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.

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


Abortion and the Genocide of the Black Community

Tuesday, May 17, 2022


Educated for – What?

Tuesday, May 3, 2022


The Absurd Magnificence of It All

Monday, April 18, 2022


The Works of God Made Visible

Tuesday, April 5, 2022


Ukraine’s Challenge – to Us

Wednesday, March 23, 2022


Ukraine for the Long Haul

Tuesday, March 8, 2022


The Liturgy Wars

Wednesday, February 23, 2022


What Happened After Vatican II?

Wednesday, February 9, 2022


It Has No Place Here

Tuesday, January 25, 2022


Conscience as Freedom from Truth?

Tuesday, January 11, 2022


An Incarnational World

Monday, December 27, 2021


Deconstructing the Deconstructors

Tuesday, December 14, 2021


Pornography and the Castration of Young Men

Tuesday, November 30, 2021


Pledging Allegiance to the New McCarthyism

Tuesday, November 16, 2021


Why No Science?

Tuesday, November 2, 2021