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April 2018

April 18, 2018

We Will Survive a Day Without Starbucks

I'm not one to criticize people for buying coffee at a coffee shop. I don't...

April 17, 2018

A Clarification of my Recent Remarks, and Why I “Censor” Ethnonationalists

Lately, some very interesting folks have reached out to me with concerns. I would like...

April 10, 2018

White Nationalism Is Not Just Another Opinion

There's been a bit of a kerfuffle. Kristen Hatten, the ethnonationalist writer who publicly...

April 05, 2018

You Can’t Be Both Pro-Life and Alt Right

As far as I can tell, this all started when my friend Destiny Hernon De...

March 2018

March 28, 2018

Night in Gethsemane

Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching...

March 25, 2018

Yes, We Do Know Better Than The Founding Fathers

The other day, on the facebook page, I got jumped on by a commentator who...

March 24, 2018

The March For Our Lives IS a Pro-Life March

If you have ever loaded your child onto a bus to the annual March...

March 22, 2018

I Don’t Care Why White Men Are Angry

I'm likely going to get a lot of flack for writing this, but it...

February 2018

February 09, 2018

Immigrants are Struggling. Here’s How You Can Help

(My friend, who is married to an immigrant, sent this to me as a...

February 04, 2018

Ram Trucks’ Shameful Attempt to Appropriate Martin Luther King

I just heard the voice of the famous anti-capitalist Martin Luther King, Jr, preaching on...

November 2017

November 25, 2017

The Second Sorrow of Mary: The Flight into Egypt

Imagine her terror. Things were bad enough before. She came to Bethlehem in the...

November 09, 2017

Mrs. Pezzulo and Ramona

My daughter has been on a Beverly Cleary bender, lately. Don't get me wrong, I...

November 05, 2017

There has Been Another Shooting

There has been another shooting. I could have opened a blog post with that sentence...

October 2017

October 24, 2017

An Article Which Has Nothing to Do With Father James Martin

Anthony Esolen is cross with Father James Martin. For the life of me, I can't...

October 10, 2017

Baby Boomers Invented Everything

Today, I am tired. I'm always tired; it's part and parcel of having fibromyalgia...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

How Do You Love A Country?

I have been informed, in the comment section, that since I don't love my country,...

September 22, 2017

A Word On Trump’s Racist Double Standard

With great regret, I draw to your attention TV's Donald Trump. The president of the...

September 07, 2017

Steve Bannon and Saint Lawrence Agree on 1 Thing

Steve Bannon, who claims to be a Catholic, declared himself at odds with the Church's...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

African Christians Are Not Inferior Christians

There isn't anything non-Christian about being African.

August 19, 2017

If This Is Really About Honoring the Old South…

I received a comment to the effect that taking down municipal statues of Confederate generals is...

August 14, 2017

A Statement From Christian Ethicists Without Borders On White Supremacy and Racism

The group "Christian Ethicists Without Borders" has released a statement condemning the recent terrorist attack...

August 14, 2017

A Reader Asks: Is There Such A Thing As African-American Culture?

Responding to my post last night on how there's no such thing as a...

August 14, 2017

There Is No Such Thing As White European Culture

Perhaps, by now, you have heard the sad, sad story Peter Cvjetanovic, who was photographed carrying a tiki...

August 13, 2017

An Eyewitness Account of the Charlottesville Attack

A white woman paced the street, hand on her hip, shouting "Where are the police?"...

August 12, 2017

The White Supremacist Tiki Brigade: On the Stupidity of Evil

There is nothing funny about the white supremacists demonstrating in Virginia. Nothing whatsoever. Except that...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Free Among the Dead

That's all anybody can ever do: help each other suffer less, and pretend to be...

May 23, 2017

Ten More Christian Movies That Need To Be Made

I just died laughing at Babylon Bee's very humorous list of 23 Christian Movies That...

April 2017

April 11, 2017

Sean Spicer, Holocaust Denier

I never thought I'd live to see Holocaust denial in a White House press briefing....

February 2017

February 12, 2017

“I Never Thought I’d Have To Warn My Kids…”

My friend Nina just posted this on Facebook: Things I never thought I'd have to...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” is Not Just A Refugee Ban, And It’s Not For Safety

Yesterday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the same day Vice-President Pence told the March for Life...