Jonathan Heaps
@jonathanrheaps.bsky.social
Director, Lonergan Institute at Seton Hall University // *The Ambiguity of Being: Lonergan and the Problems of the Supernatural* (CUA Press)
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CFP: "Belief: Still Today's Issue," The International Institute for Method in Theology's Spring Colloquium. March 6-7, 2026 at Marquette University.
Submissions due Dec. 1
Submissions due Dec. 1
The aesthetics of imaginative “thoughtfulness” are really not very much like the actual experience of thinking, which is fine insofar as a poem about fire also isn’t literally hot. But when HEAT is what you need, the poem is pretty cold comfort.
I’m developing a slightly cynical or… just grumpy hunch that a lot of what passes as “intellectual” is merely imaginative. Which does have its value, but so much holding up the latter as the former is starting to smack of a subconscious aversion to the ascesis of intellectual consciousness per se.
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The aesthetics of imaginative “thoughtfulness” are really not very much like the actual experience of thinking, which is fine insofar as a poem about fire also isn’t literally hot. But when HEAT is what you need, the poem is pretty cold comfort.
I’m developing a slightly cynical or… just grumpy hunch that a lot of what passes as “intellectual” is merely imaginative. Which does have its value, but so much holding up the latter as the former is starting to smack of a subconscious aversion to the ascesis of intellectual consciousness per se.
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m developing a slightly cynical or… just grumpy hunch that a lot of what passes as “intellectual” is merely imaginative. Which does have its value, but so much holding up the latter as the former is starting to smack of a subconscious aversion to the ascesis of intellectual consciousness per se.
There’s an incredible visual allusion to The Shining in it. Worth the ticket price all on its own .
Seeing zootopia with the kids. Theater seats have clearly entered an arms race. Tempted to fully recline and sleep thru this bad boy
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There’s an incredible visual allusion to The Shining in it. Worth the ticket price all on its own .
Seeing zootopia with the kids. Theater seats have clearly entered an arms race. Tempted to fully recline and sleep thru this bad boy
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Seeing zootopia with the kids. Theater seats have clearly entered an arms race. Tempted to fully recline and sleep thru this bad boy
Trying to make higher education both democratic in terms of access and meritocratic in terms of output has been one of the most noble aspirations of our society, but I think we also severely underestimated how intrinsically challenging it is to achieve both in equal measure.
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Trying to make higher education both democratic in terms of access and meritocratic in terms of output has been one of the most noble aspirations of our society, but I think we also severely underestimated how intrinsically challenging it is to achieve both in equal measure.
A couple low quality photos of me in a college production of “Arcadia” in Stoppard’s memory
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A couple low quality photos of me in a college production of “Arcadia” in Stoppard’s memory
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"Recalling the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, they exhort all persons to collaborate in building a just and supportive world and in caring for Creation, resisting 'indifference, desire for domination, greed for profit, and xenophobia.'"
I’m not crying, you’re crying. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo and Patriarch Bartholomew reject violence in the name of God - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I sign a Joint Declaration in Istanbul reaffirming their commitment to the path toward full ...
www.vaticannews.va
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Recalling the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, they exhort all persons to collaborate in building a just and supportive world and in caring for Creation, resisting 'indifference, desire for domination, greed for profit, and xenophobia.'"
Annie is at hot yoga and I’m having pecan pie for breakfast.
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Annie is at hot yoga and I’m having pecan pie for breakfast.
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The prohibition is rather specific.
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The prohibition is rather specific.
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
“More than providing services to ‘em, taking people’s money is what makes ‘organizations real, be they formal, informal, or temporary.”
E. B. Farnum (Interim Mayor, Deadwood)
E. B. Farnum (Interim Mayor, Deadwood)
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“More than providing services to ‘em, taking people’s money is what makes ‘organizations real, be they formal, informal, or temporary.”
E. B. Farnum (Interim Mayor, Deadwood)
E. B. Farnum (Interim Mayor, Deadwood)
F everyone’s I:
All three seasons of Deadwood and the movie are in a bundle on Fandango at Home for $30
All three seasons of Deadwood and the movie are in a bundle on Fandango at Home for $30
a man with a beard and suspenders has a picture of him on the website thefuckingenius.com
ALT: a man with a beard and suspenders has a picture of him on the website thefuckingenius.com
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
F everyone’s I:
All three seasons of Deadwood and the movie are in a bundle on Fandango at Home for $30
All three seasons of Deadwood and the movie are in a bundle on Fandango at Home for $30
I am once again reminded that this is the best pecan pie recipe:
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I am once again reminded that this is the best pecan pie recipe:
Stealing forkfuls of the chipotle sweet potatoes while I wait for the turkey to cook.
Okay, Thanksgiving 2: Electric Boogaloo
Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Roast turkey breast
Kings Hawaiian rolls
Old-fashioned pecan pie
Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Roast turkey breast
Kings Hawaiian rolls
Old-fashioned pecan pie
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Stealing forkfuls of the chipotle sweet potatoes while I wait for the turkey to cook.
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Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur
As of Wed we had basically no plan for Thanksgiving, so we improvised a menu & bought groceries. Ended up only making 2/3rds the menu yesterday, so we’re circling back for a second round.
Okay, Thanksgiving 2: Electric Boogaloo
Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Roast turkey breast
Kings Hawaiian rolls
Old-fashioned pecan pie
Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Roast turkey breast
Kings Hawaiian rolls
Old-fashioned pecan pie
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
As of Wed we had basically no plan for Thanksgiving, so we improvised a menu & bought groceries. Ended up only making 2/3rds the menu yesterday, so we’re circling back for a second round.
Okay, Thanksgiving 2: Electric Boogaloo
Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Roast turkey breast
Kings Hawaiian rolls
Old-fashioned pecan pie
Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Roast turkey breast
Kings Hawaiian rolls
Old-fashioned pecan pie
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Okay, Thanksgiving 2: Electric Boogaloo
Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Roast turkey breast
Kings Hawaiian rolls
Old-fashioned pecan pie
Chipotle Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Roast turkey breast
Kings Hawaiian rolls
Old-fashioned pecan pie
What did they think “coalition of all democratic forces” was going to mean?
A tiny part of me looks forward to being scolded for reading and deploying my guy Balthasar against fascism. I can’t decide what exactly I’ll say, but it’ll be some version of “I didn’t realize fascism would wait patiently for us to use only perfect theologians and not, say, whatever we have.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What did they think “coalition of all democratic forces” was going to mean?
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Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
The former tends to be a kind of sociological category into which I don’t fit very well (especially per se theologically, where I tend to be reasonably conservative), but the latter indicates a kind of principled or philosophical position, where Catholic is primary, and liberal flows from it.
I sometimes try to clarify my view by saying I’m not exactly a liberal Catholic but I am a Catholic liberal
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The former tends to be a kind of sociological category into which I don’t fit very well (especially per se theologically, where I tend to be reasonably conservative), but the latter indicates a kind of principled or philosophical position, where Catholic is primary, and liberal flows from it.
Even as a teenager, I could see that the “worldview” discourse evangelicals adopted to articulate their difference from the wider culture was letting the camel’s nose under the tent, not matter how much they crowed about relativism.
While it was weird watching the relatively licentious left of my childhood turn moralizing & absolutist was a little weird, watching the moralizing & absolutist right become licentious & post-truth has been… *gestures at everything*
Watching the moral valence of a whole set of basic philosophical postures turn around in a big circle in the course of my life has been… dizzying.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Even as a teenager, I could see that the “worldview” discourse evangelicals adopted to articulate their difference from the wider culture was letting the camel’s nose under the tent, not matter how much they crowed about relativism.
While it was weird watching the relatively licentious left of my childhood turn moralizing & absolutist was a little weird, watching the moralizing & absolutist right become licentious & post-truth has been… *gestures at everything*
Watching the moral valence of a whole set of basic philosophical postures turn around in a big circle in the course of my life has been… dizzying.
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
While it was weird watching the relatively licentious left of my childhood turn moralizing & absolutist was a little weird, watching the moralizing & absolutist right become licentious & post-truth has been… *gestures at everything*
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In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In July, the Trump admin took the position that a 1996 law had, without anyone noticing for almost 30 years, made it so that most undocumented immigrants were not eligible to be released on bond.
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
That position has been *overwhelmingly* rejected by federal judges; 200+ of them!
Zersplitterung!!
Modernity was nice while it lasted.
Now we have atomized individualism without the individualism.
Not what I would have picked!
Now we have atomized individualism without the individualism.
Not what I would have picked!
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Zersplitterung!!