So next week is going to be crazy busy.  On Sunday, I blast off for Cincinnatti, home of WKRP and Loni Anderson, resplendent in blondness.  I’ll be there for a few days, recording the audiobook version of The Work of Mercy (the book form of which you can conveniently pre-order here and get a signed copy as soon as it comes out out in January!).  When I get more information on the audiobook prices from the publisher, I’ll let you... Read more

Mark Driscoll, local Seattle cult of personality leader among the Obnoxious Christian set, is good at saying “confrontational” stuff that is dumb as a stump.  Fresh from denouncing Avatar as the most evillest satanic film ever and declaring that he couldn’t worship a Jesus he could beat up (a sentiment shared with the guards who oversaw the scourging at the pillar),  he now unburdens himself of his need to tell Those People Over There that God hates them: Some of you, God hates you.... Read more

Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, The Seattle Chesterton Society proudly announces the upcoming first event of this season, Thursday, October 20, at 7:30 PM at the UW Newman Center — an evening of discussion concerning “The Problem (or Problems?) of Faith and Science”, led by our guest speaker for the evening, Rev. Raphael Mary Salzillo, O.P. Please see below for full details concerning this first event of the season.  Please see also our full Events Calendar for more details pertaining to... Read more

Richard Aleman talks about his remarkable experiences at an Occupy Wall Street gathering that was ripe for the Chestertonian common sense of distributism. Particularly fascinating was the rabbi who urged Aleman, “What you are doing is important. This is what we need. Keep doing what you are doing and continue to preach the Beatitudes of Jesus!” Also interesting was Aleman’s description of a crowd that was very far from the trendy nutbars who tend to dominate media coverage. Hey! Why... Read more

In which we discover that modernist exegetes are not nearly as funny as retooled Michelle Bachmann joke videos. Read more

He has very thoughtfully brought together on one page a collection of his great rants regarding the brainless parents and disgusting merchants who conspire each year to turn Halloween into National Tart Up Your Daughter Day. The Man says it all. Read more

Want an ultrasound? There’s an app for that! Pro-aborts are assiduous about trying to keep women from seeing just what is being killed. They love ignorance and darkness and technology is making is harder and harder to keep the unborn babe out of sight and out of mind. Also, have you noticed how pro-aborts suddenly become the ones who go all mystical on you with the dumb arguments about when precisely, exactly, a fetus becomes “ensouled”? Just by way of... Read more

Fr. Pavone doesn’t bother to show. This kind of petulance makes the bishop look smarter every day. This is your bishop we are talking about, Fr. Pavone. Show some respect. Ed Peters remarks on this latest show of hostility to the bishop from Fr. Pavone. Read more

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Make the hurting stop. Wait! I have an idea. If Evangelicals think the day is profane, how about you, oh, I don’t know, hallow it? As in “hallowed be thy name”? “Jesus-ween.” I think we have set a new benchmark for human lameness. Read more