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A reader writes: Wondering if you might offer up a Prayer Request to the troops on mine and my family’s behalf: I just got laid off from my day job. I had just gotten it three month’s prior after a long and protracted financial struggle. I just interviewed for a really good job; the opportunity came my way miraculously, and it seems like it would be a good fit. Please pray that, if it be The Father’s Will, that I... Read more

A reader writes: Wondering if you might offer up a Prayer Request to the troops on mine and my family’s behalf: I just got laid off from my day job. I had just gotten it three month’s prior after a long and protracted financial struggle. I just interviewed for a really good job; the opportunity came my way miraculously, and it seems like it would be a good fit. Please pray that, if it be The Father’s Will, that I... Read more

Here is where the Incarnation of the Son of God occurred: But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days. 3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people... Read more

Rod Dreher tips me off to this piece by Annalee Newitz about the tedious liberal power fantasy that energizes stories like Avatar: These are movies about white guilt. Our main white characters realize that they are complicit in a system which is destroying aliens, AKA people of color – their cultures, their habitats, and their populations. The whites realize this when they begin to assimilate into the “alien” cultures and see things from a new perspective. To purge their overwhelming... Read more

Rod Dreher tips me off to this piece by Annalee Newitz about the tedious liberal power fantasy that energizes stories like Avatar: These are movies about white guilt. Our main white characters realize that they are complicit in a system which is destroying aliens, AKA people of color – their cultures, their habitats, and their populations. The whites realize this when they begin to assimilate into the “alien” cultures and see things from a new perspective. To purge their overwhelming... Read more

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These uber cool sci fi mugs naturally make me think of John C. Wright’s outstanding essay on fiction ocassioned by Ross Douthat’s outstanding rumination on Avatar. My own rumination: Douthat is simply right when he says: Traditional theism has to wrestle with the problem of evil: if God is good, why does he allow suffering and death? But Nature is suffering and death. Its harmonies require violence. Its “circle of life” is really a cycle of mortality. And the human... Read more