You can ask me. I'm a Bob Jones graduate remember? When I was at Bob Jones the term "fundamentalist" was only just beginning to get traction as a pejorative term. The Protestant fundamentalists at Bob Jones wore the label with pride. It set them apart from the Evangelicals they considered to be sweet, soft and spineless. [...]
As we enter Holy Week we must remember the huge consequences of the choice made by human beings on that fatal week. The death of Jesus is not simply the tragic death of a good man. It is not just the heroic death of an idealistic martyr. It is not just the unjust execution of a [...]
G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead." I've been pondering this for some time from a couple of different perspectives. First of all, in the present political maelstrom, when all seems uncertain and insecure, where the old definitions are dissolving and [...]
They're finishing an exciting re-make of the classic film Ben Hur. Ben-Hur is a major Paramount Pictures/MGM motion picture hitting theaters nationwide on August 12, 2016. Bursting with action - including a new chariot race for the ages - and elevated by Christian themes of justice, liberty & radical forgiveness, it tells the classic story of [...]
Nicodemus - played by Laurence Olivier. Remember the Jewish Leaders who loved and defended Jesus. In reading the daily gospels this passion week it is frightening to see the traits of the religious leaders who killed Jesus. They exhibit the kind of anti-religion that develops within any religious system. It has shown its ugly [...]
My article for Imaginative Conservative this week discusses the visual age we live in and why it is increasingly like the Middle Ages. One of the reasons I sometimes wax nostalgic for the Middles Ages is for the religious spectacle. This was an age of the dramatic gesture: St. Francis standing barefoot in the snow or [...]
Yesterday the Boston Globe pulled the plug on its support for the Catholic website CRUX. I had the privilege of attending the star-studded launch of CRUX about a year and a half ago. I was in Boston at the time and went along to meet the folks and find out what was up. I knew John [...]
...Why would you do that? My blog posts on Catholic fundamentalism this week have provoked the predictable tempest in a teapot. Some have questioned why I do not have a comments box on my blog and suspect it is because I do not have the courage to debate with people. The fact of the matter is [...]
Check out this stunning video of the construction of our new church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Greenville. Would you please help by sharing this as widely as possible? [youtube]https://youtu.be/SUhLV_DOZiY[/youtube]
St Benedict ...is another name for the Benedict Option. My latest article at National Catholic Register assesses the signs of the times and wonders if it isn't time to emulate St Benedict--who headed for the hills when faced with a society in terminal decline. By the end of the fifth century, the Roman Empire [...]