Magazine Articles
Moral Hunger Without Grounding
A reflection on postmodern moral incoherence, public shaming, and the collapse of ethical foundations in contemporary culture.
Cody Lambert, a ’90s Sitcom Hero, and the Catholic Moral Imagination
This is an expanded reflection on Cody Lambert’s character and the kind of moral imagination often missing from contemporary television.
The Surfer Sage: What a ’90s Sitcom Taught Us About Goodness
A reflection on how a quirky 1990s sitcom character unexpectedly embodied virtue, innocence, and moral clarity in popular culture.
Deathbed Conversions and the Limits of Pascal’s Wager: Scott Adams and the Question of Authentic Faith
In Christian theology, salvation is not a bureaucratic threshold or an actuarial table. It rests on repentance, confession of sin, and genuine faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
The Philosophy and Theology Behind Stranger Things
The Netflix series, “Stranger Things,” gives us a layered account of evil that resists reducing all harm to a single explanatory framework.
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=EDBmpfbnLGk Author’s Preface: This three-part essay reflects on how evil distorts the divine image in …
Grace in the Gutter: A Christmas Reflection on Evil, Freedom, and Redemption in Bad Santa
Christmas proclaims that Christ enters precisely such places of deep fallenness. He comes not for the righteous but for the Willies of the world, whose faint gestures of goodness reveal that the divine image still burns beneath layers of brokenness.
In the Stillness, We Find Christ
Seeking God Through the Wisdom of St. Anselm and Blaise Pascal
The Lost Boys and the Failure of Our Institutions
We can look at the rise of figures such as Nick Fuentes as a crisis of true shepherds.
Why the “Right” Now Cancels Its Own
When we treat every uncomfortable query as morally suspect, we only imitate the reaction of the Woke Left, which treats disagreement, albeit incoherently, as intolerance.









