In Medias Res

[A meandering and marginally holiday-appropriate extension upon my latest Insight Kansas column .] Decades ago, the Christian theologian Sta...

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ]  By the time my youngest brother, Baden, and I arrived at the Spokane Valley Hospital in Washington sta...

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...