As we enter Lent 2025 it is safe to say that the 2024 observances of the so-called Fiftieth Anniversary of the Seminex Walkout from our St. Louis seminary are done. The symposiums and conferences, the publishing, postings, and social media …
Is the pope Catholic? That question used to provide a moment of tautological fellowship for all of us, but with one terse declaration from the current pope that good-humored moment has completely evaporated. In a recent network television interview Pope …
We have not met in church, but in the lecture room. We have academic work to do… (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christ the Center). I’ve been reading Robert Coles’ little book of writings from Bonhoeffer. Here is how Coles introduces the excerpt from …
“But what is actually the matter with the modern man is that he does not know even his own philosophy; but only his own phraseology.” G.K. Chesterton, The Common Man, an essay in the book, In Defense of Sanity I would …
Are you anxious heading into the New Year? This is actually a good, healthy feeling, according to the Lutheran existentialist philosopher-poet Soren Kierkegaard. Here is a thought from his book The Concept of Anxiety. Every human being must … learn to be …
“N.I.C.E. No More” is a reference and an acronym from That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis. In Hideous Strength, N.I.C.E. stands for the “National Institute of Continuing Experimentation” that does experimentation on humans and on animals. It’s quite atrocious and …
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” John Milton, Areopagitica The First Amendment was written to guarantee that the government would not interfere with our freedom of speech. The government …
We in the United States should have listened to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Perhaps some of us, by God’s grace, still have ears to hear and the time and determination to read and take our stand in these gray and latter days. This …
With the completion of the calendar year and another regular orbit of God’s earth around God’s sun (Genesis 1:14-19), many of us are giving thought to time. For example, have a look at Augustine’s philosophy of time in Confessions, Book 11. …
The media are the message. That’s also true this week of the Feast of All Saints. So, a central (and therefore philosophical!) question is, What are the means-by-which people join the Communion of Saints in Heaven? As I wrote last …
