Left and right are the wings of the dragon that flail as it falls from highest heaven

One of my congregants brought my attention to a statement yesterday by Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and CEO of Samaritan's Purse...

  As a boy, I found the Second World War endlessly fascinating.  I'd devour books on the subject, and found WWII aircraft endlessly fasc...

As a Christian, there is, in this political season, a deep and abiding temptation.  I feel it, as others feel it. It is the danger of confla...

Late last week, I woke early and puttered into southeast DC on my scooter.  I was headed to a formerly industrial area near the DC Navy Yard...

Having a family business can be a good thing. Like, say, the humble hole-in-the-wall strip mall Chinese restaurant my own family has been or...

Falun Gong...or Falun Dafa...is such an odd thing.  In the United States, they're perhaps best known for the inescapable Shen Yun show, ...

The political season has begun, and that means for the next year, Godwin's Law will come out to play. Godwin's Law , in th...

As it drifts out of our low-attention-span popular consciousness, I can finally say: I had a heck of a time processing the Charlie Hebdo m...

I am a liberal.  When I encounter a reality, I only come to a determination of its worth after considering it for a while.  Which means, ...

The netrage is out there, about everything, about anything, and one rage-meme that's been popping a whole bunch in my feeds lately has...

It feels tragic, because it is. As the trial of Virginia governor Bob McDonnell came to its difficult conclusion, it'd be easy to gl...

When I first saw the research findings a few weeks ago, I knew it would cause a stir. The National Health Interview Survey is a CDC admi...

It was a long walk, but I like it that way. I'd rather not have walked it, because it meant an indefinite separation from my ailing ...

Divestment?  From Israel? That's the rumbling issue that's raising eyebrows, as the PC(USA) holds our biannual Meeting di tutti ...

When do you walk away from an irresolvable mess?  When do you walk away from a mess that you yourself made? After over a decade of Ameri...

It had been a lovely, lovely spring here in and around Washington, DC.  Summer is finally arriving. We've not had one for years, as ...

At a conference this last week in Washington, DC, a group of Catholic bishops and thinkers gathered to discuss the deep schism between Cat...