Get Off My Lawn, Thou Knave
By an odd coincidence, the late William Hazlitt has been haunting my steps this week. The old gent showed up by previous arrangement in my
By an odd coincidence, the late William Hazlitt has been haunting my steps this week. The old gent showed up by previous arrangement in my
She interrupted my sermon. . .but then, I’m not a preacher. I’m a teacher–or I was a teacher. When I stood before them in that little church

There is a legend told in the “Little Flowers of St. Francis”—often referenced by its Italian name, “Fioretti”—of the town of Gubbio in Umbria in
I am always looking for jams to flow through my ear buds when I’m out running. This new beat has been on repeat as my

Has watching political debates become kind of like the old line about how people watch car races only in order to see the crashes? The
All is right with the world: the NFL has brought back their regular referees. A week ago the hallowed halls of the institution I serve

Most nights my family goes through the same rituals – the kids are herded up the stairs (which isn’t easy… they always have some excuse
My academic meeting for the month took place at Valparaiso University in Indiana. The occasion was a roundtable discussion of Brad Gregory’s big and big-splash

For the past three weeks, I’ve watched football games that have simply astounded me. The Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens broke out into more skirmishes