The most anticipated film of 2016 is due to release on December 23rd, and your humble writer cannot wait.
Jefferson assured the Danbury Baptists that the federal government would consider the church and state separate entities. He did not, however, offer that he would make the same separation between the state and God. Say what you will about the complicated and mutable theology of Jefferson and his Enlightened peers, but they understood that the…
The question here is not whether but when the secular West — both left and right — will fail, and in that failure what tradition supplants it.
When Pope Benedict XVI was announced as the new pope, I was in a restaurant in Fredericksburg running for House of Delegates — and despite all the media’s protestations, I was elated that Ratzinger had been selected. I couldn’t talk about it then, because when running for public office, musing on the inner workings and…