Eat, Link, and Be Merry
Gene Fant talks University Statements of Faith. Why Sherlock Holmes matters. Are non-overlapping magisteria a myth? Fred Sanders counsels writers on learning the craft. Aikido and the Art of the…
Bowls of Milk
Something about nineteenth-century America made great novelists shoot for immense public success by eliminating what it was about their writing that made them great. The most obvious and egregious example…
The Broken Mystery and the Deus Obliviscitus
Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” but was already bored with the genre a year later, when he published its sequel, “The…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #31: Dogma and Doctrine
This week’s theme music is “An Ecumenical Matter” by Loose Fur, from Born Again in the USA. I like instrumental themes because I don’t have to slice and dice. The…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #30: REVENGE!
Our theme music this week is Ted Leo’s “The Sons of Cain,” from 2007’s Living with the Living. Does it remind anyone else of Hey Dude for some reason? General…
A Link or Eight for to Ponder and Meditate
Susan McWilliams laments that Modern Family has benefits that actual modern life has stripped away from most families. Patrick Deneen wonders whether 18th-century liberalism had inherent in its project the…
Dante 2010: Paradiso
Dante 2010: Purgatorio Dante 2010: Inferno Dante 2009: Paradiso Dante 2009: Purgatorio Dante 2009: Inferno Dante 2008: Paradiso Dante 2008: Purgatorio Dante 2008: Inferno I’ve taken longer than I would…
The Christian Humanist, Episode #27: Superheroes
General Introduction – Football season begins – What’s on the blog? – An argument about Jaws Our History with Superheroes – Crib notes: Only Gilmour was way into comics –…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 26: Friendship
Music this week is “Isn’t That What Friends Are For?” from Bruce Cockburn’s 1999 album Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu. General Introduction – What’s on the blog? –…
Book Review: About You
About You: Fully Human, Fully Alive By Dick Staub. 207 pp. Jossey-Bass. $22.95. Dick Staub is the host of what may well be the finest podcast out there on the…
Book Review: "Super Sad True Love Story"
Super Sad True Love Story By Gary Shteyngart 334 pp. Random House. $26. Gary Shteyngart’s third novel, the awkwardly if endearingly titled Super Sad True Love Story, is a dystopian…
Dante 2010: Purgatorio
Series Index for 2015 Dante Read-Through Dante 2010: Inferno Dante 2009: Paradiso Dante 2009: Purgatorio Dante 2009: Inferno Dante 2008: Paradiso Dante 2008: Purgatorio Dante 2008: Inferno Being a bit of…
Dante 2010: Inferno
Dante 2009: Paradiso Dante 2009: Purgatorio Dante 2009: Inferno Dante 2008: Paradiso Dante 2008: Purgatorio Dante 2008: Inferno Those of you who read my blog over at Hardly the Last…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 23: Fandom and Fanaticism
We’re a little rusty, but give us a break: It’s been a month. Also: No bibliography today. Also also: Our special guest is my wife, Victoria Reynolds Farmer. General Introduction…
Short Takes: I Write Like
I suggest the literary-minded among our audience head over to this website, which analyzes inputted text and tells you whom you write like. My answer, based on the post “Currency…