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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Went to this event and one paragraph of the book really ties together my undergrad Great Books education in the early aughts:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Balthasar/Girard conference gonna be lit.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gonna be a reckoning with millennial clergy and lay leaders who assume only acceptable political orientations are “right” or “neither left nor right” (meaning right).

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICYMI: My thoughts on the converts, and what they and cradle Catholics (or less-recent converts) owe one another:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In dialogue with @heidischlumpf.bsky.social’s recent @commonwealmagazine.org essay on this topic:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Here we are importing later concepts in anachronistic fashion.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Uh, maybe some Anglo-Catholic and Lutheran churches? Pretty solidly a Catholic hymn, though formally part of the Office not the Mass.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bad news about the tense here (though not against narrative of the book). There also seems to be conflation of “religious education” and graduate-level theology.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hans “Father What a Waste” Küng.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Skimming Jesus Wept to cover my bases and

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Since there is Bishop Barron discourse, this passage of Catholicism I found doing research seems ignorant of what “The East” clearly communicates in this context. That’s setting aside his mystical interpretation, which…

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Charles Taylor in 1991 sounding a lot like @deepdishpapa.bsky.social in 2026:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

At the rainpocalypse Bob Dylan/Lucinda Williams concert that has turned into a lovely summer evening.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

J.D. forgot to include the “as long as you’re a conservative” part.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Checking in on the actual pronatalists:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Huh, interesting, I wonder if this is instructive.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Minnesota bishop very concerned about primary results in New York.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

So much of the “authentic community” in these super-Catholic towns is built around hatred and fear of the other:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Amazing essay by Katie Baker (who I learned is exactly two weeks younger than me) with this quote from Zohran:

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Line around the block for Knicks merch. #RIPModells

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is the baseball one I actually wanted.

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Daniel Rober @profdanrober.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Also vindicates my raising my kids as baseball rather than football fans (I have complete contempt for the NFL and barely tolerate college football due to having attended Notre Dame).