Saturday, March 30, 2019

Wanted: A Theology of Disobedience

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I was gratified to read this week of a French priest flatly insisting that people stop calling him 'father.' That accords with what...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Now and at the Hour of our Death

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Before and since giving a lecture at Baylor in 2015 on eschatology and funerary customs, I have kept an eye on changing Christian ideas abou...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

To Love the Church in Such an Hour as This

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Elsewhere you can read some brief thoughts of mine on how it is both possible and necessary to still love the Church and all in it even in ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Sometimes a Kiss is More Than a Kiss

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Far and away my favourite example of popes and kisses has to be Pope Paul VI who, in December 1975 fell to his knees to greet the representa...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Can Christians Escape Capitalism? Do They Want To?

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D. Stephen Long's discussion of Devin Singh's new book Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford UP, 20...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Bill Mills on the Lights and Shadows of Parish Ministry

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I have previously interviewed my friend, the Orthodox priest William Mills about his various books; you can read those interviews here , her...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Idolizing Popes While Ignoring the Abuse of Nuns

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It just so happened earlier this week that, ten minutes after reading Sylvia Poggioli's story on the NPR website about the clerical sex...

Christian Martyrs Under Islam

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There is still much to be learned about early Muslim-Christian encounters in the first generations of Islam and its gradual conquest of the ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Be Not Afraid! (II): Anglican Blurbers and Anglican Content

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As I noted in the first installment , the prospects of major structural reform to the Church make a lot of people nervous, and that anxiety ...
Monday, March 18, 2019

First Review of Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed:

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The Byzantine Catholic deacon Daniel Gordon Dozier is first out of the gate to read and review my new book, Everything Hidden Shall Be Revea...

Arabic Christian Texts in Translation

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The other day I received a welcome announcement from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University telling us of the publicati...