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with an essay riffing on the provocative, if incomplete, work of a Trump-appointed federal judge:...

Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning directorial debut, 2017’s “Get Out,” was as much an exploration of the...

I ask the hard questions, at America: At first glance, “The Song of Bernadette” seems...

Some notes about the Catholic Church. # There's a bit in an early voiceover from...

Hello! I'm back from Revoice, it was amazing!!!, more on that in a bit. I...

  A book about the special honor accorded virgins, celibates, and others who renounced sex...

at First Things: The most reactionary thing about King Charles III, the modern Shakespeare pastiche...

This is a great piece but I guess the reason the end disappointed me is...

posts: Tymara Walker posts on youtube (thanks to all for sending links): “This is the...

Hello all. I'm very happy to announce that an anthology I'm editing, with the working...

excellent metaphor and accurate insight at the heart of this piece from a scholar of...

for AmCon: I’ve finally heard “Hamilton,” the Broadway hip-hop musical about the first Secretary of...

A few years back I started noticing how many bleak, cheerless, or just unexpected films...

or, my review of Winners and Losers: “Winners and Losers,” created by Marcus Youssef and...

Hey y'all. This is all in the very, very first stages, but I'm talking with...

and being gay and Christian: ...Julie and I both know that Christian churches and communities...

Earlier this week Julie Rodgers posted a characteristically forthright and gentle explanation of her shift...

There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me. Finally I...

at Surprising Faith: Alicia: What do you think it means to be Catholic? Your Catholicism...

Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up...

A second small post in my intermittent series about things people have asked me in...

So I took part in this year-end books roundup with AmCon, and once again told...

at AmCon: The most tense scene I saw in any movie this year was Marion...

writes: Last week The Atlantic published the article “Why I Hope to Die by 75” by Ezekiel...

Yesterday I went to the launch of AltFem, a new magazine from the people who...

I had to cut a lot from the book, and this chapter was eccentric and...

on a terrific new film. And given my readership, I'll note that Hedwig is one...

blogs: ...The most astonishing revelation about the Christian God, as opposed to the other Gods, is...

Why should Christians act morally? Because if they do they will go to Heaven and...

Fantasist (and mackerel-snapper, if we're counting) Tim Powers does high-concept tales in which hard-bitten characters...