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• Turin Turnabout

  

  Turn about, they say, is fair play. Turin, on the other hand, is a city in Italy. Its claim to fame is a shroud housed there that is believed by many to be... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religious Studies

  

  Prominent public intellectuals, as opposed to us obscure private ones, often brashly castigate religious thinking. They may be aware that the vast majority of... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Belonging

  

  You never know where you might find yourself, but wherever it is it’ll cost you some money. Well, at least in this instance it did. Nashotah House sent me... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Glossophobia

  

  For a guy so full of phobias that there’s no elbow room at Hotel Fear in my head, people are sometimes curious as to why I don’t suffer one of the most common... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hidden Monsters

  

  I don’t think much about having been born male. I’m starting to realize that that’s because I don’t have to. The same is true of being caucasian, although I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Aka

  

  “Professor?” While not technically correct, I was surprised and not unpleased to hear the title yesterday while on the streets of Easton. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Summertime Boos

  

  There are so many of them that it’s difficult to keep up. Movies, I mean. And they can be an expensive habit. As some readers may know, I’ve followed The... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Begetting Fear

  

  Out on the nearby rail trail I use for jogging I often hear it. Gun fire. There’s a shooting range—out of sight, and hopefully, out of reach—not far from the... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Positive ID

  

  It’s a little bit worrying. Not just the GOP’s diffidence in the face of two mass shootings on the same weekend, but also the fact that the internet knows who... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Good Monster

  

  The little free library is a great idea. Just after our move last year we contributed to our local many times as we discovered duplicates in the process of... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Conjuring Success

  

  I wonder if it’s one of the consequences of success. While writing up some thoughts on The Conjuring diegesis, I got to wondering how accurate the movies’... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• International Standards

  

  I risk being seen as even more of a book nerd by addressing the topic of International Standard Book Numbers, or ISBNs. For those who’ve purchased a book in... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Decade of Augusts

  

  Well, my July post with past quotes was so much fun I decided to do another. Owen Chadwick once told me—or was it his brother Henry? They both came to my... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Sound of Musik

  

  “Why is there so much people here?” The words aren’t mine, but those of a random stranger I heard in Herald Square. Not only was it grammatically offensive, I... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Infinity

  

  It occurred to me the other day that I will never read all the books on my list. Only in my fifties, it’s not as if I’m knocking at death’s door, but who... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Victorian Nightmares

  

  J. Sheridan Le Fanu isn’t exactly a household name, but as a writer from the same era (and perhaps same cloth) as Poe, he was known for his gothic imagination. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Price of Writing

  

  Academic writing strives to remove personality from your work. It can be soul-crushing. I remember well when my daughter—a talented writer—came home in sixth... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Zone

  

  My youth—who am I kidding?—my life has been a search for father figures. Since I grew up with television, many of them came from the tube. The professor from... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Live Long

  

  Maybe you went through it too. In your teenage years the fascination began. Before you knew it, you had a stack of them tucked away, each well-thumbed and... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ghouls and Dolls

  

  It was my plan—as if plans ever really work out—to see Annabelle Comes Home on opening weekend. July got away from me but I finally found my way to the theater... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY