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.

Etiquette and the Common Good

Wednesday, April 25, 2018


Casting Aspersions

Thursday, April 12, 2018


A Neutral Account of Easter?

Wednesday, March 28, 2018


A Chilling Effect on Freedom of Speech

Wednesday, March 14, 2018


Know Yourself

Thursday, March 1, 2018


Meaning and Truth

Thursday, February 15, 2018


Partisan Politics Preventing Pastoral Practice

Wednesday, January 31, 2018


Im-Personal Human Beings?

Wednesday, January 17, 2018


Paying it Forward Until. . .

Wednesday, January 3, 2018


The Desert Flowers: The Gospel and Isaiah

Wednesday, December 20, 2017


The Iron Cage of Educational Bureaucracy

Wednesday, November 22, 2017


Tales from the Crypt of Catholic Education

Wednesday, November 8, 2017


Hiring for Mission . . . or Not

Wednesday, October 25, 2017


Someone (Else) Please Help the Poor

Tuesday, October 10, 2017


The Two Gears of Student Moral Discourse

Wednesday, September 27, 2017


God was Present, and So Were Rescuers

Thursday, September 14, 2017


College: What Are You Paying For?

Wednesday, August 30, 2017


St. Perpetua’s Non-Silence

Wednesday, August 16, 2017


Past Lives and Reincarnation

Wednesday, August 2, 2017


When Christ is not the Center

Wednesday, July 19, 2017


Liberal Progressivism’s Presumption

Wednesday, July 5, 2017


Preaching and the Four Senses of Scripture

Wednesday, June 21, 2017


Examination of Conscience

Wednesday, June 7, 2017


Know Thyself

Wednesday, May 24, 2017


Pictures of Two Women

Sunday, May 14, 2017


Church Disasters and Resurrections

Monday, May 8, 2017


“Let His Blood Be Upon Us”

Monday, April 24, 2017


The “Fuller Sense” of Scripture

Wednesday, April 12, 2017


Catholic Education Matters

Wednesday, March 29, 2017


Is Christianity Good for Women?

Wednesday, March 15, 2017


The Man Who Shared the Cross

Wednesday, March 1, 2017


The Gnostic God

Wednesday, February 15, 2017


The Immortality Project’s Brave New World

Wednesday, February 1, 2017


Architectural Signs of Hope

Thursday, January 19, 2017


Philemon and the New Man in Christ

Saturday, January 7, 2017


Behold Your King Comes

Wednesday, December 21, 2016


The Vagina Monologues Are Silenced

Wednesday, December 7, 2016


Debtors and Trespassers

Wednesday, November 23, 2016


I’m Sorry, I Can’t Speak That Way

Wednesday, October 26, 2016


The Answer is Always People

Wednesday, October 19, 2016


Contraception: How Far Back Does the Church Teaching Go?

Monday, September 26, 2016


The Magnet of Mediocrity

Saturday, September 17, 2016


Teaching Catholic Character?

Wednesday, August 31, 2016


The Thing People on Television Never Do

Wednesday, August 17, 2016


Beginning St. Thomas Aquinas

Saturday, August 6, 2016


The Face of the Triune God

Wednesday, July 20, 2016


Alice in Wonderland

Friday, July 8, 2016


Come Study What Jesus Didn’t Do (Even if the Bible Says He Did)

Saturday, June 18, 2016


A Traditional Catholic Wife?

Wednesday, June 1, 2016


Humankind cannot bear very much reality

Sunday, May 15, 2016