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The Shakeup

May 16, 2025
Pope Leo on the balcony

Since Robert Prevost became Leo XIV, we’ve been scanning his history and his papal activity to learn whatever we can about this person many of us weren’t aware of until […]

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Pope Francis’s legacy: Unbounded Faith

April 22, 2025
Vatican at night

As the world mourns Pope Francis and considers his legacy, a lot of the discussion is about borders: his insistence on the dignity of migrants and refugees who cross political […]

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Isn’t it fun?

February 24, 2025

Having taught adolescent boys for many years, I have observed the thrill of transgression up close many times (after, of course, pushing the envelope myself in all sorts of ways […]

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Beware the easy thing: on dominance and Christianity

January 9, 2025

I recently read Matthew D. Taylor’s excellent The Violent Shall Take it by Force, which describes the origins of the independent charismatic movement of Christianity that was a force behind […]

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2024: What I Read (and wrote, and sang)

December 30, 2024
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What I Read Going over my Goodreads history is a yearly reckoning: did I read *enough* (whatever that means)? Did I get out of my comfort zone? Did I learn […]

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