“Friends are just strangers you haven’t alienated yet.” If someone said this to you, you probably wouldn’t think that he had decided to refer to … Read More ›
“Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe’s inhabitants,” declares the back cover of Philip Ziegler’s work on the … Read More ›
The death penalty is one of the most controversial issues in society. It strikes at a fundamental religious and philosophical question: Can an individual become … Read More ›
On my dresser there is a photograph. It depicts my one-year-old daughter affectionately climbing on my back as I enjoy a cold post-lunch beer on … Read More ›
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Humanity consumes resources, but resources are finite. Therefore, we are destined to one day run out of … Read More ›
Dante’s epic The Divine Comedy depicts an archetypical journey of a human being through the torments of hell and the cleansing pains of purgatory, into … Read More ›
As a Christian conservative, I want to support the corporal punishment of children. I believe in the institutions that endorse it and trust the people … Read More ›
At heart, fiction is a made-up story. These stories draw on the real world for context, structures, settings, and even characters, however. More often than … Read More ›
Some people grow up in homes where the Christian vocabulary is in the air, a substance they take in and breathe out naturally. As a … Read More ›