Monday, December 31, 2018

It's a Wonderful Life: defending eucatastrophe

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(Image attribution: still from It's A Wonderful Life, National Telefilm Associates, public domain) It's a Wonderful Life has ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Reformation day revisited, from the other side of the Tiber

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Three years ago, I wrote this rather polemical piece attacking the celebration of "Reformation Day" by Protestants. I sti...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Honest apostasy vs. faithful dissent

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Every so often one hears conservative Catholics (or conservative Christians generally) say that people whom they consider insufficiently...
Sunday, October 07, 2018

An alternate history scenario for supporters of Brett Kavanaugh

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Consider the following tale from another timeline: It was sometime during the presidency of Barack Obama. There was a Supreme Court vacan...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

The American Solidarity Party: still very much alive

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The political party to which I belong, the American Solidarity Party, has been going through a lot of internal conflict in the past year. ...
Monday, March 26, 2018

The much-heralded death of European Christianity

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The Daily Mail announces breathlessly that "Christianity in Europe is dying out." This is just the latest in a long series of s...

The Last Jedi: a defense and explication (lots of spoilers)

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In this post, I'm going to lay out what I think the film The Last Jedi  is about, and why the film is, for me at least, a thorough-go...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Star Wars movie review--but not the one you expect

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I've been working on a series of blog posts on Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation , which was published five years ago and w...