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Conservative Bible: Include me out

Rod Dreher calls it “insane hubris”. These right-wing ideologues know better than the early church councils that canonized Scripture? They really think it’s wise to force the word of God to conform to...

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Speaking of "Ameridolatry"…

It’s a discussion I think is really valuable, for all Christians. If we forget that we actually are living in exile, and where our true home is, we really will be lost! I link to a whole bunch of...

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Out of Iraq: the Gospel Message Writ Large – UPDATED

Our Lady of Salvation Church, Iraq In the gospels, Our Lord made it very clear that to claim His salvation and his Name was to put oneself at odds with the world. His cross is a sign of contradiction,...

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Surrender unto Surrender for Peace – UPDATED

I admit, my Tuesday column requires some patience. If you jump too quickly you’re going to think I’m saying Christians should never defend themselves. Jesus surely didn’t preach that; he didn’t preach...

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The Toxicity of Idolatry – UPDATED

My Tuesday column at First Things is up, and today we’re talking about the strange gods we put before us and the toxic effect it has had on our politics: [In Barack Obama] . . . chattering classes,...

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American Heretics Abounding

In my First Things column of last week, I quoted a small portion from Ross Douthat’s remarkable book Bad Religion; How We Became a Nation of Heretics, which will be released this week. I plan on...

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Mandates, the IDEA of America and the Worrisome Line

Someone wondered why I seem less plugged in to the “Fortnight for Freedom” than he had expected me to be. I’m not sure why he is surprised; I’ve never been much of a joiner. But he’s right. I am...

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Catholicism and Nationalism Do Not Really Mix – UPDATED

The neighborhood where I grew up was a block of “mutts”, and my own family boasted Irish-Italian-English-Scots-German muttage, but if you asked any of us “what are you?” the answer, our answer would...

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Putting Away the Labels to Hear/See Each Other

Under it’s new editor, Matt Malone, S.J., America Magazine is doing a very good thing: America aspires to nothing more than to live up to the fullest meaning of our motto, to pursue the truth in love,...

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Patheos Hits the Public Square

I am strangely remiss and should have announced this last week, but I will plead family issues and a kid with pneumonia as reasonable distractions that made me forget to tell you about Patheos’ latest...

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