Alleluia! Christ is risen! It’s Easter!
Wait, you think. It’s Thursday. Isn’t it a bit late for all of this Alleluia stuff? Easter was last Sunday. Let’s remem...
For Easter, I decided to go to Mass with a close friend of mine. He’s attended Protestant services with me for the past month, so I thought that I ought to retu...
My senior year of high school, all the girls were raving about Ben Barnes, the actor who played Prince Caspian. I, not being a fan of long hair, preferred the a...
John Updike was one of the great American novelists of the past half century and one of only three writers to ever receive two Pulitzer prizes during his lifeti...
My dear Wigglesworm,
It has come to my attention that your charge has been admitted to Harvard, and that you are inordinately proud of this development. I wr...
Around this time in April, a little less than two thousand years ago, a man on a cross was crucified on a hill on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Why? (more...
I remember telling a friend a long long time ago, when I was just 13, that when I first started writing it was because of beauty. It was because of my otherwise...
In my last post, I looked at how Dante uses the weaknesses and failures of Virgil as a character in the Divine Comedy to illustrate the impossibility of true st...
I went to a Phillips-Brooks House Association Leadership Intensive this past weekend. It wasn’t particularly fun, though I did somehow manage to learn a lot, es...
Recently, a friend emailed me asking for help because his girlfriend has been having trouble accepting God's grace. Over my short time as a Christian, I have me...
