My little sister is in the midst of breast cancer treatment – halfway through radiation, after a radical double mastectomy, left arm lymphadectomy, and a couple months of chemo. She is halfway through the final treatment of this marathon of horrors. The past week or so she has been struggling with swelling and pain with the radiation (she has to hold her arms above her head for 10 minutes, every day). Yesterday they did an ultrasound to rule out blood... Read more

A reader asks prayer for her sister, who has just discovered she is pregnant. She’s young, in college, and unmarried and there is fear that the family will not take the news well. Father, hear our prayer for this woman and her child as well as for all those involved, that love and compassion would rule in this situation and that your will for the blessing and spiritual prosperity of all would be done through Jesus Christ. Mother Mary, pray... Read more

Warning: Don’t watch this if you dislike gore.  Do watch this if you like nerd humor. Read more

A reader writes: In a recent post about the state of our political system, you wrote “And when I vote third party, I shall, yet again, be told that I’m being “unrealistic” or (even better) un-American.” About 2 years ago I wrote to you regarding my confusion on your position. I didn’t understand how you could defend voting for a candidate that had no hope of winning, when (to my mind), the clearest way to oppose the moral evil that... Read more

In which we scratch our heads and mull the curious fact that the only parable Jesus ever told in which a character is named is a parable all about “rising from the dead” and that this lines up remarkably with the fact that Jesus raised a man named Lazarus from the dead. Read more

Church boycott in Ireland (this one’s about women’s ordination) is a big fat flop. Read more

The ridiculous arrest and trial of four Christian evangelists who were busted by some over-zealous PC police for the “crime” of preaching the gospel at a Dearborn Arab festival has been decisively slapped down in court. This is America, dammit. Read more

Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, The Seattle Chesterton Society proudly announces the upcoming first event of this season, an evening of discussion concerning Liberal Education and the glories and perils of intellectual culture, led by Professor David Whalen of Hillsdale College, and under the guidance of the thought of (now Blessed) John Henry Newman. Please see below for full details concerning this first event of the season. Please see also our full Events Calendar for more... Read more

No matter how old and feeble we get. The time we spent acting like silly old fools, and got in the movies, resembling two ghouls. You have to get misty when aging zombies reminisce about the Golden Years. Read more

Obama, who has already made sure to grant himself the power to murder (with out evidence, arrest, trial or legal conviction) anybody, citizen or no, whom he deems to be a national security threat, now seeks more power still to intrude into your life–to keep you safe, of course. Always to keep you safe. Read more