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May 2020

May 25, 2020

Memorial Day

For the past 30 years, every Memorial Day has found the Shea family here at...

May 23, 2020

Your Entertainment for a Saturday

The Bobs sing "Spontaneous Human Combustion"!:

May 22, 2020

Building Bridges of Trust vs. Winning

A little while back I remarked on the fact that, despite the constant complaint of...

May 21, 2020

Colbert and Tolkien vs. Trump

One of the reasons the gospel spread like wildfire among the poor of the Roman...

May 20, 2020

First Things: Against the Living Consensus

Long ago, when First Things was a magazine to be taken seriously, it espoused ideas...

May 19, 2020

Fearing the Wrong Things

The fear of the Lord, say the biblical sages, is the beginning of wisdom. Lots...

May 18, 2020

If you are a white conservative Christian in America…

I have terrible news for you: As much as you wish it were true, you...

May 16, 2020

If you take “Obamagate” seriously…

You are either a moron, a brazen liar, or a moron and a brazen liar....

May 15, 2020

Courage for Thee, Selfishness for Me: The Right Wing Credo

A new form of chickenhawkery has arisen with the Right Wing Cult of Death. The...

May 14, 2020

Millstones and Libertarianized “Prolife” Sleight of Hand

One of the troubles a libertarianized American faith gets into is the tendency to deal...

May 13, 2020

Empathy Resistance Training

So here is a charming screenshot: This rather characteristic display of spite from the MAGA...

May 12, 2020

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant” – Samuel Johnson

It is important that prolife people clear their minds of cant. One of the biggest...

May 09, 2020

Something to Astound You for a Saturday

You're welcome!

May 08, 2020

Deacon Steve Greydanus on the Faustian Bargain of Religious Conservatives

National Review penned one of its periodic excuses for why the Most Wrong Demographic in...

May 07, 2020

The Wondrous and Magical Precious Feet Pin

Time was when "faithful conservative" Catholics believed that the teaching of the Church was not...

May 06, 2020

Magical thinking and Trump’s Abandonment of America to Pandemic

Magical thinking is the satanic parody of the Christian doctrine of creation by the power...

May 05, 2020

CGI Reveals What Jesus Really Looked Like!!!!!!!

So this feast of clickbait silly is making the rounds again. It announces we now...

May 04, 2020

The MAGA Cult Always Confesses When It Accuses

Cast in Point: National Review baselessly accuses the NY Times and its readers of "dancing...

May 02, 2020

So this is amazing!

This musical was, I am astonished to learn, written by They Might be Giants, Aerosmith,...

May 01, 2020

“All Lives Matter”

Remember when All Lives Mattered? With the rise of cell cam technology, people kept filming...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Please help feed hungry people in Uganda

The pandemic is playing havoc with the supply chain in poor countries. My friend Fausta...

April 29, 2020

Malachi, the Pandemic, and the Unexpected Judgments of God

“Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom...

April 28, 2020

A Guide to the Perplexed

It is a commonplace among conservatives who can't bear to look in the mirror as...

April 27, 2020

More on Gnosticism and the Myth of the Untutored Genius

As the whole world saw last Thursday, the World Leader of the Cult of the...

April 25, 2020

Support my work on Patreon!

Just a reminder: I lost my main source of income due to COVID. If you...

April 25, 2020

Flannery O’Connor Reads “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Something cool for a Saturday morning:

April 24, 2020

Disproving the Lie that Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis “Very Fine People”

Ever since Donald Trump called people marching under the banner of the swastika at the...

April 23, 2020

Gnostics, QANON, COVID Liberty Protests, and the Myth of the Untutored Genius

Lots of people think the Gnostics of the second century were the Cool Christians, muzzled...

April 22, 2020

Help Support Me on Patreon!

Due to COVID, my primary income source laid me off in late March. I make...

April 22, 2020

Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?

People think I really care about socialism. So this post will undoubtedly be misread as...

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