Collected here are articles and reviews that have appeared in print, as well as a presentation of my books. There are a few interviews and some sound material, notably my reading of the Gospels in Greek, a project that remains work in progress.

Conversation with Peter Halldorf

1 November 2024 Litteraturhuset
The Norwegian version of my book on chastity carries the title that from the inception of this project has been my work title, 'Homo castus'. It is my concern to show that chastity concerns more than just sexual morality; that it refers to a way of being human that is characteristic of our essential nature. Continue reading

Zena Hitz on Religious Life

1 November 2024 First Things
Zena Hitz writes: ‘I reckon that to hold something in loving attention while reconciled to its permanent annihilation is not humanly possible’. Continue reading

Conversation with AC Wimmer

15 October 2024 CNA
Our aim is to contribute constructively - ours isn’t an angry or overwrought statement. We affirm the preciousness of life, of each person — in whom we wish to recognise a sister, a brother, a potential friend, seeing them as much as possible as God sees them, that is, with immense hope. Continue reading

Conversation with Javier Arias

9 October 2024 InfoVaticana
It is a mistake to reduce personhood to an abstraction, as if it were merely an idea in our mind, potentially changeable at will. Continue reading

Let the Wildness In

8 October 2024 The Catholic Herald
In these times of consultations and questionnaires, we are constantly asked to reflect on our responses to things. Our basic mode of understanding is self-referential. Continue reading

Conversation with Rich Moss

8 October 2024 The Heights Forum
Is there a 'crisis of masculinity' in our society? Continue reading

Conversation with Regina Einig

4 October 2024 Die Tagespost 4 October 2024
This synod could become a real game-changer. Continue reading

Conversation with Fr Adam Pawlaszczyk

2 October 2024 Gość Niedzielny nr 40
It took me years to develop the courage to speak of a 'vocation', the word at first seemed too big for me. Nonetheless, the encounter with monastic life provided in me a sense of recognition, as if it provided a resonance of myself. Continue reading

Conversation with Christoph Paul Hartmann

21 September 2024 Katholisch.de
I am convinced that we're in the middle of a cultural shift in our countries. In a certain sense the process of secularisation has now come to an end - yet the human being remains a human being, seeking meaning, beauty, and truth. Continue reading

Pastoral Letter

8 September 2024
After decades of secularisation, our nation has hit material rock bottom; we could hardly become more materialised. Yet the human being remains human, possessed of a longing for sense, truth, and substance. Continue reading

Symposion

20 August 2024 The European Conservative
How to recover a coherent conception of the human person in the face of pervasive dehumanising ideologies? A conversation with Sebastian Morello. Continue reading

Reading Genesis

14 August 2024 The Tablet
How could I have invested so much time in careful biblical study yet be left with such a tenuous sense of coherence, of how the whole thing fitted together? Continue reading

Conversation with Victoria de Julián

13 August 2024 Nuestro Tiempo
I love that moment at the beginning of a concert when each musician plays to him or herself in corporate chaos - then there's a sudden silence in which you can hear the A intoned by the oboe; and all the other instruments align themselves to it, first quietly, then with ever greater strength until, at last they are ready to start. What matters is to learn to listen out for that oboe. Continue reading

Conversation with Fr John Bayer

13 August 2024
What does it mean to be a Christian in today's tension-filled world? What is 'vocation' - and is there any point in trying to 'sublimate' desire? Continue reading

Conversation with Stig Fossum

25 May 2024 Rikspodden
It worries me that modern European usage pretty universally displays an impoverishment of vocabulary. The less able I am to draw careful distinctions between different terms, the more susceptible I am to simplifying generalisations, prejudices, and sheer silliness. Continue reading

Conversation with Johannes Wieczorek

16 May 2024
Discourse about renewal in the Church can sometimes regrettably seem like a battlefield with opposing fronts - there is no shortage of big guns with heaps of ammunition. It is important, then, to listen out for the still small voice, to look out for modest but fruitful initiatives sprouting in unlikely terrain, like wildflowers. Continue reading

Conversation with Magne Vik Ravndal

9 May 2024
It is phenomenal, this message - Get ready to live! The older I get, the more I am convinced that many people expereince a kind of arrested potential for life; they know they have it in them to exist with a higher degree of intensity than they actually do; and it can be frustrating to find that this ability is not realised. Continue reading

Conversation with Sarah de Nordwall

23 April 2024 Radio Maria England
The pedagogy of chastity presupposes frank recognition of who I am and where I am.  Continue reading

Conversation with Anna Leonardi

10 April 2024 Tracce
If I conceive of myself as the sun in a universe of extinct stars, I will always remain the sole subject of a relationship. Sure, I may realise that others exist, but I do not see them as meaningful. Continue reading

Conversation with Malina Abrahamsson

5 April 2024 Dagen
A conversation about the working out of vocation, the nature of obedience, and embodied credibility. Continue reading

Conversation with Kristine Dingstad

18 March 2024
On 15 March the Norwegian Bible Society launched its first edition of the Bible published with the 'Catholic Canon'.  Continue reading

Conversation with Thomas V. Mirus

23 February 2024
A conversation about the language of music, the meaning of chastity, the redirection of eros, the potential of human nature - and many other things. Continue reading

Conversation with Luke Coppen

14 February 2024 The Pillar
To stand one’s ground is to have the courage to keep getting up, to resist the temptation to think, ‘Oh, since I have fallen already, I may as well just wallow in the mud for a bit.’ Climacus says, ‘Don’t dawdle’ - that’s good advice. Continue reading

Conversation with Daniel Capó

10 February 2024 Ecclesia
The way to chaste integrity passes through honest confrontation with the incoherences and passions we carry. The model could be transferred to the body politic, where one tends to project these things onto others, shunning catharsis and — if you admit the term — conversion. Continue reading

A New World

19 January 2024 The Catholic Herald
Hesitation is ancient and nocturnal, the antidote to youth renewed ‘like the eagle’s’ through Paschal waters, to life in ascent. Continue reading