I have somehow avoided, for all of my post-18-year-old years, having to serve on a jury. The only […]
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“Death is almost certain.” “Death is not always a great evil, Monsieur Champlain.” This exchange at the beginning […]
To continue a thought from the last thing I wrote, horror movies can, on the one hand, serve […]
“So, you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we […]
I am always interested to see how horror movies treat exorcism, demons, priests (usually), and the threat of […]
I have been reading some more Stanley Hauerwas (this book), which is a dangerous thing to do if […]
She was in her senior year of high school when she got pregnant. The fear came over her […]
Euthanasia is a euphemism. They share a Greek root for the word “good,” “eu-.” “Eu-phemism” means, literally, to […]
We like to watch train wrecks, even if we watch them through our splayed fingers. In Not Okay […]
I do not think there can be any denying the truth that our modern life is an anxious […]