzinger’s Bonaventure and the Meaning of History”
Matthew Boulter. Repetition and Mythos: Ratzinger's Bonaventure and the Meaning of History. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022. History, as popularly conceived, is the collection of “facts”…
Can the Rich Go to Heaven? A Lesson from Luke 18
Luke 18 opens with Jesus’s responding to his disciples’ discouragement in the face of life’s hardships. Jesus proposes a parable indicating that the question we should ask…
Mary Magdalene: A Poem
And when the fits were on me I wanted to abandon myself, strike my foot on a new mountain, sacrifice my voice. In me, the bride led…
Locke’s Religion: Foundation or Façade?
As the cracks and fissures within our society become visible, we see increasing debate about our society’s foundational principles of classical liberalism, and the man at the…
In Isaiah’s Sandals: A Poem
Thus spake the herald: Look upon this holy hill; Where the sun spills over ever so brighter, Where waters leap over rock like flying buttresses Where the…
God, Democracy, and Tocqueville: A Review of Olivier Zunz, “The Man Who Understood Democracy”
Olivier Zunz. The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Alexis de Tocqueville’s name is synonymous with democracy.…
Political-Theological Diagonalizations: A Review of Sarah Shortall’s “Soldiers of God in a Secular World
Sarah Shortall. Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. At a time when the relationship…
Our Inner Demons: A Review of Carl Trueman’s “Strange New World”
Carl R. Trueman. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked The Sexual Revolution. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022. “Things once regarded as obvious…