Ithilien

I apologize yet again for being so slow to blog. I'm currently teaching three sections of Western Civ at a local state university, besid...

In following the stimulating discussions over at Pontifications, I've become increasingly convinced that there are two rather different ...

Those unfortunate persons who have taken the trouble to follow my posts on various Internet message boards over the past few years have noti...

S. M. Hutchens (of Touchstone magazine) recently reviewed Joseph Pearce's _C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church_ for _Books and Culture_....

This is the day when Episcopalians and Methodists celebrate a 20th-century Roman Catholic feast by singing a hymn (All Hail the Power of Jes...

There's a discussion going on over at Pontifications regarding the relative merits of Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The good Fr. Kimel, hos...

since I last posted. I've been very busy with a number of projects: an article for _Christian History_ on Wibrandis Rosenblatt (wife of ...

The other night I watched an episode of the show _Seventh Heaven_, which I hadn't done for a couple of years. When my wife and I started...

The seven sorrows of Mary, traditionally, are the following: the prophecy of Simeon (a sword will pierce your soul); the flight into Egy...

Today is the day after the Feast of the Holy Cross, and in the Catholic tradition this is, fittingly, the commemoration of the Sorrows of Ma...

I didn't manage to get a post in yesterday, but it was the Feast of the Holy Cross. This is one of those feasts that commemorates an imp...

After years of hanging out on message boards and engaging in endless (and usually fruitless) religious discussions there, and a couple years...