Quote of the Day
“It’s staggering really that modern American Christianism supports wealth while Jesus demanded total poverty, fetishizes family while Jesus left his and urged his followers to abandon wives, husbands and children, champions politics while Jesus said his kingdom was emphatically not of this world, defends religious war where Jesus sought always peace, and backs torture, which [...]

Vox Nova At The Library: Owen Barfield’s Eager Spring
For most of the Inklings, one of the things which bound them together was a distrust of the ways of modernity.[1] In many ways, they were reactionaries, and each tried to subvert the modern world by bringing to it an adaptation of some pre-modern way of life. For Tolkien, the Catholicized William Morris, aesthetic grace [...]

Honesty about Abortion
Ben Folds says this song is not meant to be pro-choice or pro-life.  It is just something he had to write after going through this experience. I think this song is true.  And by being true, it is pro-life.  Sorry Ben.

Welcome to Black Friday
Today is the day – the day of great sacrifice, the day of great salvation. Today, a great multitude of people will go out and celebrate their materialistic salvation, going forth to the altar of consumer sacrifice and giving generous donations to the gods of big business. Today is the day salvation, in which those [...]

‘Tis the time to liberate, indeed!
This is nonsense only Christians could come up with. Get this. The American Family Association (you know we’re in trouble right there) has initiated a boycott of the GAP and all of its offshoot companies because of this year’s GAP ad campaign which AFA says does not feature “Christmas” prominently enough among other holidays which [...]