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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 and…

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…

Seventy years ago Franklin Roosevelt offered his vision of the Four Freedoms, including the Freedom from Fear. Roosevelt addressed what was then a largely Christian nation.
These days, our rapidly de-Christianizing nation is discovering that a Culture of Death is…