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Two podcasts for the season: What We Can Learn from the Saints at Choosing Better https://t.co/40B7ghoacJ and A Womb More Spacious than the Stars @YaleCFC

Seething with rage from this Adobe prompt.

Here's a piece on universalism (actually, it has nothing to do with universalism, but that's the only way to get people to notice anything). This piece is about Our Lady of Guadalupe (whose feast day is celebrated tomorrow), and contemplative sobriety.

Quite an astonishing find at Nicaea.

That time Jesus missed his chance to write a bestseller on universalism. "And someone said to him, 'Lord, will those who are saved be few?' And he said to them, 'Strive to enter through the narrow door...'" (Luke 13:24).

Tonight! join us @WheatonPL Register here (in person or online) https://t.co/X1yJQ4FLvU

Instead of re-litigating the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception on this Feast Day, here are two pilgrimages to places (Willesden in London https://t.co/QSFWql4XM4 & Walsingham in Norfolk https://t.co/Y3a4DAzSwg) where honor to Mary has been reverently raised up from the ruins.

@millinerd Like a fine Cohiba, he shows Hume-the-door

Shots most definitely fired.

“I am a Jew at a Catholic university who teaches that Luther understood Paul rightly” was not on my conference bingo card.

"Love what you study, study what you love. That it is all Modern Painters in a nutshell." -John Ruskin (Collected Works, Vol. 15, p. 354)

I love academia.

Join me for the Advent prayer challenge: Pray only with digital versions of attractive celebrities on your favorite app. No need to ever associate with regular Christians or darken the door of an actual church building again. Best of all we’ll call it “spiritual renewal”!

For Chicagoland locals, I worked up this fancy graphic (AI free!) for my talk entitled Miracles on Roosevelt Road... Hope to see you next Monday Dec. 8 at 7pm at the @WheatonPL (online or in person, but please do register at this link) https://t.co/BuyReQTtAi

And I mention all this (I hope) not to say hey-look-at-me-I-got-to-travel, but to remind everyone how absolutely warping North American & British theological conversations can be. We really aren’t the center, and we certainly aren’t the answer, and that’s easy to forget.

And while we American academics might boast about writing books, I met the woman (Antonia Moropoulou) who saved both Hagia Sophia & the Holy Sepulchre (she supervised the restoration, a heroic act of diplomacy). “We were protecting the tomb, but the tomb protected us,” she said.

The irony of this island conference was that it exposed the raw insularity of the conversations I’m used to. I met a serious lay Dominicans who can’t bear American Catholics who troll for converts. I met Armenian Orthodox Christians for whom Miaphysite theology is a living faith.

I spent 4 days at the Orthodox Academy of Crete where the Russians famously backed out of the Holy and Great Council of 2016 (presaging the war). Among the participants was a young Russian monk (an Augustine scholar) who was defrocked for opposing the same war. He can’t go home.

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