Essays & commentary
Essays and commentary on religion, politics, culture, and public life. Running, training, racing, and XC-SPI material is kept separate.
Every few weeks, I rise early and attend a 6:30 Mass. I no longer go every day or even every Sunday. The early weekday liturgy is easier for me: fewer people, fewer occasions to display conviction. No one observes whether I know when to stand…
Look at the fuck-ass time we are living in. The president of the United States went on national television Thursday night to announce that he had finally discovered devastating evidence of massive election fraud. The White House assembled the cameras. Government employees…
The Moral Issue of CHRISTIANITY Written: February 2026 to July 2026. This article was cleaned before publication using Grammarly, an AI-assisted writing tool for grammar and spelling. The Moral Issues of Christianity My struggle with Christianity isn’t that I see it as…
Disclaimer: Everything described below is something you should not do. These are bad ideas, not instructions. Damaging, disabling, blocking, hacking, tampering with, or otherwise interfering with surveillance equipment may be illegal, dangerous, and a great way to become the subject of a very boring official…
Let me begin with a confession: American democracy is not dead. That would be too clean, too dramatic. What has actually happened is considerably more embarrassing. American democracy has slowly, enthusiastically, and with enormous donations been converted into the world’s most expensive…
Teaching in rural America, if boiled down, is rooted in tension rather than tradition: certainty and inquiry. While this is, of course, my view on the subject, I still believe it holds true in most contexts. This tension, for example, draws most…
Bibliography and Endnotes at the bottom of the manuscript. If you have an addiction to the news, as I do, you may have heard the term ‘Christian Zionism’ being thrown around. Now, it’s a term that can mean A LOT, and comes…
It is quite easy to be a clown; you put a hat on. You paint a face, honk a horn. Even then, clowns aren’t very funny. What is somehow treated as more comical than a clown is fighting a bulls*** war for…
Recently, I have had a falling out with my belief in Jesus of Nazareth. It is not that I no longer believe in God, or in the figure (and divinity) of Jesus, but rather that I have been moving toward a rejection…
Modern society can often be seen as a rejection of what is ‘known,’ whether that ‘known’ be true or false does not matter; and instead, it is now the acceptance of what is believed. This is the thesis for my discourse. While this remains a claim without a…
20–25 minutes for a thorough read. I, for one, never really cared for Charlie Kirk. Why, you might ask? Honestly, I just found him annoying (ironic). His debating style was somewhat off-putting to me; I didn’t really care for his content, and our views rarely…
Mary’s Life Up to the Birth of Jesus By Colin C. Caso (Footnotes are at the bottom of the manuscript). There are two types of windows in our world: uncolored windows and stained windows. Uncolored windows are clear and transparent, offering people…