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November 2019

November 18, 2019

Oh. Galveston.

Galveston is, roughly, twice as large as Manhattan. It is also entirely a gazillion times less...

November 17, 2019

Mandalorian (A Review and Appreciation) and the end of cord cutting?

A Mild Fan: Life With Star Wars as Excellent Entertainment Star Wars changed movies for me:...

November 16, 2019

Light Phone: You can buy an excellent phone with no camera, no Internet.

Every kid should get a dumb phone. Why? Having the ability to call home, text...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

Miss Davis or Having a Big Impact Merely By Being Nice and Kind

This Halloween I began to think of Miss Davis our neighbor and miss her mightily....

October 28, 2019

In Mild Praise of Professional Sports Fandom (A Summation)

Just this Weekend: Fandom is Fun Just this weekend my adult children (including a son-in-law),...

October 11, 2019

Homemade Halloween: The Costume We Made, the Custom We Shared

Halloween, whatever it was or has become, was delightful when I was a boy. We dressed...

September 2019

September 05, 2019

A Saint for Our Leader? (The Problem of Winning and Shakespeare’s Henry VI)

I have been told Americans elect a president and not a pastor. This is true:...

August 2019

August 29, 2019

Listening to the Story: Taking Time for The Bards, Becoming a Bard

“Tell us a story.” We asked Dad for a story often and he was ready....

July 2019

July 21, 2019

Knowing and not Knowing: An Idea Might Not Have Those Consequences

Sometimes ideas have consequences: good and bad. Often people who hate an idea will pretend...

July 20, 2019

The Problem Is Easy, the Virtue of Moderation is Hard

Whatever your point of view, Christian or atheist, Republican or Democrat, pointing to “the problem”...

July 06, 2019

“Backwards” Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Myth Exploded

A middlebrow social media site, often witty, described pre-Revolutionary Russia as “backwards.” This was twitty...

July 04, 2019

The Glorious Fourth (Paraphrasing Lincoln in Divided Times)

At this eighth Fourth of July since joining Patheos, there is less occasion for an...

July 01, 2019

Berkeley is Beautiful

I spent several Glorious Fourths in Berkeley, California. Perhaps, the most old fashioned rousingly patriotic...

June 2019

June 13, 2019

The Five Worst Arguments (or Claims) Made By Internet Theists

Some arguments are so bad, nobody should make them. In fact, making them slaps a...

June 12, 2019

The Five Worst “Arguments” (or Claims) Made by Internet Atheists

Atheists or at least non-theists have been invaluable mentors and friends. Philosophy and many other...

June 07, 2019

The Lonesome Gods (A Problem of the 1950’s Generation AND Louis L’Amour)

If an American Christian thinks the 1950’s were Paradise, he knows nothing about the African-American...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Earthworm Jim and Great Comics (Guest Voice: Doug TenNapel)

A Brief Introduction Comics counted when I was a kid. If you are my age...

May 24, 2019

Upstart Crow (A Review of Sorts)

Upstart Crow made me laugh so much I began to wonder: how could any show be...

May 04, 2019

Too Late! Even Gordon Ramsay Cannot Save Us If We Wait Too Long . . .

A Powerful Image of a Complicated Historical Disaster An image that stuck in my mad...

April 2019

April 08, 2019

The Enchanted Cottage, a motion picture, Dante, Purgatory, a moving poem, and Me

There is film to watch, a poem to ponder, and a lesson to be learned....

March 2019

March 18, 2019

Video Games as Scientism’s Totem (Guest Post by Dr. Eric Holloway)

In the movie Inception, the characters are able to enter into the dreams of other...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)

Any married American will find much of the book familiar, moving. This is an author...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

The Bioshock Trilogy: Five Reasons It is Better than Many Movies and Books

The Bioshock series of games are better entertainment than most movies and more thoughtful than...

January 28, 2019

Doctor Disappointment Is In: the New Doctor Who

This guest post is by Ms. Emma Meine of The College at The Saint Constantine...

December 2018

December 13, 2018

The Purity Culture of Christmas: Commercialism is Bad. So?

Let’s kill the Purity Culture of Christmas. Our family fought Christian Gnosticism (“purity culture”) as best...

December 09, 2018

Designated Survivor (the Equivalent of a Christian Movie for the Resistance)

Great entertainment will often contain a message, but it takes great entertainment to do the job...

December 04, 2018

Fantastic Beasts: Rowling Vindicates (Some of) Her Critics

JK Rowling (JKR) did sub-creation splendidly in the Harry Potter series. She had seven books, with...

November 2018

November 25, 2018

Number 1: Thank U Next (An Old Guy Reads the Lyrics and Wonders as He Writes a Review)

I try to listen and think about the number 1 song of the moment: Ariana...

November 18, 2018

“Have Thanksgiving,” he said. And I was crabby.

“Be thankful,” the radio preacher said. My immediate reaction, God help me, was crabbiness. “I...

November 04, 2018

“We Cannot Go Back” says the Person Reviving Whiggery: The Self-Referential Incoherence of the Young Evangelical Whigs

“We cannot go back! Do not be so nostalgic!” So says a certain kind of...