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February 2016

February 17, 2016

Is Gardening Essential for Your Salvation?

I think the biggest benefit of gardening is it grounds you. I really mean that....

February 15, 2016

Organic Before It was Cool

Well, it's February 15th and it was -8 degrees fahrenheit when I got out of...

February 12, 2016

Household Political Economy–what we should be working for

So what in the world is this thing? Let's begin with what it isn't. It...

February 08, 2016

Advice for a Nice Christian Young Man

If you haven't noticed by now, being nice doesn't get you very far. Perhaps the...

February 05, 2016

Living in a Metaphor

I recall a conversation with a young author years ago. We were having lunch in...

February 03, 2016

How to Short the Welfare State: Invest in Home Economics

When you think about the economy you probably only include your household as an afterthought....

January 2016

January 29, 2016

The Purloined Boy: Plato Pottering Around

Guest review by David Deavel--the Associate Editor of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and...

January 27, 2016

Stirred by Shakers: the Elegant Errors of a Failed Sect

When it comes to the opinion of the people who matter, the Shakers are hip....

January 21, 2016

Why Evangelical Gender-Egalitarians are Statists

An ethic is the inner structure of a polity. Sacramental Theology and Covenant Theology are...

January 20, 2016

Are Humans Obsolete?

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." Orange Catholic...

January 18, 2016

Life After the Welfare State

"This too shall pass." The Sufi poets A few years back Francis Fukuyama published a book...

January 15, 2016

Nominalism and the Law of Unintended Consequences

I like antibiotics and air-conditioning, and I'd like to keep them. Many knowledgable people agree...

January 14, 2016

Upcoming Film Review: The Finest Hours–to be posted on 1/22

I've been invited to screen another film, Disney's, The Finest Hours. Here's the trailer-- I'll...

January 13, 2016

Is Evangelicalism a Secularizing Force?

I've thought long and hard about secularism and as I've done so I've come to...

January 08, 2016

The Revenant Reviewed

"O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself!" Psalm 94:1 I know a man who...

January 07, 2016

Splash page for a new comic of mine…

A splash page introduces a story. Here's a the pencil for the splash...yet to be...

January 06, 2016

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Part 4 (and last, at last)

Does Robert Crumb hate you? I've used the word hate pretty liberally throughout my review....

January 04, 2016

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Part 3

I just ordered R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country . The reason I did...

January 01, 2016

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Part 2

Three or four years back I queried Books and Culture about writing a review of...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis, Part 1

I begin with a confession: I am not a fan of Robert Crumb. But from...

December 29, 2015

Tribute to Howard Finster & Forthcoming Review of R. Crumb’s, The Book of Genesis

I just finished a tribute to Reverend Howard Finster this morning and thought I'd share...

December 28, 2015

No More Portable Jesus.

It can take years of study for a fish to see water. It did for...

December 26, 2015

How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization

We can hope that Western civilization is in the early stages of awakening from a...

December 23, 2015

Atheists Don’t Have No Songs

If someone told me a story about an old industrial town that defended its beautiful...

December 16, 2015

Saving Nature from the Hippies

So I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I like granola. But why should...

December 14, 2015

Are Protestants Human? (And what that has to do with my pulpit.)

Animals, I assume, are literalists. Metaphors, analogies: animals just don't get them. I tried a...

December 11, 2015

The Sky Hook and the Virgin Birth

If you're the sort of person who believes that the universe is hermetically sealed, with...

December 09, 2015

The Bombadil Option

“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots...

December 02, 2015

C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, and the Problem of Alien Worlds

Recently some astronomers discovered two earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20, a star roughly 1,000 light years...