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Why I Love (True) Religion Because I Love Jesus, Redux

January 6, 2014 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

This coming Sunday, Jan. 12, will be the two year anniversary of the post that has inexplicably (to me) probably been the most-read thing I’ve ever written. It’s always somewhat odd to me to note the things that get the most hits. They’re almost invariably stuff that’s more off-the-cuff than much-deliberated (like this silly post of coffee and theology jokes). (Kind of depressing, really.)…

A Tolkien-Shaped Mind

January 3, 2014April 5, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I do not know how aware most folks are of what books shape their basic imaginations—the formation that to a large part determines what brings them delight, what strikes them as worth attention, what gives them a vocabulary for the world. For me, there are really two sources that give me that shape—the Bible and the fiction works of J. R. R. Tolkien. This…

Fall Speaking Engagements: New Jersey, Georgia, SE Pennsylvania

October 9, 2013 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I’ve got several upcoming speaking engagements this Fall. If you’re in the area, I’d love to see you: October 19: Sharing Orthodoxy in the New World: Conversations on Faith with Family and Friends (a conference on Orthodox evangelism) at Assumption Orthodox Church in Clifton, New Jersey. October 26: The Church in the Bible & The Church After the Bible (two separate talks) (event page…

Thoughts from just south of Dunder Mifflin

October 8, 2013 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I watched the series finale of “The Office” (US) last night (yes, after watching the entire series). And I have to admit that I got a little sentimental at all the Jim/Pam stuff of the last few episodes. I very much appreciated that, during the course of their marriage, the writers gave them some real problems and that Pam even says in the final…

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy 20% off until Labor Day

August 29, 2013 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy is on sale for 20% off from Ancient Faith Publishing until Labor Day. If you’ve been waiting to pick it up, this is a great time to get a copy either for yourself or someone you love. Thanks for looking!

A Decade that Belongs

August 17, 2013 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Ten years ago today, Nicole Ann Boury married me. After ten years, I’m still not entirely sure why she did it. I know I haven’t always made her happy. I know I’ve many times made her unhappy. But even through all the uncertainty and instability of the past ten years—which is not very much for some, but is for us—we still belong. Over this…

Rootedness and Uprootedness: A Lament

August 13, 2013 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

In the past few weeks, I’ve learned of impending relocations of more relatives west of the Mississippi River, including one family that has been in the same state for decades and one elderly relative who has even been in the same house since the mid-1960s. One by one or in clumps, over the past several years it seems that both sides of my family…

Priest vs. Machine: Dollar Rent A Car as an Emblem of Bureaucratic Nihilism

June 3, 2013March 16, 2017 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I offer up the following experience as a data point along the continuum into deeper inhumanity because of the too-big-to-care nature of much of corporate and government life in these latter days: I recently had the misfortune of renting a car from Dollar Rent A Car at the Atlanta airport. The original estimate for the rental was $93.50 for three days’ use. But in…