The Pope’s Subversive Encyclical?
Over at Vox Nova, I note an interesting subtlety in the pope’s new encyclical letter, which compares faith to both light and darkness and to both seeing and not seeing.
Tagged: Faith
The Finest School
“I was graduated from the finest school, which is that of the love between a parent and a child. Though the world is constructed to serve glory, success, and strength, one loves one’s parents...
Religious Faith, Universal Healthcare, and the Inevitability of Moral Dilemmas
The other day, Sarah Posner and Mollie Ziegler Hemingway discussed religious faith and the Republican National Convention on Bloggingheads. Most interesting to me in the exchange was Mollie’s arguing that Catholics opposed to the HHS...
My Secularism, Unraveling
My stance on secularism has just recently evolved. I explain how on the front page.
All Thought Begins with Faith
Tom Van Dyke, concerned that the road I’m traveling leads to skepticism and nihilism, asked me to state for the record whether anything is self-evident. I stand by my answer–I’m not sure–but I’d like...
The Final Goodbye
My day job brings me into the lives of people during moments of crisis, personal tragedy, turmoil, and loss. Both day and night I receive calls informing me that someone has died. The death...
On Being a Critical, Suspicious Son of the Church
Much to Tom Van Dyke’s seemingly apparent confusion, I take a harshly critical stance toward the mitre-wearing powers that be who run the Roman Catholic Church, the institutional faith to which I belong. As...
Defining Faith between Theism and Atheism
Eying a discussion hosted by atheist blogger Leah Libresco on whether both theists and atheists can have faith of the same sort, my friend Darwin throws his papist hat into ring, rightly noting that...
State, Violence, and Global Order
Over on the front page, Tim Kowal offers a considered meta-observation of how American power functions in the world: True, America wields a big stick in the world. But it wields it clumsily, taking...
