http://www.hulu.com/embed/opPxun3fXMVhDO8Sx_uogg Oh yeah, and about that whole “I’m either a fraud or I’m sincere” thing, those are *sincere* fake tears: To everybody who writes me to say, “But he teaches me to think critically!”. The man’s an adult convert to Mormonism. That should tell you everything you need to know about his critical thinking skills. Read more

In which we continue our look at the Our Father. Read more

In which we continue our discussion of Confirmation. Read more

Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, It is with pleasure that we invite you to the first lecture of the season, coming up this Thursday, October 15, at 7:30 pm in Room 201 Beegle Hall, on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. The evening’s speaker is Dr. Alberto Ferreiro, professor of history at SPU: The Spanish Inquisition: Myths and FactsDr. Alberto FerreiroDepartment of History, Seattle Pacific University Perhaps no other event in Spanish History has so haunted,... Read more

I am in a graduate level class on Western Classics (Homer, Socrates, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare). As is the tendency in lots of institutions of higher education, there’s a strong bent of liberalism and, in some cases, hostility toward Catholicism. Some of the additional sources we’ve been given are – how shall we say it? – biased toward certain points of view. If you, dear readers, know of any good sources of criticism on medieval religion – especially with regards to... Read more

This is cool! A reader writes: I just learned about this tonight. Can you ask your minions to pray that he is indeed canonized — ideally during the 100th anniversary of scouting BSA Jamboree next year? Lord, hear our prayer! Read more

from one of the 40 Days for Life Prayer Volunteers in Everett, WA: It was a busy day. Many people were arriving for the clinic’s opening at 11:00. I thought Monday’s were slow and that no abortions were done but I could see from the number of cars and the faces of the people arriving that was not the case. It was a lot of single girls and some couples. One couple, probably in their late 20s or 30s came... Read more

A reader writes: I was in Savannah this past weekend staying in a B & B called Galloway House, and much to my delight saw your face on a framed poster for Manalive hanging in the hallway! Maybe you or some of the crew involved with making the movie stayed there, but it was a neat thing to see. None of the group I was with could really understand why I was so excited to see a poster! I am... Read more

proves once again that you don’t get either freedom or anarchy thereby. You get the small laws. Read more

It turns out that everybody in the world who has ever read Genesis is wrong and that some scholar has discovered for the first time what it really means: God did not create the universe. Whew! I’m sure glad we have scholars around to figure things like this out. What does the entire Judeo-Christian tradition know anyway? Read more