Call an Assembly: The First Duty
In The Supper of the Lamb, a delightfully odd book, Robert Farrar Capon suggests as an exercise in reality an extended session with an...
Religious Liberty?
Alexandria, VA. Vast and even incalculable quantities of ink have already been spilled over the issue of the HHS mandate that religious organizations purchase...
Driving Around the Panopticon
Plenty of space, I concluded with a glance at the approaching headlights in my left mirror. I let the clutch out smoothly and started...
An Open Letter to Karen Heller
Devon, PA. Cursed with a lousy city newspaper rife with good coupons, I sat down with my coffee this morning to read Karen Heller's...
Creative Fidelity and Weighty People
In Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the character Tomas is an inveterate womanizer, a man who takes notes on the particular physical...
What’s Wrong With Iowa? (A Transplanted Professor Knows)
If you think you may legitimately enjoy the physical benefits of a place while dwelling in the airy regions of judgment above it, you’d better think again.
Conservative in America
Kearneysville, WV. As this election cycle grinds on, and as Washington prepares for CPAC's 2012 event, each Republican candidate continues to claim that he...
There is No Such Thing as a Bank Loan
“Dexia” is not a word familiar to most Americans, and if told that it is a French bank in need of a fresh bailout,...
Education and the Way Home
Holland, MI
The recent dispute between Joe Carter over at First Things and various occupants of the Porch has already received a good deal of...
The GOP in Limbo: How Low Can You Go?
Newt Gingrich is a master of righteous indignation although he’s far better at being indignant than being righteous. What's going on with conservative Christians?