It’s Gonna Take a Lot to Drag Me Away From You: Divine Pilgrimage in Dante’s Comedy and Toto’s Africa
Toto’s “Africa” displays all the features of a Comedy in miniature
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The Great God Leviathan
Ishmael, alone among the crew of the Pequod, worships the whale, and Ishmael alone is spared.
The Legend Of Zelda, Despair in the World, and the Christian Hope
The dark and gloomy atmosphere of Majora’s Mask makes it beautiful, reflecting the brokenness of the real world.
The Root of All Evil
Money is the ultimate idol, and to love it is to worship the state.
Faith is the Supreme Act of the Will: A Response to Zero H.P. Lovecraft
There is no reason why the Christianity which built Chartres Cathedral and conquered the empires of the New World should be incapable of taking us to the stars.
Farewell Mr. Smith
The high-water-mark of American civil religion was probably the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Jimmy Stewart plays the titular Mr. Smith, appointed by a feckless governor to fill an empty Senate seat. Once in Washington, Smith is forced to confront a corrupt political machine centered, to his horror,
A Modest Proposal Concerning Civic Celebrations
by Mx. S. Opress and M. T. Abyss and Associated Alts We are assured that we are, or are about to be, or are progressing towards, or will inevitably become a “Post-Christian Society.” There seems to be some disagreement about precisely how imminent this new society is, but we maintain
Clement of Alexandria: On the Passover
This is the first ever English translation of the fragments of Clement of Alexandria’s treatise On the Passover. The merits of this translation are due principally to the exertions of my Saturday morning Greek class: Ben Horvath, Dave Scherer, Jack Weisensel, Tyler Davis, Kevin Russell, and Eric Kanis. I have
Journey to Freedom: Esto Vir
Although often attributed to John Paul II, there’s no concrete proof of who actually said the phrase: “The issue of pornography is not that it shows too much, but that it shows too little.” Whoever said it, I can think of no better explanation for the Church’s teaching on sexuality.