Extra Thoughts

Did Never Trumpers say something about the corruption of conservatism ? Why yes, yes we did. Notice the pattern--the ugly, bullying attitu...

He had never thought of the Olympian figures of the Close as in need of compassion;...All of them, and especially the...Dean, had seemed to...

I spent a probably inordinate amount of time some years ago arguing over whether, somehow, intelligent design theory is incompatible with Th...

Well, well. What are the odds that those praising everything Trump does that could be remotely regarded as conservative will even mention t...

It is now the Easter season, a glorious one, and in my part of the world the weather is cooperating for once. Astonishing to see new green l...

Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face; here would I touch and handle things unseen; here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, and all m...

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 ...