The Adventures of Captain Peabody

 [ A quick translation for the feast today, from the "most Roman of Popes," whose Latin eloquentia shines through very strongly in...

Abortion, Infanticide, and the Hubris of Technological Modernity For anyone living under a rock (or in a blessed state of not-following-the-...

A Short Guide to Barefoot Walking I do a lot of walking, and a lot of walking barefoot, regularly exploring roads, sidewalks, fields, and wo...

The Earth in Anarchy This is most likely the last thing I will ever write in this space on mass shootings. This is not an issue I prefer to ...

City of Valleys I want to write something about the place where I was born. Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama, but it is hard for me...

[ A new concept: after years of reading G.K. Chesterton's newspaper columns, I have really come to like the format. There is something i...