There’s something about being out of power that seems to make political types in our country just go barking mad. We saw it with the 9/11 truthers and now we’re seeing it with the wingnuts who, when they aren’t obsessing over Obama’s birth certificate are raving about concentration camps and guillotines being set up all over America. Make not mistake, I think it quite possible that our nation is capable of going insane. We are not immune from the Fall... Read more

between reportage and editorial advocacy. Read more

between reportage and editorial advocacy. Read more

…when they really do act like Nazis? This what the Right now stands for in the country. Not, of course, that the Left is any better. That’s been my point all along: our ruling classes keep stampeding us around, warning darkly that Those Guys Over There are Oligarchs who treat the human person as an object, when the fact is that virtually all our ruling classes (and our Manufacturers of Culture in the media) are quite united in viewing the... Read more

…when they really do act like Nazis? This what the Right now stands for in the country. Not, of course, that the Left is any better. That’s been my point all along: our ruling classes keep stampeding us around, warning darkly that Those Guys Over There are Oligarchs who treat the human person as an object, when the fact is that virtually all our ruling classes (and our Manufacturers of Culture in the media) are quite united in viewing the... Read more

My pal, Bao Tran, who is a fellow Blessed Sacrament guy and a local filmmaker, gets profiled in the Seattle press. Way to go, dude! Show us the jazz hands! Read more

My pal, Bao Tran, who is a fellow Blessed Sacrament guy and a local filmmaker, gets profiled in the Seattle press. Way to go, dude! Show us the jazz hands! Read more

A reader writes: A friend of a family member is encouraging people to make Holy Hours for our President–and then to send him a small postcard letting him know we’re praying for him. Thought I’d let you know in case you were interested in posting this note and the postcards on your blog. — XXX shares her idea and template for offering Holy Hours for our President. It is a postcard telling our President of our prayers for him made... Read more

A reader writes: A friend of a family member is encouraging people to make Holy Hours for our President–and then to send him a small postcard letting him know we’re praying for him. Thought I’d let you know in case you were interested in posting this note and the postcards on your blog. — XXX shares her idea and template for offering Holy Hours for our President. It is a postcard telling our President of our prayers for him made... Read more

Duelling with Darwin: An Evening with G.K. Chesterton November 17, 2009Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington Join actor John Chalberg as he recreates a delightful evening with famed British writer G.K. Chesterton as Chesterton offers his witty and incisive thoughts about Darwin and Darwinism just in time for the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. This FREE event will take place at 7:30 pm at Demaray Hall 150 on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. We haven’t yet... Read more