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 Fr Mitch Pacwa SJ

31 August 2023 EWTN
It does make you think when you realise how quickly a cultural memory, a religious memory is lost... Continue reading

Conversation with Tore Hjalmar Sævik

26 August 2023 Dagen
The peculiarly Christian contribution to the construction of a polis is to see it as a community marked, not only by a horizontal dimension, but by a vertical axis pointing heavenward. We're made for more than merely pragmatic and productive collaboration. Continue reading

Reign of Force?

23 June 2023 Dag og Tid/La Tercera
‘It is rare’, wrote Simone Weil in 1940, ‘to see misfortune fairly portrayed’. Confronted with the apparent ultimatum of force, we tend to ‘treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation’. Continue reading

Conversation with Charlotta Smeds

14 May 2023 Vatican News
What does the Gospel mean in the midst of war? How can our faith help us make sense of violence - and of our obligations when faced with it? Continue reading

Conversation with the Archbishop of Braga

29 April 2023
Have the people of our time lost the sense of the sublime? How, in this day and age, can one credibly bear Christian witness? Continue reading

Enabling Prospect

17 April 2023 La Tercera
The good news of the body’s significance and of the realisable, death-defying scope for human wholeness was entrusted to a ragged dozen people in a collective state of post-traumatic stress, not especially brilliant humanly speaking, but shorn by stark humiliation of presumption, so freed to proclaim a message that surpassed them. Continue reading

Conversation with Hannah Brockhaus

5 April 2023 CNA
The notion of the deposit of faith is very deep in the Christian understanding of transmission. It’s an extremely helpful reminder of what a bishop’s task is, namely to keep this deposit, which is vast and expansive, and introduce people to the richness contained in it. Continue reading

Conversation with Luke Coppen

1 April 2023 The Pillar
Easter proclaims that what we think of as defining our lives — transience, death, any number of wounds — is not, in fact, final; that there is a balm in Gilead healing us now and effectively obliterating all that seems to sabotage joy. We find ourselves stepping into a wholly new dimension of being, if we’ve the guts for it, and the love. Continue reading

Letter on Human Sexuality

25 March 2023 Pastoral Letter NBK
It is curious: our intensely body-conscious society in fact takes the body lightly, refusing to see it as significant of identity, supposing that the only selfhood of consequence is the one produced by subjective self-perception, as we construct ourselves in our own image.  Continue reading

Conversation with Luca Fiore

11 March 2023 Tracce 03.2023
A conversation held during the New York Encounter touching on the state of the Church, Kafka, Ildefonso Schuster, the signs of the times, gratitude, and the call to holiness.   Continue reading

Conversation with Kim Samuel

6 March 2023
Connectedness is, in my way of thinking, not necessarily positive - one can be connected to a leash, a chain, or a mobile gadget. Belonging on the other hand is dynamic, in movement, an indicator of shared purpose. Continue reading

Conversation with Luke Coppen

21 February 2023 The Pillar
Easter is the assurance that all the things that condition our lives negatively — sin, disease, enmity, hatred, warfare, mortality — all those things have been overcome, and can still be overcome, insofar as we conduct our lives in Christ and let ourselves be formed by Christian hope.  Continue reading

Conversation with Archbishop Pierre

19 February 2023 New York Encounter
What does it feel like to be created in the image of God? How do we experience it? Continue reading

Tributes to Benedict XVI

6 January 2023
He, born on Holy Saturday, had once for all anchored his life in the power of Jesus's passion, death, and resurrection. Anyone who has seen him celebrate the sacred mysteries knows how really present this power was for him. Continue reading

Conversation with Luke Coppen

20 December 2022 www.pillarcatholic.com
What is the Incarnation? What difference did it make? Continue reading

Pastoral Letter Advent 2022

11 December 2022
At Mass we take part in Christ’s saving sacrifice; we witness the influx of eternity in time; we touch the foundation of the daring prayer the priest prays on our behalf when, in the chalice, he mixes water with wine: ‘May we come to share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.’ Continue reading

Conversation with Siri Wahl-Olsen

26 November 2022 St Olav kirkeblad
Be an anarchist this Advent! Don't give in to shopping hysteria. Continue reading

Conversation with Solène Tadié

1 November 2022 National Catholic Register
To be a member of the Church is to be a member of Christ. It is also to be a member of a community - we need to make that explicit. Continue reading

Conversation with Petter Stocke-Nicolaisen

31 October 2022 St. Olav 03/2022
One way in which we can contribute constructively to online debate is by making it more reflective and thoughtful. Anyone who constantly shoots from the hip risks misfiring fatally. Continue reading

Conversation with Per Åsmund Reymert

12 October 2022 Vårt Land
The law proposal isn't just about a specific ethical matter; it concerns the relationship between state and citizens. Continue reading

On Conversion Therapy – Again

8 October 2022
The law proposal comes across as a wrestling match with a shadow. Notwithstanding its repeated use of words such as 'protect', 'help, and 'support', it appears peculiarly technocratic and inhuman. Continue reading

A Letter to the OCSO

5 September 2022
‘Anthropocentrism kills the Church and its life’. These are hard words, but words we need to hear, for we live in a self-centred world. Continue reading

Conversation with Luke Coppen

27 August 2022 The Pillar
A conversation about music, tradition, fatigue, the contemplative life, the building of community, well-balanced beer, and the time to say 'Enough'. Continue reading

A Conversation about Edith Stein

15 August 2022 Dagen
In her correspondence we encounter Edith Stein as a spiritual mother profoundly open to the experiences and needs of those whom she carried in her prayers. To be a mother or a father is precisely about enabling the growth and maturing of others. Continue reading

Preface to Perrin

11 July 2022
The challenge of owning oneself as oneself, of making peace, not just with humanity in general, but with oneself as a human specimen, is the first major combat a novice encounters. Anyone who has essayed it knows it can be fierce. Continue reading