I wasn’t looking for George Herbert when I found him in the basement of a used book store two blocks down from the Eagle and Child. I was, predictably for an I...
I’ve always wondered what happens the day after the world ends. There’s a reason Pride and Prejudice ends with the wedding, Rocky ends in the boxing ring, and ...
In June 1938, Action Comics #1 sold for ten cents. The cover featured a muscle-bound alien in blue tights and a red cape, hoisting a green 1937 DeSoto with whi...
Warning: this article contains spoilers about the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In the spring of 1954, comic books were in serious trouble. That April, the Ger...
For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, P...
Today's Lectionary Reading.
Matthew 24:36 "But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”
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If Nietzsche’s madman ran into the middle of Harvard Yard, waving his iPhone flashlight above his head and yelling, “God is dead!”, not even the tourists milli...
We live in a paranoid generation.
I think I speak for most of my peers when I say that I’m terrified about the future. It’s not the same kind of anxiety th...
“I think you have something on your forehead.” That sentence runs through my mind around this time in March every year. It usually happens over lunch, between ...