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Norm Macdonald’s Spiritual Journey
It’s often tempting to immediately canonize the deceased. But it’s never just: Heaping undue praise on a dead man can be even more insulting than speaking ill of his...
Yeezus Follows Jesus
He’s a jackass.” That’s what Barack Obama said of Kanye West in 2009, after West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the Video Music Awards.
Mayor Pete’s Woke Intolerance
In 2015, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg voiced a moral disagreement with Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana. Just days before Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act—which would...
Out at St. Paul
I have never seen so many male churchgoers in short shorts. As the priest concludes Mass, my eyes follow them—a platoon of twenty-somethings—ferrying boxes of chicken from Buffalo Wild...
Rejuvenation at Trinity Church
Trinity Church on Wall Street is in the middle of a “rejuvenation” project — so naturally most of the building is closed to the public. I discovered this first-hand...
