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Feature Articles
- ‘Angelo Secchi, the Jesuit father of astrophysics’ (6 August 2018).
- ‘The Joy of Science: Discovering beauty and truth in the universe’ (4 July 2016).
- ‘Justified Reason: The collaboration of knowledge, belief and faith’ (22 September 2014).
- ‘Particles of Faith: Seeking God in Small Things’ (25 February 2013).
- ‘Wonders of the Universe: New Scientific Discoveries and Old Truths’ (16 April 2012).
Short Takes
- ‘What Moses and NASA’s Mars Rover taught me about wonder and awe’ (5 March 2021)
- ‘Mocking religion is not a requirement for scientific literacy’ (17 November 2017)
- ‘New planetary discoveries renew questions about extraterrestrial life’ (19 July 2017)
- ‘Politics needs more science—but it needs more religion too’ (16 February 2017)
On the blog The Jesuit Post (Patheos)
- ‘Being Polite about the Resurrection’ (23 April 2015)
- ‘There’s More to Man in Interstellar and The Giver’ (27 November 2014)
- ‘Salvation History: The Two Percent’ (4 November 2014)
On the blog Ibo et Non Redibo
- ‘Three Impediments to the Christian Faith that St. Augustine Overcame, and Why They Still Matter’ (27 August 2014)
- ‘Does God Answer Prayers?’ (13 August 2014)
- ‘Seatback Entertainment: Progress or Stultification?’ (28 July 2014)
- ‘The Astonishing Givenness of the World’ (16 July 2014)
- ‘Justice and Peace and Galaxies’ (2 July 2014)
- ‘Missing Mass with the Pope’ (18 June 2014)
- ‘Misology: A Most Terrible Disease’ (4 June 2014)
- ‘The Blessing of Wounded Hands’ (21 May 2014)
- ‘So, You’re Reading the Title of This Blog Entry’ (7 May 2014)
- ‘Devotions: Overcoming Our Embarrassments’ (23 April 2014)
- ‘Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and the Dominion of Man’ (11 April 2014)
- ‘Thoughts from Oxford University’ (28 March 2014)
- ‘Were Jesus & Mary Free in the Face of Temptation?’ (14 March 2014)
- ‘Last Sunday I Witnessed an Exorcism’ (28 February 2014)
- ‘The Heart of the Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet’ (14 February 2014)
- ‘God, Atoms and Horrid Red Things’ (31 January 2014)
- ‘Is Sherlock Holmes the Paragon of Human Rationality?’ (17 January 2014)
- ‘Jesus and Isaac’ (3 January 2014)
- ‘Nelson Mandela and the Embodiment a Socratic Paradox’ (20 December 2013)
- ‘Christ With Us in the Scriptures’ (6 December 2013)
- ‘Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity and the Evolution of Man’ (22 November 2013)
- ‘Knowing God’s Will: First Steps’ (8 November 2013)
- ‘Thank You, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ (25 October 2013)
- ‘The Sign of the Cross in The Silver Linings Playbook’ (11 October 2013)
- ‘Christ without Christianity?’ (27 September 2013)
- ‘Digital Wealth and Poverty’ (13 September 2013)
- ‘Contrition and the Call of the King ’ (30 August 2013)
- ‘Of Human Bondage and Belief’ (16 August 2013)
- ‘An Apology for Power’ (2 August 2013)
- ‘Shovelling for Science’ (19 July 2013)
- ‘Praying the Prayers of the Mass’ (5 July 2013)
- ‘The Strangeness of the World ’ (21 June 2013)
- ‘Jesus the Homeless’ (7 June 2013)
- ‘Love and Death in Dialogues des Carmélites’ (24 May 2013)
- ‘Downton Abbey and Human Goodness’ (10 May 2013)
- ‘Gerard Manley Hopkins and Inscape’ (26 April 2013)
- ‘Thinking with the Church’ (12 April 2013)
- ‘“Something Strange is Happening”’ (29 March 2013)
- ‘Indulgences Today’ (15 March 2013)
- ‘Two Favourite Themes of Benedict XVI We Should Remember’ (1 March 2013)
- ‘Remembering Scripture’ (15 February 2013)
- ‘Thinking Through the Evidence with Richard Dawkins’ (1 February 2013)
- ‘What I Learned from St. Thomas Aquinas’ (17 January 2013)
- ‘Rise Up!’ (4 January 2013)
- ‘The Reality of The Hobbit’ (20 December 2012)
- ‘Rejoicing in Judgement ’ (6 December 2012)
- ‘Disease and The Glory of God ’ (22 November 2012)
- ‘An Apology for the Word ‘Kingdom’’ (8 November 2012)
- ‘Reading the Bible Literally … The Right Way’ (25 October 2012)
- ‘The Second Vatican Council After Fifty Years: Unity of the Church in Lumen Gentium’ (11 October 2012)
- ‘Who Are You?’ (26 September 2012)
- ‘Is Canada a Nation of Thieves?’ (12 September 2012)
- ‘God and the Higgs Boson’ (31 August 2012)
- ‘Charlotte Brontë on Marriage’ (14 August 2012)
- ‘Impressions from Venezuela – Postlude’ (30 July 2012)
- ‘Impressions from Venezuela IV’ (16 July 2012)
- ‘Impressions from Venezuela III’ (2 July 2012)
- ‘Impressions from Venezuela II’ (14 June 2012)
- ‘Impressions from Venezuela’ (29 May 2012)
- ‘You Are a Mist’ (22 May 2012)
- ‘Collaboration and Communion’ (20 April 2012)
- ‘Choosing Books’ (1 April 2012)
- ‘Rulers and Leaders’ (24 March 2012)
- ‘Impressions of Tosca’ (4 March 2012)
On the blog igNation
- ‘The Happiest People on Earth’ (23 January 2014)
- ‘Finding Christmas in the Hollywood Theatre’ (30 December 2013)
- ‘Choosing Pre-and Post-Conciliar Narratives’ (19 July 2013)