Beyond the Barricade

Do you hear the people sing?

Wine, Blood, and the Dithyramb: Spring Breakers In Review

One of the great things about Spring Breakers is that it captures some of the raw and hardly parseable emotional intensity of ancient drama. It’s catharsis on the level of Euripides.

Aut Divina Aut Ecclesia Mala

At the end of the day, there are only two possibilities regarding the Church: Either she is who she claims to be, or not. Either she is the divinely inspired Body of Christ; or else, she is a fraud.

Introducing Beyond the Barricade

Beyond the Barricade represents one attempt to sidestep the fervent but uncritical partisan wars of our culture, offering rational reflections on the good life in their stead.

Lost in the Cosmos

Love in the ruins, song in the sound. // I once was lost but now am found.

Filling the Holes in the Swiss-Cheese Theory of Natural Law

No natural lawyer needs fear the rationalizations of fallen man, for these excuses give us every reason to believe that he knows the law after all, even if he would rather act as though he did not.

Don’t Say Gay: Against an Unnatural & Unhelpful Categorization

The term “gay” only reinforces the mistaken idea that there is something essential about homosexual identity—that it’s rooted in human nature.

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