Conciliar Post

10 min read 2021-12-15 18:08:47

The Already and the Not Yet (Part 5)

This post is part of a series exploring God’s Story: God’s Story (Part 1) | Another One Bites the Dust (Part 2) | The Long Pause (Part 3) | It Is

4 min read 2021-12-10 13:25:59

As I sat in that room, which was filled with people who had more education and experience than me, I thought, “I’m not even sure if I’m

1 min read 2021-11-22 22:39:50

Contemporary Westerners seem to believe, at least most of the time, that society is either driving forward into new territory or staying the same.

1 min read 2021-11-19 17:00:05

What is it about candles? There is no practical reason for them to exist in the developed world in the 21st century, much less for them to be as

1 min read 2021-11-12 17:00:36

In his new bestseller, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl Trueman argues that Marx, along with Nietzsche and others, contributed to the

1 min read 2021-11-10 18:08:12

This post is part of a series exploring God’s Story: God’s Story (Part 1) | Another One Bites the Dust (Part 2) | The Long Pause (Part

1 min read 2021-11-05 14:00:32

In 2018, in the midst of my PhD coursework, I wrote this reflection. I recently revisited it and found it interesting to read during a time when many

1 min read 2021-10-29 16:00:44

In some circles, there seems to be a movement against empathy. Two relatively recent articles demonstrate this: Joe Rigney’s “On the Enticing Sin

1 min read 2021-10-27 15:00:41

In the Anglican Book of Homilies, the first sermon is entitled, A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture. It begins with

1 min read 2021-10-06 16:00:14

And the question which has always been raised, in times of old and still in our day, and always embarrasses us, is ‘what is being?’ –

1 min read 2021-10-04 16:00:21

Perhaps one of the most overlooked passages in Scripture for Christian formation is the story of Creation. We are shaped so much and so obviously by

1 min read 2021-09-29 15:00:47

When I was in college, my priest gave a sermon for the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels which I still remember. “Angels are like living thoughts

1 min read 2021-09-27 16:00:37

A question I hope I’m never asked to answer before a very large audience is “what’s your favorite poem?” That’s because I’d have to admit

1 min read 2021-09-24 16:00:02

In a culture that largely likes to pretend death does not exist, there are some vocations which don’t have the option of ignoring the most

1 min read 2021-09-23 01:02:50

In his new history of Christian politics, The Two Cities, Andrew Willard Jones discerns that modern people, including Christians, erroneously divide