Not Ashamed at the Gates By Sam Keyes Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, * even so are the young children. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; * they shall not be ashamed when they speak with the... Read More...
The Virtues of Professional Wrestling By Neil Dhingra In terms of book-length philosophical studies of professional wrestling, Douglas Edwards’s thoroughly enjoyable Philosophy Smackdown (2020) claims to be “the first of its kind,” which makes m... Read More...
Historical Criticism is not an Operating System By Ryan Pollock I completed my undergraduate degree at a small college of the Southern Baptist Convention in Texas. This college prides itself on forming future pastors in the spirit of the so-called Conserv... Read More...
Gift of God, or Invention of the Antichrist? Church of the Ever Greater God: The Ecclesiology of Erich Pryzwara By Aaron Pidel Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020, pp. 324, $60. Review by Shaun Blanchard Fr. Aaron Pidel’s monograp... Read More...
Stabat Mater Dolorosa: The Blessed Virgin at the Foot of the Cross By Neil Dhingra Behold your son … Behold your mother. — John 19:25 We do not know where St. Mary has been, at least not since the miracle of Cana, after which Jesus had gone down to Capernaum with his fam... Read More...
Tradition and Novelty: Eli and Samuel By Sam Keyes At the start of 1 Samuel 3, the Old Testament lesson for the Second Sunday after Epiphany this year, we heard this startling line: “And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no ... Read More...
Preaching without Restrictions By Sam Keyes Coming back to the pulpit in a different church after a long hiatus can be a surreal experience. I’m sure I’m not the only one in this boat —I serve in a “diocese” after all where the vast major... Read More...
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton By Neil Dhingra Famously, Dorothy Day once said, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” The writer Robert Ellsberg, who had recorded that line, noted that Day did not want to be r... Read More...
