In Medias Res

Phil Christman, Why Christians Should be Leftists A wonderful, short--and yes, somewhat rambling, but only in the way the best kind of earne...

[Cross-posted to Religious Socialism ] Phil Christman, a writer and lecturer at the University of Michigan, is a committed Protestant Christ...

As always, this is my listing of what I think were the best movies I saw in the past calendar year, not necessarily movies that came out dur...

Last week, on a clear and cold Friday afternoon, I joined a couple of hundred other people to attend, and pay our respects during, the grave...

John Lennon was murdered 45 years ago this evening, on December 8, 1980. The photo attached was taken that afternoon--ghoulishly, but entire...

Double Fantasy is an iconic album, for obvious reasons. Leaving behind Los Angeles, May Pang, the experiments (and exasperation) in the stu...

It would be nice to believe that Lennon wanted, in early 1975, with his immigration woes and his conflicts with the U.S. government apparent...

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ]  Last week I attended the " Kansas Summit for Religious Freedom ," a gathering designed to pr...