Borders Blues
It’s not like I was a frequent customer. Its absence doesn’t directly affect me at all. But Borders Books is no more, and I have the Borders blues. Oh, I freely admit I’ve been an Amazon junkie for a...
View ArticlePolitics, Christians, and the 3rd Commandment
At the outset of the 2011 election campaigns, here’s another plea that Christians become aware of the ways we are divided by the waves of moral manipulation in the mouths of candidates of both parties....
View ArticleLoving Mrs. Turpin, Loving the Grotesque
If I were less ordinary, reading Flannery O’Connor would be more fun. As it is, I inhabit the commonplace, and she lives in a different dimension, a place, as one critic put it, of living gargoyles....
View ArticleWhich Mythical Creature Are You?
Though I’ve finished the mini-series on neo-Christian myths, perhaps I’ll just add this postscript to the last entry on celebrity status. Consider it a trailing lament, I guess, a sadness that we feel...
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