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Our front yard Madonnas
December 4, 2017
But the images that really kept returning to me were the statues of the Holy Family on people’s front yards.…
The perspective of the common
July 7, 2011
In liberal theory, essence is privileged over existence, reason over will, and endless discussion over decision. In political theology, things…
Truth in conflict
December 6, 2010
My previous post argued that anyone who wishes both to think well and to feel well about the world should…
Obama’s living virtues
May 14, 2009
Obama's list of virtues comes in pairs, and the pairings are mutually illuminating. I will, though, examine them not in…
“Out of many, one”
May 12, 2009
That devotion to the theme "E Pluribus Unum," "out of many, one," is among the things that are old in…