Everything becomes reducible to profit: grain no longer is something which one bakes into bread, wine is no longer something one enjoys with friends, rather, it is a price and potential profit. --Roman Montero hubs.la/Q03BqKgc0

Stories make us human, as Richard Kearney provocatively argues. And, more precisely, this knowledge is narrated not in solipsistic ways, but in terms of charity, the disposition toward others, as a virtue that constitutes identity. --Daniel McClain hubs.la/Q03BqJtm0

The inner law of history, as Przywara understood, consists in the victory of Christ over the antichrist. And for Girard, Nietzsche announces the denouement of Christian history. --Philip Gonzales hubs.la/Q03Bq_gt0

The task of attending to reality is not a mere changing of the subject, but is a radical reorientation of the self, a reorientation which opens one up towards the freedom to see others as they really are. --Kathleen Cavender-McCoy hubs.la/Q03Br06Y0

The last quarter of the film Don't Look Up is the most interesting because we see the final power and poignance of choice, even when the world is doomed and death is imminent. How one is to die—this is no trivial choice. --Hannah Woldum Ragusa hubs.la/Q03Bq_gd0

Gregory stresses the importance and creative agency of human free will and envisions humans as almost co-creators of life we get to inhabit. We participate with God in our growth to maturity through the creative agency of our free will. --Vika Pechersky hubs.la/Q03Br58W0

Miracles were once read as signs of wonder (mirari). From the transit of the stars to the flight of the birds, miraculum were interpreted as spectacular manifestations of divine and holy powers crossing the horizon of visible nature. --Ryan Haecker

The fear of God in these Psalms does not mean awe in the face of the tremendous mystery of God, but the more commonplace fear of God’s “judgment” and fear that God will “punish.” Lacking this basic fear, the powerful act with impunity. --John C. Cavadini hubs.la/Q03BqSxW0

I pointed out the most important of these societies, which I have dubbed the three necessary societies: domestic society, polity, and the Church. They are necessary because without them, there cannot be human flourishing. --Russell Hittinger hubs.la/Q03BqHVW0

Modern fluidity is a result of the ninety-degree turn to univocity of being. Understood in an orthodox manner, creation, which proceeds from God and returns to him, is established by this relationality to God. --Angela Franks hubs.la/Q03Br6nT0

Three months of heart-work went into this one. My essay in Church Life Journal on Brian Wilson, Catholicism, and the spiritual life of boys. #beachboys #catholicimagination #brianwilson churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-s…

It's 930am and I still haven't fallen asleep. God only knows why. Anyway, here's a good reflection from LuElla D'Amico: churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-s…

Music is the least graspable art because it is the most immediate. It draws toward us more closely, penetrates into us more deeply than others. --Hans Urs von Balthasar hubs.la/Q03DrF8L0

In the slow process of achieving the saving poetry of which Milosz wrote, a pivotal moment was recorded in his poem To Albert Einstein. --Peter Dale Scott hubs.la/Q03DrM-_0

Severance is essentially one big seminar on the philosophy of mind, ethics, political philosophy, and social philosophy. --Pawel Rzewuski hubs.la/Q03DrXjQ0

Brian Wilson contributed to my religious awakening and offered me two unexpected gifts: a joyful attentiveness to beauty and a vision of spiritual accompaniment. --LuElla D'Amico hubs.ly/Q03DSwvM0

While the Bible shows that we are implicated in each other’s moral development, Chuck and Jimmy show us what happens when both parties renege on the responsibility. --Joshua McManaway hubs.la/Q03DrSqv0

The movie Conclave has been praised for many of its features, particularly the set and the cast, garnering it a great number of awards nominations. As in so many other areas, however, Catholics have been divided in their appreciation of the film. --William McCormick

What happened to the great countercultural icon of the 1960s? Has old age tamed him at last? In truth, however, Dylan’s interest in religion spans not only the length of his artistic career but of his entire life. --Christopher Barnett hubs.la/Q03Ds0rC0