David Mills

With the Harry Potter  movie series now finished, we’re getting the last round of extensive discussions of the series. The Catholic writer Michael O’Brien has been very hard on the books, a position he explains in an interview with LifeSite News . Some of it’s a bit much, as when he says . . . . Continue Reading »

A book recommended for admirers of G. K. Chesterton: The Holiness of G. K. Chesterton , edited by William Oddie (Gracewing, 2011). It includes essays by the eminent Dominican theologian Aidan Nichols, who writes on Chesterton as a possible Doctor of the Church; equally weighty theologian John . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friend and “First Thoughts” contributor Shmuel Ben-Gad has a suggestion for the summer reading of those of you who read mystery stories: Elizabeth Daly: One of the Last, and Best, of Golden Age Mystery Writers . Her novels, written in the 40s and 50s when she was in her 60s and 70s, . . . . Continue Reading »

More on the NASCAR prayer featured in Boogety, Boogety, Boogety , posted yesterday: a report titled  Pastor Defends Calling Wife Smokin Hot Before NASCAR Race . The significant line: “I want to get somebody’s attention, so that’s been our desire every time we’ve been up . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friend David Goldman on the murders in Norway: A Time to Be Silent and Mourn . There is, he writes, a streak of human depravity that defies any effort to fit it into the pattern of events. It is suicide writ large, a propensity for self-destruction that wants to take with it as much of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Catholic blogger Mark Shea points to a remarkably dim article by the best-selling religion scholar Stephen Prothero titled  Catholics will accept a saint who had an abortion . The title reminds me of the punch line of a series of jokes popular when I was in junior high school, the first and . . . . Continue Reading »

Words fail me: A NASCAR prayer . . . . . Continue Reading »

An update on the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod’s understanding of Catholicism, which may now be the most famous theological claim in America, which I mentioned in Monday’s Michele Bachmann, the Anti-Christ, and the Political Theologian . The Christian Post   reports that the . . . . Continue Reading »

A magazine readers may want to know about: The Christendom Review . The magazine, all of whose contents seem to be available online,  describes itself as “a literary journal dedicated to the Diaspora of Christendom, that remnant of people who either deliberately or intuitively subscribe . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing as “Spengler” in his Asia Times  column, our friend David Goldman explains how  Obama could stir a Tea Party crisis  and use it to expand the state’s power yet further. The article begins: President Barack Obama’s best hope of re-election lies in . . . . Continue Reading »