Is there a more unsettling day on the Christian calendar than Palm Sunday? The enduring quietude of Lent suddenly breaks,…
Christians, who celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus this weekend, still don’t know what to make of Pontius Pilate,…
The flattering headline on the Washington Post’s story this week about Pope Francis’s open-borders activism ran, “How Pope Francis is leading…
We were on to United years ago. Anyone who tries to turn Gershwin into a jingle is in trouble right…
Somewhere, there may be an alma mater with stirring music and world-class lyrics. If it exists, I’ve never heard it….
Steven Grasse’s Colonial Spirits (Abrams Image, 2016) is the wackiest drinks book I have ever read. (I state this with admiration, and…
A couple of years back, I wrote an essay about the blatant anti-Semitism I witnessed while teaching middle school in…
Sacramento The California Republican Party has been vanquished at the state level with Democrats having control of every constitutional office…
A national conscience stricken by collective guilt is not easily assuaged. For all the palliative steps that can be taken,…
Pretty much everybody who reads The Benedict Option, Rod Dreher’s Rx for Christians flailed and battered by modernity, walks away with a tenacious opinion about the book — ranging from “Praise the Lord” to “What’s this guy talking about?”
I see this a high compliment to the accomplished Dreher, blogger and editor for the American Conservative magazine, who has the gift of disgorging well-reasoned sentences and paragraphs faster than many of us can articulate a Starbucks order.
