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Jason Stellman and I talk about the canon of Scripture….

…and how you know which books belong in the Bible. Hint:  Who gets to decide what pictures go in your family photo album and by what authority to they get to do that?

There is a wave of terrorism targeting people of color in Austin

A series of bombings has killed several members of the minority community in Austin. It looks for all the world like a campaign of white racist terrorism. But the Trump Administration does not believe in white racist terrorism. That is why he described Nazi terrorists who killed a woman at Charlottesville as “very fine people“.  […]

Andrew McCabe’s Statement on His Firing

I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City. I have spent the second half of my career focusing on national security issues and protecting this country from terrorism. I served in some of the […]

Steven Greydanus and I get wild…

talking about Stephen Hawking, wormholes, tessaracts, Einstein, the Big Bang, A Wrinkle in Time, the Eucharist, The Apostle, prayers for the dead vs. speculating about the fate of the dead, and all parts in between. Fun show!

I have been and remain leery of the Jordan Peterson Fad…

…but I think Bp. Barron does a decent job of discussing his attraction to many Catholics. The reason for my leeriness is simple: I no longer trust in the slightest the judgment of conservative Catholics on almost any issue or figure since they have been so wrong about so much so many times for so […]

John Oliver explores the bizarre world of NRATV

This killed me. But then, that’s kind of the NRA stock-in-trade, killing people. (NSFW). Relatedly, I got this from Mark Barden, the father of Daniel Barden, this beautiful little boy butchered at Sandy Hook.  Over the years, and with the help and support of the depraved NRA he and the other parents of the children […]

Heavenly Samizdat

My latest over at Catholic Weekly, looking at the New Testament as the underground literature it was and is: One of the oldest bodies of samizdat in the world is called the “New Testament”. It was written by a community living, not only under the threat of persecution by a brutal Roman regime that killed […]

If you are paying a ton of money for prescriptions…

…check out GoodRx.com. So, my wife and I are what young people call “old” and what we call “mature”.  Consequently, we take what other people call “drugs” and we call “medication”.  My wife needs Levothyroxin and I need various meds for diabetes. There was a golden time when we qualified for Washington Apple Health but […]

Bummer. Looks like “A Wrinkle in Time” is pretty bad

Deacon Steven Greydanus does the autopsy: One of the book’s most memorable bits — a scene that expanded my mind when I read it as a boy, and still shapes my thinking today — involves an explanation of space-time and the idea of a tesseract: a folding (or wrinkling) of space-time via a fifth dimension […]

Me not know art, but me know what me don’t like

So this exists: (Sculpture of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI by Italian artist Jago. (Credit: Federico Manzoni.) Jacopo Cardillo, an Italian sculptor of international fame whose art name is Jago, definitely took this definition to a whole new level when he decided recently to “undress” Benedict XVI and portray him shirtless instead of dressed in the […]