Ten years after the Crucifixion, the Emperor Claudius proclaimed Britannia a Roman province.  Rome would spend the next four decades battling for an area comprising most of…… Read more “Camelot’s Foundation (excerpt)”

In 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated: a few months later the Romanovs were dead and Russia’s Christians faced a campaign of persecution that would last for over…… Read more “NOTES FROM THE END OF TIME 16: THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION”

What men want to learn from Nature is how to use it in order wholly to dominate it and other men.  That is the only aim.  Ruthlessly,…… Read more “The Kingdom of Heaven Suffereth Violence: Popper, Gramsci and the Frankfurt School”

A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and…… Read more “Sisyphus at the Summit: the Faith of Albert Camus”

Tertullian is today most famous for saying “I believe because it is absurd.”  But, as Abraham Lincoln reminds us, “not every quote you find on the Internet…… Read more “the Big Bang and the Flesh of Christ”

Catholicism has a long tradition of describing the ineffable through art and architecture.  Statues and stained glass windows made the most difficult abstractions concrete for peasant and…… Read more “Kenaz Filan Goes To Hell (Pt. 2)”

Dried-up old moralists cackling with glee about how all their enemies are going to burn in hell.  Devout Fundamentalists suffering fear of damnation every time they touch…… Read more “Kenaz Filan Goes to Hell (Pt. 1)”

This week we have Late Notes From The End of Time. I filled in for Tom Kawczynski (who is busy writing another book) on his Free Atlantic…… Read more “Notes From the End of Time 10: Mere Christianity 1”

Originally published in Hybrid, October 2001 Both our phones are dead. They should be working: the payphone at Nostrand Avenue had a dial tone, even if I…… Read more “The Day the Mountains Stumbled”

What started with tiki torches and fisticuffs has now escalated to gunfire. The Left has martyrs in Kenosha; the Right mourns its fallen Portland hero; both sides…… Read more “Endgame”