The Wittenberg Door
On the Occasion of My Dog’s Death
Not only has Magnolia crossed over. She’s managed to go bounding straight into the troubling territory of heaven.
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Four Score and Seven Years: On the discovery of time
In the spring, I was jolted into change. Because that was when I embarked upon the discovery of time.
Seeing Slant in the Company of Others
The poet, the teacher, and the student together form a chain of transmission in which what is handed down is a way of being in the world.
Humanitas: Mundane, Magnificent, and Wanting More
Leo calls us to find meaning in the mundane aspects of human life and care. In doing so, he articulates the centrality of limits in the human experience.
Building Bulwarks against Dehumanization
It may be time for willing churches to begin devoting more resources to the active pursuit of remaining human.
The Humane Localism of Pope Leo XIV
Both global solidarity and local subsidiarity are needed if we are to address the emerging technology of so-called AI in sane and humane ways.
A Much-Needed Reaction to The Dark Enlightenment
This desire to reduce liberalism to economic liberalism is taken to its extreme in the dark enlightenment.
Subsidiarity: A New Intellectual Virtue?
Responsibilities—actions, decisions, discussions—should be exercised at the level closest to the individual and only move “upward” if necessary.
Magnifica Humanitas and a Healthy Realism
Magnifica Humanitas encourages us to not give up on changing the world
A Brief Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching
At the heart of CST is the title of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical: magnificent humanity
Dessert with Darlene: The Hospitality of Widows and the Making of Membership
Throughout the epistles, the apostles in both word and deed prioritize the care of widows and summarize it as "true religion."
Why AI Will Not Replace Human Love
“Relationships” between human beings and machines are not real relationships because machines cannot relate to the experience of living a human life.
Want to Find Yourself? Volunteer In Your Church’s Nursery
To gaze into the eyes of a helpless baby was to see my actual condition as a creature laid bare.
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