Moral Hunger Without Grounding
Originally published in The Postil Magazine on February 1, 2026.A reflection on postmodern moral incoherence, public shaming, and the collapse of ethical foundations in contemporary culture. A soc…
Cody Lambert, a ’90s Sitcom Hero, and the Catholic Moral Imagination
Originally published in Catholic Insight on February 1, 2026.This is an expanded reflection on Cody Lambert’s character and the kind of moral imagination often missing from contemporary television. …
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The Surfer Sage: What a ’90s Sitcom Taught Us About Goodness
Originally published in Catholic Exchange on January 27, 2026.A reflection on how a quirky 1990s sitcom character unexpectedly embodied virtue, innocence, and moral clarity in popular culture. htt…
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Deathbed Conversions and the Limits of Pascal’s Wager: Scott Adams and the Question of Authentic Faith
Originally published in Crisis Magazine on January 15, 2025.In Christian theology, salvation is not a bureaucratic threshold or an actuarial table. It rests on repentance, confession of sin, and genui…
The Philosophy and Theology Behind Stranger Things
Originally published in Crisis Magazine on January 15, 2025.The Netflix series, "Stranger Things," gives us a layered account of evil that resists reducing all harm to a single explanatory framework. …
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The Skin of Confusion: Ed Gein, Gender Ideology, and the Culture of Denial
Originally published in The Postil Magazine on January 1, 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDBmpfbnLGkAuthor’s Preface: This three-part essay reflects on how evil distorts the divine image i…
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Grace in the Gutter: A Christmas Reflection on Evil, Freedom, and Redemption in Bad Santa
Originally published in Catholic Insight on December 22, 2025.Christmas proclaims that Christ enters precisely such places of deep fallenness. He comes not for the righteous but for the Willies of the…
In the Stillness, We Find Christ
Originally published in Catholic Insight on December 11, 2025.Seeking God Through the Wisdom of St. Anselm and Blaise Pascal St. Anselm of Canterbury stands as one of the great minds of Christian…
The Lost Boys and the Failure of Our Institutions
Originally published in Crisis Magazine on December 12, 2025.We can look at the rise of figures such as Nick Fuentes as a crisis of true shepherds. Modern Western culture speaks often of inclusio…
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Why the “Right” Now Cancels Its Own
Originally published in Crisis Magazine on November 28, 2025.When we treat every uncomfortable query as morally suspect, we only imitate the reaction of the Woke Left, which treats disagreement, albei…