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Hey Redmond, Washington!

I’m coming to speak at St. Jude’s tonight at 7:00 PM!  We’re doing a three part series on Scripture that will give you an overview of natural revelation and the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the four senses of Scripture! The series will run tonight, December 13, and December 20.  See you there!

Trump gave a donation to James O’Keefe

…professional liar and fraud, before O’Keefe sent (again) somebody to lie for him.  This time it was a woman who went to the WaPo to lie to them that Roy Moore had impregnated her as a teen. The most incredible part of the hubris of Liars for Jesus are the people who look straight at […]

People of the Lie

Back in 2011 the issue of the Noble Lie really came to a head when prolife Christians lost their minds and decided that it was a brilliant idea to become Liars for Jesus. I warned at the time that this was both sinful and stupid and that the Church taught that lying is, by it […]

Fr. Hugh Barbour seek our help…

…to save refugees: The war and conflict in Syria have left thousands of people destitute and in need of basic necessities.  We continue to work in the region with bishops, sisters, and social workers on the ground to provide emergency relief and pastoral help for displaced and refugee families. Our donors’ kindness continues to provide […]

There are no borders for Christ

The next in my series on the Canaanite Woman: As we saw last time, Matthew himself shows Jesus interacting with Gentiles and even going so far as to tell his fellow Jews that “many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while […]

The Star Trek Transporter Problem

Is it a suicide machine? CPG Grey messes with your mind.

Goody! A Free Course on St. Thomas by Peter Kreeft!

This is so great! In September, The King’s College released a free, self-paced micro-course by Dr. Peter Kreeft titled “A Sample of Key Concepts from Thomas Aquinas.” This four-lesson course expounds key texts from Aquinas’ Summa Theologica about the existence of God, the relationship of reason and faith, and the connection between God’s will and human will. With half-hour […]

The Sex Predators Everyone Still Worships

A cogent piece on those areas of our culture where predators are still coddled, protected, and admired: It is not enough to absolve ourselves by pretending that this has always been a cloak-and-dagger affair. Hollywood culture is rape culture — and it always has been. There is a reason that “casting couch” is a slang […]

A Thanksgiving Paradox

Here’s an excerpt from a bit of whimsy I wrote a few years back on one of the ironies of the American Founding and our Puritan heritage: As an example of what I mean, consider the curious interior of King’s Chapel in Boston. An amalgam of Puritan and Anglican heritage, it was assiduously scoured clean […]

A Proclamation

By the President of the United States of America It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, defending us with His guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad and vouchsafing to us in His mercy many and signal victories over the enemy, who is of our own household. It has also […]