Smitten With The Mitten: Beer in SW Michigan
Holland, MI
Most “beer ranking lists” have Michigan somewhere in the top 5 of best beer states. I don’t need a list to tell me...
Thanksgiving Reflections I
President Washington, in his original Thanksgiving Day proclamation, insisted it the "duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God," and...
The End We Imagine
I recently had a chance to watch the film The Giver. Sometimes we get films early, sometimes late, sometimes at the same time as...
Free Yourself from the Telescopic Morality Machine
There is one version of the history of modern media that is a story primarily about a drug, developed to make its users feel...
Beyond Josh Lyman Politics: How the West Wing Miseducated My Political...
A few years ago, Josh Lyman spoke at Harvard to a packed room of starstruck student politicos. It wasn’t the real Josh Lyman, of...
Christmas Comes But Once a Year; Or, Books to Buy Next...
Philadelphia, PA
R. J. Snell
A slow thinker and slower writer—some might say the reverse—I’ve been chewing over the Christmas season for the past few days,...
Bar Jester’s Writing Seminar II; or, How to Write Like a...
If you want to write worse than the average undergraduate male, consider philosophy.
On Dying Where You’re Planted: The Rooted Pastor
Manchester, CT
I am grudgingly accepting that you don’t choose the place; the place chooses you.
I’ve moved around a lot during my time on the planet,...
The Academy Awards as a Religious Experience
The stylish crowd that walked the red carpet to the Oscars likely had not donned their Sunday best earlier in the day for a...