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This blog used to be hosted at Patheos, but I created my own site because I wanted to get away from the increased commercialism. I also wanted to return to the more personal and relational style that I first had when blogging. As the readership increased at Patheos we lost the personal contact. I had to close the comments box because there were simply too many comments to moderate and extremists were using my combox as their soapbox.
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Standing on My Head
“A scene is often most clearly seen when it is seen upside down.” G.K.Chesterton
Why Did Jesus Walk on the Water?
Have you ever stopped to wonder and chuckle at the miracle story of Jesus walking on the water? What was that all about? We can understand that he healed people, cast out demons and
Conversations with Joseph Pearce – Meeting Solzhenitsyn
Joseph Pearce lives not far from us here in upstate South Carolina and he and I get together once a month for lunch and a glass of beer from the monks at Norcia. This
Donatism Today
One of the advantages of studying church history is that you come to realize that when it comes to heresy and schism there is nothing new under the sun. The same old distortions, faulty
Explaining Transubstantiation
I'm often surprised at the number of good, faithful Catholics who are well informed about their faith, who do not understand the doctrine of transubstantiation. In my experience they fall into two categories. The
Chaos, Conspiracies, Courage and Common Sense
The chaos of 2020 has spawned a pandemic of its own: a pandemic of conspiracy theories: COVID-19 is caused by 5G technology not really caused by it but the radiation makes you weaker and
A Detail on St James and Dating the Gospels
Today is the feast day of the Apostle St James, and it's worth remembering this piece from the archives which undermines the modernist Biblical scholars' attempts to put the dating of the New Testament
