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Words for Good and Evil 23 Aug 2013 | 07:08 am
The thing is, I’d rather write screenplays. Actually, I’d like to write novels that become screenplays. Or short stories that get spun into TV series. (Did you know that “Justified” is based on an Elm...
The lost conservative mind 19 Aug 2013 | 05:21 pm
I recently read Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, and composed a thought about it in relation to the state of this country, which perhaps more than ever before mirrors the state of man today—outwa...
On concession 7 Aug 2013 | 10:09 am
Some of you may like my latest essay on the Image “Good Letters” channel at Patheos. Others of you may hate it with a fiery burning hatred. Here’s an excerpt: It was an offering. I understand why you...
Against being against epiphanies 17 Jul 2013 | 07:05 am
Some of you may like my latest essay on the Good Letters channel at Patheos. It covers everything from Oliver Stone to a young Whittaker Chambers, with a slight dose of literary criticism mixed in. He...
Gentle disagreement 26 Jun 2013 | 06:47 am
I’ve been wrestling for weeks with how to be at peace with fellow Christians who also happen to be harmfully heretical (and popular) teachers. On the one hand, we’re all supposed to love one another a...
Uninterested 6 Jun 2013 | 06:29 am
Finally, fiction from me that doesn’t involve death or melancholy or predestination or anything else likely to induce heavy drinking. It’s all dialogue, and I wrote it years ago whilst sitting utterly...
The difference between being blessed and being spared 4 Jun 2013 | 05:01 pm
Some of you may like my latest Good Letters post. Here’s an excerpt: This quiet slaughter is perhaps the greatest perversion wrought by the devil after the fall. The most innocent among God’s most fav...
Sheep and wolves 24 Apr 2013 | 05:55 pm
Because I am a father I think about the parents of that boy torn to pieces, of his sister whose leg was taken. I think about those parents in Newtown, whose biggest Christmas purchases were coffins fo...
Everybody dance now 19 Apr 2013 | 03:05 am
Some of you may like my latest essay, “Art as a Common Gift.” Here’s an excerpt: Imagine that. Millions of people, many of them knowing not the first words of orthodox praise, harboring scant knowledg...
The lies in truth 10 Apr 2013 | 04:37 pm
Michelle Obama called herself a “single mother” last week and we’ll probably be hearing about it years from now. Some Obama opponents consider it evidence the president is an absentee father, others t...
