Some movies are intended for consumption; others are intended to consume. The Mauritanian is of the latter sort. It will consume your thoughts long after the movie ends. The issue is torture, and more specifically the use of enhanced interrogation at Guantanamo Bay in the years following 9/11. I’ve written before about torture, and why […]
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I just finished reading an excellent biography of Cato, not Inspector Clouseau’s Cato but Rome’s Marcus Porcius Cato a/k/a Cato the Younger (95 B.C. – 46 B.C.). Cato was known for his integrity in a time of intense political corruption and polarization in Rome that ultimately led to the fall of the Roman Republic when
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We are in the midst of a pandemic. And while history is no stranger to plagues and pandemics, we have not seen a pandemic like this in America or the world in general in over one-hundred years. In a previous post, “Will This Be the Church’s Covid-19 Legacy?,” I asked whether the Church would be
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Halloween is this week. It’s obviously a beloved holiday because Americans spend more money on Halloween than any other holiday except Christmas. I’ve wondered in a past blog post whether those in the occult complain about the commercialization of Halloween like Christians do about Christmas. I’ve written on the history of Halloween. But as I
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Like most of America, I was shocked to see the news about the three girls who had been kept as sex slaves for ten years in a perv’s basement in Cleveland. I was not, however, surprised. What happened in Cleveland was a logical progression from the standard narrative our culture feeds us about women: that
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When the Apostle Paul found himself in front of the Athenian Supreme Court with an opportunity to reach the most powerful men in Athens with the gospel, he drew on his knowledge of their culture. In pressing home a point regarding the relationship of man to God Paul said, “…for in Him we live and move
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