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June 2025

June 12, 2025

Does Everything Have Consciousness?

Secularist materialism is starting to fade. This is evident in the vogue of panpsychism, the...

May 2025

May 20, 2025

The Whirlwind

I grew up in Oklahoma, the tornado capital of the world, so I had seen...

May 16, 2025

Weird Science & the New Social Imaginary

Some scientists claim to have found evidence for the two wildest theories being proposed to...

April 2025

April 21, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 4/21/25

The Pope has died. Illinois Bill Would Restrict Homeschooling. And Poland's Per Capita Economy to Surpass...

April 09, 2025

The War Against the Body

Underlying many of our moral and cultural issues today is a war against the body,...

March 2025

March 03, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 3/3/25

Measuring negative time. Court rules that zoos are not prisons. And the secret to a...

January 2025

January 13, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 1/13/25

The Great Los Angeles Fire. Why UK officials ignore the groomer gangs. And almost no...

December 2024

December 24, 2024

Why Christmas Is at the Beginning of Winter

There is good reason why we celebrate Christmas when we do, near the Winter Solstice,...

December 12, 2024

Light of Light

An Advent custom is contemplating Christ as the light of the world. We know much...

November 2024

November 21, 2024

Evolution with Purpose

Oxford biophysicist Denis Noble is not a creationist nor an advocate of Intelligent Design. But...

November 11, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 11/11/24

Where Californians draw the line; the 4B movement; and the death of P'nut.

October 2024

October 30, 2024

What Has Happened to Halloween?

Halloween used to be a time when children would dress up in costumes and trick...

October 29, 2024

The New Theists

Ross Douthat, writing for the New York Times, thinks religion may be on the verge...

October 25, 2024

Must Reads, 10/25/24

Beginning an occasional feature highlighting articles and posts worth reading: The third wave of dog...

October 18, 2024

Friday Miscellany, 10/18/24

Young men are now more religious than young women. Portlandia is replacing its entire government. ...

September 2024

September 24, 2024

The Poet of Joy

Thomas Traherne is the great poet of joy. Or, to use his term, "felicity." We...

August 2024

August 05, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 8/5/24

A trial for the 9/11 terrorists. Abortion makes men "more free." And good news on...

June 2024

June 12, 2024

Degrowth Communism

According to Kohei Saito, capitalism creates economic growth, which puts ever-more carbon into the atmosphere. ...

May 2024

May 22, 2024

Christian Atheism

Yesterday we posted about people who do not believe in God but are not atheists. ...

April 2024

April 08, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/8/24

Cosmic coincidences and the total eclipse; adult baptisms soaring in France; and more evidence that...

March 2024

March 22, 2024

The New Critiques of Religious Freedom

When we hear of attacks on religious freedom, we usually think of government restrictions or...

March 20, 2024

Humans = Machines

Humanism has given way to "posthumanism," the blending of humans and machines. Robert Lazu Kmita...

March 15, 2024

DISCUSSION: Daylight Savings Time

Last Sunday we switched to Daylight Savings Time, bringing back the great debate about whether...

March 12, 2024

Shock at the Belief that Rights Come from God

A journalist was shocked to find that "Christian nationalists" believe that rights come from God...

February 2024

February 26, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 2/26/24

Censoring both "old climate denial" and "new climate denial"; saving university education; and we're just...

February 19, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 2/19/24

Tooth Fairy inflation, saving the climate by polluting the earth, and Iran claims Antarctica.

January 2024

January 24, 2024

The Coming Plague of Locusts

In late April, TWO major broods of cicadas--also known as locusts--will emerge from their multi-year...

December 2023

December 28, 2023

C. S. Lewis’s “Christmas Sermon for Pagans”

In a recently-discovered uncollected essay from 1946, C. S. Lewis explores the difference between pagans,...

December 20, 2023

End Times Secularist Style

Christmas has its secularist version. Apparently, Advent, a time for reflecting on the End Times,...

December 15, 2023

Santa Claus and Grace

For both the journalist Kennedy Hall and author G. K. Chesterton, the figure of Santa...