Memento Mori: On Death and Evil
Faith strangely exists amidst explicit doubts when we contemplate our death.
Springsteen, Belonging, and Religion in Blinded by the Light
To be sure, Springsteenism is an ambiguous religiosity. Springsteen, as Roops pronounces, “knows everything you’ve ever felt … and he can describe it better for you.” His music allows one to see the depth and profundity in ordinary life — to see even father-son conflict as “something as old as time,” as Manzoor says, and to respond with empathy. Springsteen himself is a role model of uncommon decency.
Pentecostal and Catholic Distinctives
How, in the first place, is the Pentecostal way of reading Scripture distinctive?
Godless Worlds: John Gray and Atheism
Gray, though consistently anti-utopian, is not necessarily nihilistic.
Trauma and the Eucharist
All the sacraments are traumatic for us. Our body is no longer completely our own, our present is interrupted by a foretaste of the eschatological banquet, and the sacraments ultimately are beyond any adequate verbal description.
An Unsentimental Family
The Holy Family's faith is neither sentimental nor easy nor even stable.
Tradition and the Puzzling Gospel of St. John
Tradition may be self-correcting.
Luke’s Lessons for Living amid Tragedy
On this feast day, St. Luke can guide us through a history tinged with disaster.