Catholics

• Cosmogenesis I

  I mentioned the other day that I was reading Wink's The Powers that Be in which he talks about the Myth of Redemptive Violence, which he traces back to the  primal, viciously violent battle between Marduk and Tiamat in the Enuma Elish, the Mesopotamian cosmogonic myth. And at some point I want to come back

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• Does Christianity Have a Future?

  We are all postmoderns now, and that means anything goes. The premodern, traditionalist narrative remains only a ghostly presence, and the modern Enlightenment Rationalist narrative persists merely as an old habit that we maintain for want of anything better. In such a cultural gray zone, people have shown themselves capable of believing in almost anything,

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• Zombie Traditionalism III

  What we all want is life. And this discussion about living vs. zombie traditionalism is really a discussion about how culture helps us to live or gets in the way of our living well.  A vibrant culture is one in which people are alive–deeply, richly alive. Not just physically healthy, but alive in the soul,

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• Zombie Traditionalism II

  For me the most important cultural divide is not between east and west or north and south, but between premodern and modern. In a premodern culture people live for the most part in a 'given' world and in a modern culture in a chosen world–or at least in a world where choices are forced upon

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• Part III: Ideas Matter

  My goal in what I’ve written in the "Sinning Originally" pieces is not to argue for a position; it’s rather to describe the world as it appears from within the mental framework I have developed over the years.  It contrasts dramatically with the mental framework of pagan naturalism, which has been the basic script governing

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