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About Rodney Howsare
Rodney Howsare is Professor of Theology at DeSales University, where he has taught for 25 years. His books include Hans Urs von Balthasar and Protestantism and Balthasar: A Guide for the Perplexed. His articles have appeared in various journals including, Communio, Nova et Vetera, and Pro Ecclesia. He is currently working on an annotated version of G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy.
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NPR and the Shrinking of the Western Mind

June 18, 2025 Rodney Howsare 53

I have noticed something of a pattern with National Public Radio (NPR) lately: when they interview or feature religious persons, said persons tend also to be homosexual. In February 2023, Ashlee Green wrote a gushing […]

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Secularism and Catholic higher education in America

August 21, 2024 Rodney Howsare 18

In spite of the important work of philosophers including Alisdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, the average American still harbors a mistaken notion of the secular and its relation to classical Liberalism. While this was excusable […]

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