Sheavings:
A Wide Ranging and Ever-Growing Collection of Articles on Everything from Soup
to Nuts Wherein the Author of This Website Holds Forth on the Great Issues of
The Day as well as offering Gallimaufries, Alarums, and Divers Occasions of Merriement and Jollification in Addition to Sundry Discourses on Matters
Whimsical, Apologetical, Fictional, Personal, Cultural, Biblical, Evangelical,
Ecumenical, Familial, Spiritual, and Philosophical.
Whimsical
A Modest Proposal
The Beginning of the Gospel of Barack Obama, the Son of God, According to Mark
Shea
Brother Darwin's Gospel Hour
Chesterton: A Spirit of Vatican II Bibliography
Corkscrew and the Art of Sloth
The Critics Rave!
The Devil in the Digital Domain
Discovering the Classics
England and the UK: A Cross-Cultural Channel Surfing Odyssey
Fisking King David
HellCo's Corporate Propaganda
Into the Heads of Babes and Sucklings
Jesus Christ Celebrates 33rd Anniversary as God Incarnate
Laughing at the Devil
The Lord of the Rings: A Source-Criticism Analysis
My Big Profound Spiritual Revelation
On Holiday
Paranoia is the Serious Business of Heaven
Playtime
Son of Discovering the Classics
The War on Liquids
Welcome to Corkscrew's Religion Chatroom!
What "Infallibility" Means
Apologetical
Almost Like Being in Love
Angels, Part 1
Angels, Part 2
Angels, Part 3
Apologetics or Apologies?
Are Sacraments Narrow?
Are Saints "New Revelation"?
Asking Questions
Because It's True
Behold the Spam of God!
The Benefits of Belief
Between the Skeptic and the Fundamentalist
Blatchford or Chesterton?: You Choose
Catholic "Officialdom" and Theological Ambiguity
Church of Sinners
Common Sense, Wisdom and Hope: Why Catholics Distinguish Between Mortal and
Venial Sin
Communion of Saints, Communion of Sinners
Dake and Unger vs. Jesus
Deceivers for Jesus
Devil Talk
Dialogue with Demas
The Discovery of the Trinity
Disgust is Not Enough
Fear of the Incarnation and Its Discontents
From Juju to the Eucharist
The Gift of Lent
How I Changed My Mind About Mary
How Tradition Gave Us the Bible
If Christ Has Not Been Raised....
The Incoherence of Atheism, Part One
The Incoherence of Atheism, Part Two
The Incoherence of Atheism, Part Three
In Defense of Theology
Indulgences: The World's Most Misunderstood Spiritual Gifts
Infallibility Doesn't Mean Never Having to Say You're Sorry
Intellectual Fisticuffs: Some Thoughts on the Apologetics Subculture
In the Breaking of the Bread
The Ironies of Grace
Is John the Author of his Gospel?
Is the Second Coming Necessary?
Is Sacramental Grace Magic?
It Didn't Go Out with Vatican II
The Latest "Real Jesus"
The Lens in My Eye (excerpted from Chapter 6 of By What Authority?)
Letters! Oh We Get Letters!
Life Imitates Art
Mariaphobic Response Syndrome: Part 1
Mariaphobic Response Syndrome: Part 2
Mary, Evolution, and Michaelangelo's Chisel
Masculine and Feminine, Evangelical and Catholic
Measuring Doctrine by Poetry
Mere Theism: The Case for God
Monotheism 101
Monotheism 102
The Mother of the Son: The Case for Marian Devotion
Of Hard Heads and Soft Hearts
Of Closed Communion and Japanese Restaurants
The Pickle of Private Judgment
Pious Fantasy and the Liberty of the Believer
Praying for Atheists
Purgatory? Where's That in the Bible?
The Real Presence and the Development of Doctrine
Rights and Gifts
Saints: Our Unseen Prayer Partners
Strange Bedfellows
"Too Much" vs. "Just Enough"
The Trinity and Real Life
Truth or Consequences
Two Kinds of Questions
What Has Jesus Changed?
What is Sacred Tradition?
What is Salvation?
Who Do You Say I Am?
Why Marian Dogma Matters So Much
Why Tithe?
What the Church Means by "Merit"
Why Catholics Don't Know What They're Talking About
Why We're Called the Catholic Church
You Can Trust Me, I'm a Psychic
More Culture Than a Petri Dish
A Catholic Look at The Truman Show
A Neat, Clean Culture of Death
America, Looking Inward
America's Swedes and Indians
Amusing Ourselves
Atheism, Christianity, and the ET Problem
At the Oscars, Every Film is a Swedish Film
Benedict in America
Be Not Afraid
Between Atheism and the New Age
Blasphemy
Capitalism, Colossians, and the Miller Brewing Company
Cartoon Jihad
Catholic Outreach Spearheads Exciting New Mission to Culture
Connecting with Postmodern Culture
Count the Cost
Courage and Laughter
The Culture of Fear
Discovering John Rhys-Davies
Down the Memory Hole
Evangelizing the Hiltonized
The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Harry Potter and the Cardinal Virtues
Harry Potter and the Christian Critics
Herod Would Be Proud
Hope for a Post-Hope World
I Can't Imagine a Dumber Song
If You've Seen One, You've Seen 'em All
I'm a Religious Skeptic
Insensitivity Training
I've Heard That Song Before
The Jessica Lynch Mob
Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie
Join My Cosmic Game of Connect the Dots
Light and Darkness
Love is Not All You Need
Materialist Magic
The Matrix
Maximus, Commodus, and Richard
Monsters from the ID!
Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be
Notes from the Generation X Files
Of Baloney and Beef
On Reality TV, Nature Documentaries and Dinosaurs
On Romance
Patriotism as a Sacramental
Patriotism as Idolatry
Phillip Pullman's Useful Idiots
Pilgrim's Progress
Pope Fiction: De-Stigmatizing the Papacy
Post-Atheism
The Practice of Patriotism
The Prince of Egypt
Prudence Amid the Fireworks
Puny Humans, Geocentrism, and ET
"Realism" vs. Reality
Reinventing the Hallowheel!
Remember the Flying Monkeys!
Response to A Guide to the Passion Stuns Even its Authors
Rush Limbaugh in the Confessional
Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Areopagus
Snow Day
SOS! I'm Becoming a Lost Junkie!
The Stupid Prime Directive
Technological Messianism
Tending the Ecosystem of the Faith
Tolkien and the Sacrament of Nature
The Uncle Walt Fallacy
The Virgin Birth and the Zeitgeist
"We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident"
We See BetterWhen We Don't Squint
We're Hardly Alone in the Universe
What Dreams May Come
What's Wrong with "Western Values"
When Judging is a Virtue
When Harry Met Frodo
Why I Love My Country
The Wonder of a Race of Poets
Would Jesus Salute the Flag?
Politics and Other Social Ills
The Acoustic Candidate
Against the Grain
Big Brother vs. Jihad
Blaming the Cure
Big Laws, Small Laws
Crabs vs. Humans
Cursed are the Peacemakers
The Dangers of Being Right
If Killing You is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right
Ignoring Just War Teaching
Intellectual Pride Makes You Stupid
Iraq and the Clash of Civilizations
Jesus and Big Think
Lefty and Righty Secular Messianism
Let's Get Realistic About Torture
Message Received
Never in a Million Years
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Problem Picture
Richard Rich Lives
Should the Bible be Taught in Public Schools?
The Speech Hillary Longed to Give
Some Advice to Moderate Muslims
Tortured Morality
Toying With Evil: May a Catholic Advocate Torture?
The Traditions of Men
War Comes Home: A Catholic Reflection
Why We Must Fight
Worlds in Collision
"You Can't Legislate Morality"
You Meet Subsidiarity in the Oddest Places
Against
Talking Hairdos, Media Ninnies, and the Spirit of the Age
AmChurch and Stockholm Syndrome
At the Core of Reality is Joy
Back to the Tradition!
Benedict is About Relationship, Not Rules
Catholic Approaches to Paganism
Catholic Church Says Same Thing as Ever: Millions Shocked
Common Knowledge
Concerning Eucharistic Desecration
The Day the Free Press Committed Suicide
Catholics and the Cult of Fun
The Coming of the Obamessiah
Compensating Cowards
Cooperating with the Creator
Dark Hour
Dispatches from Post-Christian America
Divine Hatred, Divine Love
Divine Judgment
Easter vs. Niceness
Ends and Means
Equality: It's Medicine, Not Food
Eternity and the Future
Faith and "Religion"
Fantasy Courage and Real Cowardice
Fetal Stem Cell Research: Don't Do it For the Gipper
Freedom is Scary
The Glory and Peril of Music
The Gospel According to Ann
How Will We be Remembered?
Human Beings are Not for Using
If I Comprehend All Knowledge...
It's Personal
Lay Catholics and Stockholm Syndrome
Materialist Dogmatism
Maying
Memo to the American Media: Get a Grip
The Mystery of Evil
My MSM Rules of Thumb
Not So Bright
Of the Glory of Kings and the Killing of Cats
One More Time: It's All About the Eucharist
Padding the Case for the New Atheism
The Pope as Flag
Pope Found to Be Catholic--Again
Pork Roasts, Shadow Traditions and the New Year
Pseudo-Knowledge and the Al Gore Effect
Reporting from the Trenches: The New Catholic Media
The Return to Paganism
Rubbing Salt in the Wound
Rubbish
Saved by Christ, Not by Rules
Shea's Iron Law of Media-Reported Benedictine Growth
Shea's Iron Law of New York Times Science Coverage
Shoplifting from Supernaturalism
Sin Weakens Us
Stuff Worth Knowing
Squaring the Circle
That 70s Show
Truth Cancer and the Redemption of Rebellion
Unleash the Power of the Lay Alum
Vatican Cracks Down on Devout Catholic Bus Plunges
"We Now Know"
What NBC Did for Mammon
What is a Pagan?
Who is Really Pro-Choice?
Biblical
The Allegorical Sense of Scripture
The Ambition of the Sons of Thunder
The Anagogical Sense of Scripture
Apocalypse Now
Appalling Mercy
A Tale of Two Covenants, Part One
A Tale of Two Covenants, Part Two
A Tale of Two Covenants, Part Three
A Tale of Two Covenants, Part Four
Cheating the Oracle
Chosen for the Sake of the Unchosen
Christ the King
Comfort and Affliction
Costly Grace
Discrepancies in the Gospels
End Game
Five Myths About Seven Books
The Gospel According to Steve Martin
The Gospels Ain't Fiction
The Gigantic Secret
Hearing Scripture on Its Own Terms
Hidden and Revealed
Humility
If God Can't Take It, Who Can?
Indulgences: The Spiritual Gift Nobody Understands
The Inner Ring
The Intolerable Compliment
Jonah and God's Call to Mercy
Latest Real Jesus Destroys Christianity--Again!
Lazarus and the Rich Man
The Literal Sense of Scripture
The Many Sided Gospel
Mercy
Mercy in Scripture
The Moral Sense of Scripture
The Parable of the Dishonest Steward
Paul the Convert
The Point of the Law
Prudence
Purgatory: Our Next Stop?
The Resurrection and the Life
The Sign Called Bartimaeus
The Star Out of Jacob
Striking the Rock
Strong Enough for Hope
The Temptation of Christ
Thank God for the Magisterium
Three Guidelines for Reading Scripture
Through Water to Light
To Make Dreams Come True...
The True Meaning of the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
Walk, Don't Run
Where the Bible Came From
Who Were the Magi?
The Wisdom and Folly of Solomon
The Wisdom Books: Sound Advice for the Third Millennium
The Wisdom of Wisdom 1 and 2
"Wives, Be Subject"?
The Woman Taken in Adultery
Familial
All in the Family
An Examination of Conscience for Parents
A Poem as Much as a Story
A Slightly Unseasonal Easter Tale
Beyond Tribal Faith
Big Truths for Little Kids, Part 1
Big Truths for Little Kids, Part 2
Bilbo, Frodo, and Relics
Catholic Social Teaching and the Icon of the Family
Co-Creators with Christ
Converts and Cradles
The Divine Mess of the Family
The Family as the Icon of the Holy Trinity
Family, Culture, Holidays
Green Christmas
How to No Your Kids Better
Honoring our Fathers and Mothers
Lent for Newbies
Little Kids with Big Questions
The Opposite of Cancer
Remembering How Kids Think
The Risk of Love
The Seven Deadly Sins for Parents
The Seven Virtues for Parents
Teach Your Children Well
Teaching the Theology of the Body
Unfolding the Mystery
We Could Be Living!
Ecumenical
Apollos, Priscilla, Aquila and the Glory of Eupocrisy
A Ramble Through My "New Catholic" Wish List
Discovering Wales
Eupocrisy
Evangelicalese 101
Catholics and the "F" Word
Christians in a Hostile World
Just Exactly Where Is the Church?
Letting Our Loves Meet: Ecumenism for Us Plain Old Laypeople
Masculine and Feminine in the Great Regathering
Pleading the Blood
Satan's Ecumenism
Some of You May Remember the Reformation
What's Right With This Picture?
Evangelical
All Information Superhighways Lead to Rome
Answering the Call of God
Evangelizing Like Paul
Listening Evangelism: Proclaiming the Good News with Your Ears
Siena Institute Pioneers Collaboration in the New Evangelization
UNIX for the Kingdom of God
Worshiping and Witnessing Side by Side
Spiritual
A Christian Approach to Purity
A Christmas Tip for Antichrist Hunters
Almsgiving
Apocalyptic Fooferah
Benedict and the Scandal
Benedict and the Scandal Redux
Called and Chosen
Cats and Dogs
Cautionary Tales
Clericalism
Concupiscence and the Battle of the Spirit
Conspiracy Theory
Death and Laughter
The Darkened Intellect Serves the Fallen Will
The Delusion of the Familiar
Disappointment with Christians
Doing Something About the Weather
Don't Bind God to Contracts He Never Signed
Easter and the Liberty of the Icon
Forgiveness: What's Left When the Excuses Run Out
Getting Back to Basics
Getting Past Clericalism
God's Laughter
The Hard Hope of Christmas
Holiness Therapy for the Not So Holy
How to Prepare for the End of the World
The Immaculata vs. the Philosophies of Pride
In All Things Charity
In Doubtful Things Liberty
In Essential Things Unity
In Praise of Parrot Prayer
The Interior Life of Atheism
Jesus Commands us To Forgive Unconditionally
Jesus Names Us, Not Sin
Minimum Daily Adult Requirement Christianity
More Than Our Father
The Need to Forgive
No Excuse for Not Forgiving
No Harm Will Befall You
On Mediocre Liturgy
On "Personal" Faith
The Pharisaic Approach to Purity
The Poetry of October
Praise
Priests Are Not Theological Vending Machines
Questioning in Faith
Reality vs. Ideology
The Right Tools for the Job
The Scandal of Healing
The Season of Poverty
Self Control: The Unpopular Fruit of the Spirit
The Shadow Tradition
Sin and Repentance
Singing with the Fifth Voice: A Look at Communal Prayer
Some Obstacles to Unconditional Forgiveness
Sons of This World
Spiritual Pollution, Part 1
Spiritual Pollution, Part 2
Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual Warfare, Part I
Spiritual Warfare, Part II
Spiritual Warfare, Part III
Spiritual Warfare, Part IV
Sterility and Fruitfulness
St. Therese and the Little Way
St. Thomas More
Temptation and Accusation
Those Angry Traditionalists
Unity, Liberty, Charity
What in the World is Faith Anyway?
Why Not You?
What Sort of Story Do We Live In?
Yes Virginia, There Is Clericalism
Personal
The Adventures of Parrot Man
A Washington Thanksgiving
Dale Ahlquist Interviews Mark Shea for Gilbert Magazine
Dissecting The Da Vinci Code: Interview With Apologist Mark Shea
How the Real Presence Became Real for a Convert: Mark Shea on His Evolving Belief in the Eucharist
Grace
Mark Shea Makes Senses Out of Scripture (and GKC)
Meditation on a Home Movie
The Napoleon of Queen Anne Hill
October, Stick Bugs, and Eternity
Playing Games
Putting Down Roots
Sadie Hawkins and Lent
Some Thoughts on Motu Proprio Mania
Unto Us a Child is Born
Vacation!
What Easter Means to Me
What I Learned on a Walk
Copyright 2007 - Mark P. Shea