A reader writes: My family just got an email from the old homestead in GA that one of our dear friend’s parents were killed in a car wreck yesterday. This poor family has gone through complete hell over the past ten years and just when one thinks things get better, something like this happens. We feel so helpless since we’re not there. I ask that we lift this family up in prayers, please. May the souls of these people find... Read more

I’m answering a couple of questions from an Evangelical pondering a Tiber swim and dealing with many of the misgivings and family tensions this creates. Read more

Denver Museum of Science “Dino” from Smoke & Mirrors on Vimeo. Read more

…and I’ll show you a culture that despises childhood. Read more

This was written by Oliver Jensen and appeared in the New Republic in June 1957: I haven’t checked these figures but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country, I believe it covered certain Eastern areas, with this idea they were following up based on a sort of national independence arrangement and the program that every individual is just as good as every other individual. Well, now, of course,... Read more

…with Peter Kreeft’s work, but I think he’d enjoy it if he isn’t. John writes here and here about Bruce Charlton’s suggestion that we need more pagan missionaries. His point is that modern paganism is a rather pathetic affair, basically concocted from nothing by dilletantes who are trying to avoid Christianity by cobbling together junk they imagine is pagan, giving it a Lord of the Rings dressing, and dropping a few Thous and Thees in to make it smell old.... Read more

…so I thought I’d post another fine song by Pomplamoose, who also have been enabled by the Internet to express genius in ways impossible for small indie musicians just a few years ago. Read more

A reader writes: I am asking you and your army of prayer warriors to please keep my (now former) boss in your prayers; they just let him go today, right before the holidays. He is a very good man and I think he’s getting one hell of a raw deal. He was the one who hired me, and he provided me a lot of help and support when I needed it, so I will really miss him – but our... Read more

BIDEN TRANSPARENCY MEETING CLOSED TO PRESS Beyond parody. Read more

In case you’d care to post an update, my daughter-in-law’s blood levels are back to normal although she’ll be on medication for a while yet. She thanks everyone for their prayers. Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ! Read more