Faith and Fiction: The Story Behind the Story (of a Story)
Sean Murphyi. True story: my sister, during her junior or senior year at Boston University, called to talk about what I didn't yet realize was a classic college cliché, disguised as…
Donald Trump: The Man in America’s Mirror
i. Orwell, Again (Obviously) Even before the Reality TV circus American politics and, by extension, American life, degenerated into late last year, George Orwell was the go-to guy for…
The Narrow Path: A Tone Poem for Christmas
You are alone. You are back in the city and you are alone as you emerge into the open and empty space, stepping out from the stale depths of the…
Sinners and Saints (File Under: The Catholic Church is (Still) Decadent and Depraved)
So here is the best thing I've seen this week relating to the Pope slinking away into post-Prada obscurity. Selena Coppock Pope Benedict is stepping down from his official duties,…
The Catholic Church is Decadent and Depraved: Papal Edition
So here is the best thing I've seen this week relating to the Pope slinking away into post-Prada obscurity. Selena Coppock Pope Benedict is stepping down from his official duties,…
The Catholic Church is (still) Decadent and Depraved
Follow the money. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. These are the two oft-invoked quotes I kept thinking to myself as I read Sabrina Rubin Erdley's piece, "The…
The Catholic Church is Decadent and Depraved
Part One: Abandon hope all ye who enter here... First, and appropriately, a confession. The title is both a tribute to, and an outright plagiarism of Hunter S. Thompson's masterful…
Beyond Good and Evil or, The God that Failed
Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, has passed away. Obit from Washington Post here. His story, self-made millionaire who gives away his money to the needy and actually…