Francis I, the new pope, has only 1 lung. Note that. Here is Aquinas on a newly relevant question: Article 6. Whether lack of members…
“Le monstre sert d’outil conceptuel, au même titre que d’autres cas limites comme l’embryon ou le cadavre, pour penser la personne humaine et les rapports…
I’m in the midst of an editing marathon right now, but to let you know I’m still alive, I’ll share this. In “Les Cynocéphales: Étude…
In this several months-long absence, I’ve been plugging away at my book manuscript in hopes of an October submission. I’m ahead of schedule, but getting…
A young man, disrespectful of institutional religion, is hailed by two women as Jesus. He allows himself to be crucified, wounded in five places. Elsewhere,…
Bernard faced two mutually incompatible tasks: to calm the squabbling of (reformist) Cistercian and (presumptively sybaritic) Cluniacs, to maintain his good relations with Peter the…
Several months ago, visiting family, someone mentioned that he had just returned from a sermon on Ezekiel 16. We asked, “what did the pastor say?”…
In my conference paper on meat and the resurrection, I quickly treated the question of animal resurrection in mainstream Christian doctrine: the answer? They don’t.…
I’m told that I’ve been away for too long. What brought me back, today, and I hope again and again, is a dispensation sealed with…
In much of his late work, Jacques Derrida characterized the question of the animal as “not one question among others” but the question that “represents…
