Full disclosure: I’m a lifelong admirer of Harper Lee. My book Terrapin was inspired, in part, by her storytelling in To Kill A Mockingbird. We corresponded in the 1990s. None of this makes me an expert on […]
What are Catholics to make of the big environmental questions: climate change, deforestation and habitat loss, water quality and water shortages, the extinction of species, fossil fuels? How compatible is environmental activism with Catholicism? What […]
I have an idea for a science fiction story featuring a race of brilliant creatures that invade Earth. Wait a minute, you’re saying. This story has been told a thousand times, and better than you […]
Philosophy? Not for me, many insist. In fact, all of us have philosophies, whether we realize it or not, and whether we can describe them or not. Most have encountered the words Materialism, Nihilism, and […]
In today’s world, isn’t it crazy to appeal to scoffers to consider Catholicism? Why would a rational modern man or woman in the 21st century be attracted to what the world and its enlightened guides […]
I once read an account of a student who challenged his teacher by stating that the teacher’s reliance on Christianity was a crutch. The teacher responded by admitting that Christ was his crutch, adding that […]
Tick-tick-tick, goes the clock. We measure time in seconds, minutes, hours, days; scientists, in nanoseconds and light-years, giving us the impression that time is quantitative and fixed. Not so fast, my friend, as ESPN’s Lee […]
Who wants to be a troglodyte, insensitive, intolerant, a bigot? That’s the label you are wearing these days if you oppose gay and lesbian marriage. Let everyone make their own choices is the public mantra. […]
At first glance, the Jacobins, Marxists, Nazis, rapacious industrial and financial oligarchs, and modern jihadists have little in common. Weren’t the Jacobin revolutionaries democracy’s standard bearers? Weren’t they guided by reason and Enlightenment principles? Aren’t […]
In comparison to casual fans of The Hobbit films, I suspect I’m in the minority that enjoys reflective and instructive interludes between battles, chases, and mind-numbing mayhem. More than a few national reviews of The […]
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