Simul Iustus Et Peccator

Several months ago I wrote a post on the well known and now deceased “Painter of […]

A few weekends ago I traveled to South Carolina to spend a long weekend with […]

St. Vincent arrived in theaters just in time for All Saints’ Sunday, the day the […]

This comes from an essay Fanny Howe wrote, called “Keepers of the Image,” about her […]

Despite a few recent Mbird nods, as of three weeks ago I had no idea […]

The relationship between Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees is a drama-filled one. Earlier […]

I have been in mourning over the revelation of cyclist Lance Armstrong’s guilt for several […]

Despite the title, this is not a post about a Big Bang Theory episode. This […]

In sports journalism, athletes are constantly being referred to as “embattled.” Perhaps quarterbacks are given […]

This post will be an embarrassing one. I’ve started swimming at the YMCA in an […]

Here’s another zinger about our misguided ideas of spiritual progress from our favorite late Lutheran […]

Continuing our three-part series on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, we take a […]