About

I’m an Episcopal priest in White Plains, NY.   I like to dance salsa, thus “padremambo.”

The Divine Latitude alludes to the disposition of “latitudinarianism.”

Fundamentalists, flat-earthers, and biblical inerrantists would probably put me on the heretical side of the orthodoxy scale. My heresy of choice is semi-Pelagianism. But practically speaking, I believe champagne and scones are sacraments. I have been accused of being Arminian, Erastian and Socinian, but really its just because I like a good Shiraz and cigar.

My favorite Theologians are David Bentley Hart, Rowan Williams and James Alison.

My favorite Political Thinkers are Thomas Frank and Michael Lind.

My favorite Economists are J. M. Keynes and Henry George.

My favorite Public Intellectuals are Wendell Berry, Christopher Lasch and Elaine Scarry.

Favorite Books: Blindness by Saramago, Disgrace by JM Coetzee, A Fine Balance by Rohanton Mistry. Getting Things Done by David Allen.

I think conservatives such as Hobbes, Machiavelli and Burke have a better understanding of human nature; but Marx understood culture. I tend to have an institutionalist and behavioralist inclinations.

When choosing between Marx, Nietzsche, Freud or Jesus, Jesus wins.