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September 2016

September 27, 2016

3 New Things Trump Told Us in the First Debate

Last night's presidential debate was, by comparison, a moderately composed portrait of Trump. The comparison,...

September 19, 2014

MYTOP10 Novel List, As Requested by Artur Rosman

I don't know why I was called out on Facebook about this, seeing how poorly read I...

September 11, 2014

Vaccines and Ideological Delusions

Every few weeks my Facebook feed revisits another report from a nutty niche website of a...

August 2014

August 02, 2014

The August Experiment

The July Experiment went well, despite the fact that I didn't always obey my own...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Wounded or Wrangling, Broken or Bickering?

(As with anything that is mostly true, committing it to language will require overstatements and...

July 19, 2014

The Apocalypse Will Make Sense, When It Ends

Your punctually tardy weekly apocalypse in eight points: 1. Pope Francis has decided to stop...

July 15, 2014

Pewsitter: Brilliant Irony or Self-Parody?

I had never visited Pewsitter* before, and had only heard of it, in online passing,...

July 09, 2014

Benedict XVI vs. Francis: The Great Papal Football Finale

A day after the Germans blitzed their Brazilian hosts 7-1, the Argentines have outlasted the...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

A Hesitant Defense of Cliven Bundy

I've stayed away from the Bundy story until now. It seemed like the latest bit...

April 12, 2014

The End of the World Starts at the Beginning

Your never delayed, but always on time, weekly apocalypse, in eight points: 1. The latest...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

The Apocalypse Will Flood Your Mind

Your flaky, but always weekly, apocalypse, in seven points: 1. A century after Nietzsche stole...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Favorite Things and Not So Much: 2013 in Review

2013 has been my first full year with Patheos. I think I posted between ten...

December 21, 2013

The Apocalypse Returns With Feathers

Your flaky weekly apocalypse, in ten points. 1. The War on Christmas is in full...

December 20, 2013

Thoughts on Phil Robertson and Duck Dynasty

I like to watch TV, which is why I don't own one. Plus, I watch...

December 16, 2013

Fr. Z Defies Pope Francis, With Merch

Fr. Z has stooped to a new low. He is selling cheap, bland, and ugly merchandise,...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

Disposable Pleasures

When my children see a movie they like, they want to see it again. Immediately....

October 2013

October 05, 2013

The Apocalyptic Wheels Go Round and Round

Your weekly apocalypse, in nine points: 1. The US House of Representatives voted 400-1...

September 2013

September 16, 2013

6 (-2) Reasons to NOT Send Your Son to College

<Editor's note: the original post had six reasons but then two of them seemed to...

September 14, 2013

The End of the World Strikes at Dawn

The weekly apocalypse, in fourteen points: 1. World War III was almost at a...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

A Most Uneventful Apocalypse

THE APOCALYPSE, IN FIFTEEN POINTS: 1. Tim Tebow has been released from the New England Patriots...

August 15, 2013

All This Stuff About Millennials

I Googled 'millennials' and found out, through Wikipedia, that the term is a synonym for...

August 13, 2013

Shopping Amongst the Episcopate

On Saturday I met the new Bishop of the Diocese of Fargo, Bishop John Thomas Folda,...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Pope Francis endorsed MY book, too!

For some time now we've all seen how much Pope Francis reiterates the central theme...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

Airport Affectations

Over the past two months I've become an infrequent blogger. I once resisted that title....

May 2013

May 14, 2013

Sex Miseducation: Abstinence Doesn’t Make Sense UPDATED

Calah Alexander has written a powerful essay about the psychological and spiritual violence that is often...

May 06, 2013

Housekeeping, Announcements, Gratitude, Spring

Those who know me also know that I don't keep a calendar, although sometimes I...

April 2013

April 20, 2013

(Un)Fashionable Nostalgia

I grew up wearing second-hand clothes. And hating it. Shopping was always ritual in humiliation....

April 10, 2013

Off Topic, Sometimes

It's been a while since I wrote about not writing. I've been trying to break...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

An Open Letter to Salon and Molly McCluskey — UPDATED

Dear Salon Editors and Molly (if I may), I read your article, "My Steubenville," with...

March 26, 2013

A Hot Mess: Marriage, Derrida, Nabokov, and Whatnot

I don't really understand what the same sex marriage hullabaloo is about. I can understand...