Extra Thoughts

My first post by this title is here . It was sparked, in part, by a vile article at Radix Journal deploring the pro-life movement for being...

(This post should have gone up yesterday, but I thought of it only late last night.) Imagine the Virgin Mary, sitting in her home in Nazar...

In the aftermath of the M.Y. flap, to which I alluded in the last post, I am moved to ask a question: Are conservatives still opposed to h...

Now that the flap (you can probably guess what it was) that gave rise to this post is not the latest, hottest stuff in the news anymore, I f...

Yesterday at a lunch with a well-known apologist, the "bioi thesis" about the Gospels came up, as did the fact that the famously b...

For a long time I've wanted a catchy, one-sentence answer to, "What is an undesigned coincidence?" Necessarily, a one-sentenc...

I've recently been enjoying again the poems of Lizette Woodworth Reese. The poems below include some that I haven't shared in my ear...

Now that Donald Trump is President, it's inevitable that we never-Trumpers (among which I am proud to identify myself) will be jeeringly...

I've often thought that there is a bit of a puzzle in Jesus' promise of rest to those who come to him: Come unto me, all ye that ...

I actually don't think vegetarianism is important. In fact, I think so-called factory farming is more important for human well-being tha...

I just learned of this gospel music standard. I love it. It's a new fave. So much so that I'm going to embed about four or five vers...

A blessed feast of St. John the Evangelist to any readers I happen to have. That's today, which happens to be the third day of Christmas...

I'm very excited to announce that Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts is available for pre-order from ...