The Facebook post above is a real one. It is not made up. It is not a Photoshop. However, it was taken down by early evening today. Unfortunately for the GOP, this was both shared and had screen shots taken of it by various people and news organizations. Of course, since then, the Iowa GOP […]

A few months ago, the Boy Scouts of America took a vote that caused a split within its ranks. I viewed that with sadness, as I have been a Cub Scout, a Boy Scout, and a District Executive. Out of that split, there was a push to found new organizations that could provide a way […]

For far too long, a particular segment of conservative Christianity has been successfully lobbying Christians that the only way to be a Bible-believing Christian is to be a Young Earth Creationist. This has been so strong for several decades that our children have all too often concluded that they cannot be conservative Christians because they […]

I posted the poster above because in my experience, this has been what happens to little girls and little boys who speak out about sexual abuse. If an adult speaks out about sexual abuse as a child, they are often told that it is over. Why are you bringing it up, they are often told? […]

  For those of you who have a certain attraction to steampunk literature and have wondered how to properly tie a gentleman’s cravat, the above photographs are offered as a gentle incentive to do it correctly. It should be mentioned that the helpful aid of either a wife, or—even better—a batman can most certainly improve […]

Pope Francis shook up the scandal-plagued Vatican bank on Wednesday, removing four of five cardinals from an oversight body in a break with the clerical financial establishment he inherited from his predecessor. … The four cardinals were removed just 11 months into their five-year terms as commissioners, which began under former Pope Benedict, who resigned […]

  From Les Misérables: At the end of the day you’re another day older And that’s all you can say for the life of the poor It’s a struggle, it’s a war And there’s nothing that anyone’s giving One more day, standing about, what is it for? One day less to be living. At the […]

Tonight my wife and I were watching Les Misérables on TV. After we finished crying at the end, we looked up some of the lyrics. One of the lyrics that struck us most was near the end of the movie, when the barricades were being manned. It reads like a parent’s prayer, whether that parent […]

I had one of those, “the penny dropped,” experiences this morning. This morning before the Divine Liturgy, I was frustrated because of an interaction yesterday with a fellow priest in another state. It had to do with matters from at least four years ago. I had obviously been carrying it about because when the proistamenos […]