Randall B. Smith is a Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His latest book is From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body.

Needed: More Good Science

Tuesday, April 16, 2024


Truly, This Man Was the Son Of God

Tuesday, April 2, 2024


Of Doing Business and Philanthropy

Tuesday, March 19, 2024


The Eucharist and Catholic Education

Tuesday, March 5, 2024


Books in Theology

Tuesday, February 20, 2024


Why Theology?

Tuesday, February 6, 2024


Eucharistic Faith and the Survey

Tuesday, January 23, 2024


The Best and Brightest?

Tuesday, January 9, 2024


Why Can’t Every Day Be Like Christmas?

Tuesday, December 26, 2023


He is Coming

Tuesday, December 12, 2023


Faith, Certainty, and Doubt

Tuesday, November 28, 2023


Updating Hypocrisy

Wednesday, November 15, 2023


Mindfulness Is Not Prayer

Tuesday, October 31, 2023


Apostolic Authority and Civic Prudence

Tuesday, October 17, 2023


Holiness and Prudence

Saturday, October 7, 2023


Ideology’s Blind Spots

Tuesday, September 19, 2023


The Logic of Belief

Tuesday, September 5, 2023


On Formal and Material Cooperation with Evil

Tuesday, August 22, 2023


God Bless America in Slovakia

Tuesday, August 8, 2023


Preaching 101

Tuesday, August 1, 2023


Forming Future Followers

Tuesday, July 11, 2023


Inside Man

Tuesday, June 27, 2023


Not Ready for Prime Time

Tuesday, June 13, 2023


Synodality without Spirit

Tuesday, May 30, 2023


Service or Status?

Tuesday, May 16, 2023


Chatting without Communicating

Tuesday, May 2, 2023


Whose Diapers? Whence Rationality?

Tuesday, April 18, 2023


Proofs for the Existence of God

Tuesday, April 4, 2023


Catering to the Obsessions of the Bourgeois Elite

Tuesday, March 21, 2023


Is Anyone Listening?

Tuesday, March 7, 2023


Progressivism and Power

Tuesday, February 21, 2023


A Means of Disowning the Past

Tuesday, February 7, 2023


Asking God for Things

Tuesday, January 24, 2023


Non-Establishment of the Church

Monday, January 9, 2023


The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Tuesday, December 27, 2022


Take Not the Name of the Church in Vain

Tuesday, December 13, 2022


Thanksgiving for a Great-Souled Man

Tuesday, November 29, 2022


Synodality? How about Better Preaching

Tuesday, November 15, 2022


From Here to Eternity

Tuesday, November 1, 2022


Medieval ‘Reductio’ vs. Modern Reductivism

Tuesday, October 18, 2022


A Eucharistic Faith

Monday, October 3, 2022


Something All Catholic Colleges and Universities Agree On

Tuesday, September 20, 2022


A Different Kind of Classroom Diversity

Tuesday, September 6, 2022


Rejecting a Culture of Lies

Wednesday, August 24, 2022


Persons vs. Human Beings

Tuesday, August 9, 2022


Looking Out at the Heavens

Tuesday, July 26, 2022


Look in the Mirror

Tuesday, July 12, 2022


The Chicago Way vs. the Catholic Way

Tuesday, June 28, 2022


The Perversities of Polling

Wednesday, June 15, 2022


Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Tuesday, May 31, 2022