These books by exorcists don’t, I am afraid, fill me with confidence that popularizing this lurid stuff is really helpful to the Faith. This stuff gets gobbled up by Spirit Daily readers, but I’m afraid it strikes me as dodgy. No, I don’t reject the reality of the demonic. I merely don’t instantly credit every story I read on the web. Again, I say, “Black cats?” Jimmy Akin asked some rather probing questions about the rather wild claims made by... Read more

These books by exorcists don’t, I am afraid, fill me with confidence that popularizing this lurid stuff is really helpful to the Faith. This stuff gets gobbled up by Spirit Daily readers, but I’m afraid it strikes me as dodgy. No, I don’t reject the reality of the demonic. I merely don’t instantly credit every story I read on the web. Again, I say, “Black cats?” Jimmy Akin asked some rather probing questions about the rather wild claims made by... Read more

There comes an hour in the afternoon when the child is tired of ‘pretending’; when he is weary of being a robber or a Red Indian. It is then that he torments the cat. There comes a time in the routine of an ordered civilisation when the man is tired at playing at mythology and pretending that a tree is a maiden or that the moon made love to a man. The effect of this staleness is the same everywhere;... Read more

There comes an hour in the afternoon when the child is tired of ‘pretending’; when he is weary of being a robber or a Red Indian. It is then that he torments the cat. There comes a time in the routine of an ordered civilisation when the man is tired at playing at mythology and pretending that a tree is a maiden or that the moon made love to a man. The effect of this staleness is the same everywhere;... Read more

Joey Odendahl, our fearless screenwriter/director/provider of Burger King fish sandwiches on Fridays during the shoot, writes us cast and crew members to say: Our composer, Eric Genuis, is putting the finishing touches on the soundtrack. The music is absolutely wonderful! Once it is complete, the sound editor will finally get the opportunity to do his thing. So it won’t be long now! Thank you for your patience… So it looks like Manalive is surging toward the home stretch and will... Read more

Joey Odendahl, our fearless screenwriter/director/provider of Burger King fish sandwiches on Fridays during the shoot, writes us cast and crew members to say: Our composer, Eric Genuis, is putting the finishing touches on the soundtrack. The music is absolutely wonderful! Once it is complete, the sound editor will finally get the opportunity to do his thing. So it won’t be long now! Thank you for your patience… So it looks like Manalive is surging toward the home stretch and will... Read more

What happens when an anthropologist tells the story of Hamlet to some African tribesmen? Read more

What happens when an anthropologist tells the story of Hamlet to some African tribesmen? Read more

…a shattering new scientific discovery that proves…. not too much. Unless you think the ability to feel pain means something about the dignity of the human person. Like arguments about “consciousness” as a criterion for personhood, I’ve never understood this sort of reasoning. I’ve spent a third of my life unconscious. Does that mean you can kill me in my sleep? “Well, you’re going to become conscious tomorrow morning!” “Yes, and a fetus is going to become conscious (or, at... Read more

…a shattering new scientific discovery that proves…. not too much. Unless you think the ability to feel pain means something about the dignity of the human person. Like arguments about “consciousness” as a criterion for personhood, I’ve never understood this sort of reasoning. I’ve spent a third of my life unconscious. Does that mean you can kill me in my sleep? “Well, you’re going to become conscious tomorrow morning!” “Yes, and a fetus is going to become conscious (or, at... Read more