The Only Orthodoxy is Reason

The essay below was written by Ryan Painter, a prosecuting attorney for the State of Indiana.  While the essay violates several, if not all, of the Rules of The Only Orthodoxy, the Administration has decided to publish it as an excellent example of the sense of one side of the culture war in which this […]

Part two of Mr. Cook’s excellent series of essays authored for this site.
SATAN AND THE SECOND ‘MAN’
It is no secret that Jesus’s favorite term for Himself was Son of Man. But what He meant by that term is mysterious indeed. I read my Bible for years without understanding this subtle, almost literary term. […]

This is the first of a series of four guest essays by Tom Cook concerning the metaphysical implications of gender roles in the scriptural narrative. Mr. Cook is a medical student at Northwestern University, and a Catholic lay theologian. The essays are of interest both for the conclusions they reach, and the ’speculative’ […]

Today, a special treat. This guest essay was submitted by Dr. John Farnum, Ph.D., a theoretical chemist doing his post-doctoral work at Emory University.
In this essay, Dr. Farnum explains a scientist’s perspective on “the reality of the unseen,” which he describes as equally encompassing electrons and angels. Dr. Farnum makes a compelling argument […]