A lot of little blogworthy musings on my second-favorite topic have been bouncing around my head. Given that Fr. Alexander observed “Everything in and of our culture is about the Kingdom of God, either for or against,” it may just be that these thoughts dovetail with thoughts about my most favorite topic.

Culture and . . […]

The word ’superstition’ has come to be a handy code word. By employing it strategically, a whole new generation of atheists has been able to describe any beliefs that can’t be proved by empirical evidence, from belief that Jesus Christ was the Son of God to the Loch Ness monster to lucky horseshoes. In lumping […]

Following up to that last post about the virus e-mail I’ve been getting, I got a (real) e-mail from MSNBC’s Website in response to my suggestion that they post a warning on their site about the spurious e-mails. Well, no such luck with my suggestion, but at least I’ve got a little more info now. […]

This is off-topic, but we’re obviously all computer-savvy people, so I thought it was worth doing my little bit to get the word out.
There’s a nasty, nasty virus e-mail going around right now. This isn’t one of those silly phishing letters with half the words misspelled that screams out ‘fake!’ This is an entirely believable-looking […]

Erin Manning is filling in on Rod Dreher’s Crunchy Con blog, and she has some very good answers to those who argue for gay marriage. She also brings up the fact that in terms of the long-term affects of this, no one has answers. But then those who are in favor of homosexual marriage are […]

I finished reading “Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett, and I was really conflicted about whether to say anything about it or not. It’s a hot-selling fictional treatment of how a 12th century English cathedral might have been built. That could have been a great book … heck, judging by the sales, a lot […]

Deb helpfully sent me off to this MTV page to translate some of Tom Cruise’s Scientology jargon from this video. As she says, some of the stuff still doesn’t make much sense. But at least I got an answer on the meaning of that bit about ‘getting those spectators out of there.’ Sure enough, “spectators” […]

Greg sent me this late last night, and I’m posting it right away because it’s very likely that it’ll get yanked off the internet REALLY fast. It’s a 9-minute video that Tom Cruise made to indoctrinate newbies into Scientology. The link is HERE.
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Tom Cruise is starting to be the new Michael Jackson. He just keeps […]

It’s bad this year. I hardly watch any commercial television, and when I do, I hardly ever sit through the commercials. There’s a mute button on the remote and a pause button (since I’ve got the digital satellite thing) and the all-purpose on/off button, and between those, it’s the rare time that I’m inert enough […]

I’m hoping that all God’s children have gotten the word by now, whether by e-mail or blog posts like Fr. Joseph’s (HERE) or articles like this one, but since so many people see movies over the Thanksgiving holidays, it’s worth a repeat: Don’t go to see the movie in theaters now called “The Golden Compass.” […]