the seven basic elements of the universe according to the scientific world. These are Time, Space, Matter, Energy, Power, Prestige, and Funding. He wrote a hilarious piece which I reproduce below: I am an “ex” scientist. I have over 100 publications in the field of materials science and physics. Many of these publications are in peer reviewed journals such as The Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society Journal and Journal of Applied Physics. I have sat on... Read more

Is there anything the Source and Summit of all that is noble, true, good and beautiful cannot do? Read more

Real life superheroes patrolling our nation’s streets. How utterly cool. I tingle with anticipation for when John C. Wright dilates on this story. He will love it! Read more

He writes: I just wanted to let you know how my granny’s doing since you both were kind enough to ask your vast legions of readers to pray for her. She’s doing very well, progressing in her chemo treatments. Dad, Mom, Uncle Mark, Aunt Lisa and I all took her out to the golf course a few weeks ago. She rode around in the cart with Mom until it started raining. Then they went up to the club house and... Read more

For some reason, somebody felt impelled to bcc me on this: Dear Mssrs. Sungenis and Owen, I wonder if you have any thoughts about the claim that the recent devastating earthquake that occurred in Italy was a form of Divine Retribution for the Vatican sponsored conference on Evolution. This claim is put forward by Harun Yahya, a Moslem Creation scientist and writer, whose representative was evicted from the Vatican Conference in retaliation for asking an “impertinent” question to Catholic scientists... Read more

(amazing, I know). Anyway, I once had a friend who was not particularly religious, but she had a dream in which she encountered, if memory serves, a vampire. Curiously, her response was relief, because she reasoned that if such supernatural evil existed, then God must exist too. She was strangely consoled by it. I think of that as I open my mail and, rifling through the various “please review my books” emails, find this: I wanted to follow up on... Read more

can be found over at Dawn Eden’s blog. She felt prompted to run it in response to comments from a Protestant reader on this thread. It seemed appropriate to me. By the way, you can read *all* of Mary, Mother of the Son if you just click here and order it. Read more

I’m an avid reader of your blog and want to say thanks for all you write – your postings are some of the more thoughtful on the interwebs. I noticed a St. Thomas More quote on one of your postings today, and it brought to mind a question I’ve been pondering lately. I’ve always been an admirer of his, and only lately have begun reading more about his treatment of heretics as Chancellor. Pretty gruesome stuff, burning people alive and... Read more

Here’s another gem: The sanctity of life argument is dead; and abortion foes who continue to spout that pious nonsense will have to become vegans who only eat plant products that do not damage in any way the parent plant. If life is truly sacred, eating any plant or animal would be counter to god’s will, an idea no more absurd than claiming that eliminating an undifferentiated ball of cells is murder. One of the effects of sin is that... Read more

It’s a tried and true way of tried to simply stamp out legitimate moral objections that won’t go away, so naturally you find it at HuffPo. Simply declare the objections that your opponents are so over or say something like “We’ve heard it all before” as you continue pressing for great evil with a string of emotive gibberish, insults, and non sequiturs wrapped up in some of the most tortured syntax I’ve seen in years. Season with Gaia worship to... Read more