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More recently, Taylor has written the greatest work yet completed on the secular reality of our times. In A Secular Age, he describes three successive sets of int...

But there’s more here than just an irrational fear of people with lots of kids. “Ah yes,” Hemingway points out with a little snark of her own: “How ‘intensely wei...

Finally, both the nature of the argument (which brings in the presence of the Spirit in their lives as the clincher) and the emphasis on the “presentness&rd...

Nor is Microsoft Word easy to use. Its interface is convoluted, baroque, making the easy difficult and the difficult nearly impossible to achieve. It guarantees j...

This says something important about the power of story. Whoever seizes control of the story controls the debate—and actual facts become secondary. Another tragic ...

2Pet. 1:16-21 ¶ For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of ...

But Hank’s death is radically different from the various killings Walt has orchestrated during his rise to power. It’s one the anti-hero doesn’t actually want, th...

One of the things that has mystified me for years is the standard contempt that is shown for the suburbs. The first house that Nancy and I bought was a little pos...

There’s some talk afterward, as there always is these days, about whether Federer should retire. This drives me crazy, so give me a second. Watching Federer decli...

I’ve been a little down lately. Not a lot down. But a little. I’ve got a bum shoulder, lately turning 50 has seemed like something that might actually happen to m...