“The Faith of the Cross and The Virtue of Dialogue “ A Review of Reasoning Together: A Conversation on Homosexuality. by Ted Grimsrud and Mark Nation. By Chris Smith.   Reasoning Together: A Conversation on Homosexuality. by Ted Grimsrud and Mark Nation. Paperback: Herald Press, 200...

Nonfiction:   I can't stand it anymore, I have to tell you what I'm working on.  I am writing a book based on the same idea as the Archetype site: a guide to help writers get the psychology right in their fiction! The book will have far greater breadth than the site, and go into much ...

Section 5: The Death of Tragedy: Tragedy has had a long history and has always been, and indeed continues to be, of great cultural significance.  Who has not heard of Shakespeare ?  Even my own mother, who left school when she was 15 in 1932 had studied Julius Caesar (not ranked as a trage...

A world-weary Baptist businessman I know likes to say, "Nobody will screw you like a brother in Christ." Meaning that there's a special kind of cynicism employed by people who use religiosity as a cover for dastardly deeds. I know......

On the Closing of Another Major Newspaper and on Journalism in General: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) These musings were triggered by the following article courtesy of Matt Drudge: Seattle paper says workers told jobs will end As someone who feels bad for those who fall on hard t...

What? Yes, this is what I read in Tristram Stuart’s comprehensive history of modern vegetarianism, The Bloodless Revolution. The man so famous for thinking animals are mere machines lived on a diet of vegetables from his garden! According to his friend and biographer Andrien Baillet, at least at h...

As anyone who's been paying attention this Session has discovered, Democratic Sen. Michael Sanchez is getting a reputation for publicly bad mouthing ethics and campaign finance reform measures and their supporters on the Senate Floor and in some committee hearings. According to Sen. Sanchez's rants,...

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I wrote about this topic previously in A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime. People come into our lives for different reasons. The internet is a wonderful tool to meet new people. I met some of my best friends online. Perhaps because internet sites tend to call people “friends” people slide in...

I had a throbbing headache, hung over from bar hopping around the D.C. area with a friend the night before. Now it was late morning, and I was running late for the drive back to New York. As I stood, luggage in hand, impatiently pressing the elevator button on the sixth floor of the hotel, I realize...