August 13, 2014
If we don’t offer people something nobler than sex to apply themselves to, then the flames of lust will continue to spread faster than we can possibly put them out.
December 9, 2013
In emphasizing the excellence and even the preeminence of human sexual nature, we must never forget that man, though rational, is still an animal.
September 18, 2013
“The real problem, then, is not that only one side is playing by the rules of the game, but that capitalists and anti-capitalists can’t even agree about what game is being played here.”
August 5, 2013
Inspired by the show’s modest lessons, I have written up a glowing recommendation of Pippin over at Front Porch Republic, a site not usually known for its Broadway endorsements. But as I said, Pippin is not your typical Broadway show.
June 7, 2013
We live in a land of WWJD bracelets, Jesus-is-my-homeboy t-shirts, Jesus-is-my-boyfriend music, and “Tebowing.” We traverse a “Christian” landscape as garish as a Thomas Kinkade painting, strolling to the beat of that sickly sweet poem about footprints. God is not praised by Cheese.
March 13, 2013
At the end of the day, there are only two possibilities regarding the Church: Either she is who she claims to be, or not. Either she is the divinely inspired Body of Christ; or else, she is a fraud.
February 25, 2013
The end of awards seasons signals the end of my Les Mis obsession, at least for a while. But before that, a few reasons why the film instructs us in an Aristotelian-Thomistic reverence for law, and attitude that we would do well to rediscover.
February 12, 2013
Beyond the Barricade represents one attempt to sidestep the fervent but uncritical partisan wars of our culture, offering rational reflections on the good life in their stead.
