Faith Flicks: Sources of Inspiration or Despair?
It seems that there is something stirring in the movie-making business of late. Namely, religious themes are reappearing on the radar in a more...
Honour and Ambition: Thoughts on the Requirements for Political Office
Politics is a curious business, and not just in the United States the Big Day approaches: Here in Ontario, Canada, about a four hour...
Must We Believe that Islam is Peaceful?
In another well-reasoned article by William Kilpatrick (we may disagree with some of his tone, but his points are good), he alludes to a...
The Neo-Pagan Limits of the Olympics
The much-awaited Olympics is now upon us in Rio, a city in a country in a continent mired in unmanageable debt and corruption. Surrounded...
Saint Benedict: Ora et Labora
Today is the feast of Saint Benedict (ca. 480-547), the father of Western monasticism and one of the main forces in preserving Western culture...
Winter of the Soul: A Spiritual Analysis of the Game of Thrones Pop Culture...
Game of Thrones, the wildly popular HBO series based off of George R.R. Martin’s high fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire, is...
Calum and Tina’s Childless Choice: A Reflection on Parenthood
The headlines proclaimed it, in a his and her perspective, on why a young-ish, urbanite couple plan never and, they mean never, never, never...
Glorying in Glass: A Movie Review of “Snow White and the Huntsman”
Year: 2012
Filming: Color
Length: 127 minutes
Genre: Drama/Adventure/Fantasy
Maturity: PG-13 (for intense themes, scary images, and fantasy violence)
Cast: Kristen Stewart (Snow White), Chris Hemsworth (the Huntsman), Charlize Theron (Ravenna), Sam Claflin (Prince William),...
Athanasius, the Iota, and the Homoousion
Today is the memorial of one of the most heroic bishops in the history of the Church, the late, great Saint Athanasius (+373), a...
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
(I thought a re-post of these thoughts from nearly five years ago now (!) was a propos, given our current Alice-in-Wonderland-cum-1984 world, making our...