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Measuring Doctrine by Poetry

One great thing about being a humanities major is that it helps you to despise all the money you’ll never make. Another great thing about it is that it prepares you for approaching religious literature in ways that, mysteriously enough, don’t seem to occur to so many people with a

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Chosen for the Sake of the Unchosen

Roger Ebert, in his review of The Prince of Egypt, expresses a notion common among moderns when he complains of God’s habit of choosing people (like Moses) and nations (like the Jews), “I have always rather thought God could have spared man a lot of trouble by casting his net more

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Harry Potter and the Christian Critics

A curious teapot tempest of the sort one only finds in the hothouse of Extremely Earnest Conservative Christianity has been going on for several years, ever since the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and the subsequent popularity of the Potter phenomenon.  Various concerns litter the landscape of Christian conversation

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About Mark Shea

Greetings! I’m Mark P. Shea, a Catholic author and blogger who’s also done a spot of podcasting and even acting here and there, as well as radio and TV work. My latest book, The Church’s Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching was published in September 2020 by New City Press. Other works include By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition (Ignatius), Mary, Mother of the SonThis is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence (Christendom), and Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did (Basilica), Salt and Light:  The Commandments, the Beatitudes, and a Joyful Life (Servant), The Heart of Catholic Prayer: Rediscovering the Our Father and the Hail Mary (Our Sunday Visitor) and The Work of Mercy:  Being the Hands and Heart of Christ (Servant).

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