Heresy Often Tends to Mutate Into Its Opposite

Radical Feminism (not all feminism) typically winds up struggling to de-feminize women. Secular liberation movements end in chains for massive portions of the population. Soviets who promised bread, peace and land wound up starving their citizens, plunging into war, and… Read More

Why Creeds?

I became a Christian with the help of a small group of believers on my college dorm floor. As is common in such circles, we believed that “the Bible alone” was sufficient to know Christ’s revelation and live as he… Read More

Called and Chosen

The Christian faith drives ideologues crazy.  And as our ideologies change, so do the things that irritate us about the Faith.  But there’s always something.  Because, in this fallen world, we do not really progress.  We wobble.  Yesterday’s crazy ideology… Read More

Grace is Dark Matter

It is customary this time of year for the Human Toothache Brigade to break out the ol’ secular humanist signs and try to dampen Christmas spirit while over-sensitive culture warriors over-react with War on Christmas!!!! hyperventilation. It’s all good fun,… Read More

In Praise of Credulity

St. Thomas Aquinas was once tricked by his fellow students who cried out, “Look! A flying ox!” Thomas dutifully went to the window to look and his peers all laughed at him heartily. Thomas’ reply (and one of the many… Read More

Through a Veil Darkly

Some time back I ran across a headline in ZENIT announcing, “Scholars Aim to Disprove Darwin”.
My thought: “Good luck with that.”
I’m highly skeptical that guys like Hugh Owen, who believe in a young earth and the co-existence of… Read More

Saved by Christ, Not by Rules

A while bac k, the Mainstream Media (MSM) got itself all in a tizzy about “the Vatican” supposedly issuing “seven new deadly sins”.  As one particularly egregious headline put it “Recycle or go to hell, warns Vatican”.
Given this view… Read More

Thanksgiving: An Odd Reconciliation

Mark Twain once remarked that when he was fifteen his father was the stupidest man alive, but by the time he turned twenty-five he was surprised at how much the guy had learned in ten years.
That pattern can be… Read More

Our Culture’s Sacred Stories

I can’t help but like Kathy Shaidle    , the scrappy author of a Canadian blog called Five Feet of Fury. I’ve always had a weakness for people who tell you exactly what they think and never bother to mince words… Read More

Israel and Judah

For some reason, I still seem to mystify people in my views on the American political scene. Indeed, the most mysterious criticisms I get are the ones illustrated in the comments here, for instance, which say (in mixed tones of… Read More

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