David Mills

Yes, someone said that -- not a complete crank, either -- in an article for a third-tier conserative American publication that was essentially a rant, says <i>David Mills</i>, who took up his pen mainly because the author of the screed annoyed him. "The article's a rant by an ideologically marginal writer, writing in a marginal publication," but the author of the piece "does represent a large section of American conservatism, who think as he does."

yes, someone said that. and not a crank either, or at least not the angry living-in-his-mother's-basement crank you meet on the internet. hi...

Those who want the Latin Mass “only wish to be part of that ‘great orchestra’ of ‘unity in variety’ which, as Pope Francis said, reflects the true catholicity of the Church.” Many with leadership roles in the Church are keen to exclude them.

apparently they never give up. some bishops want “to see the extraordinary form of the roman rite explicitly suppressed, or subject to furth...

tory christian though he was, i think c. s. lewis would have approved of critical race theory, at least the way it understands human limitat...

People who you'd expect to be anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers turn out to be strongly pro-mask and vaccine — because they care for someone vulnerable. It's a teachable moment for them, but only if they see how their experience changes their politics.

from talking to them, you'd think they were undoubtedly anti-maskers, anti-social distancers, and anti-vaxxers. you'd bet good money they'd ...

The <i>Guardian</i>'s John Harris has no religion and regrets the loss of fellowship and shared meaning that religion provides the religious. His answer will not provide them. Only religion can do that.

dogs roaming the street in cairo, 24 april&nbsp; 2020. (photo by mohamed el-shahed/afp via getty images) he felt an envy for religious peopl...

Some Catholics hate Lent, loathe Lent, because it was taught to them as a reason to hate themselves for being so bad.

he'd failed at lent. the poor man, despondent in the middle of his first lent, found he couldn't keep the disciplines. he felt farther from ...

Sometimes we need to speak ill of the dead. We may need to speak critically when the dead is a public figure whose memory his ideological allies use to promote their cause. When political people memorialize him in a way that establishes their favored political narrative. We must criticize to try to establish the truth. And as Catholics, we should be critical for another reason.

it's not helpful when someone like a public figure dies, and the criticism starts, to say de mortuis nil nisi bonum . speak only good things...

ravi zacharias, who died in may of last year, was american evangelicalism’s superstar apologist. the movement’s flagship magazine, christian...

These people cheat. They don't want to argue with you, so they make you out to be the bad guy. They do it in two different but very common ways, both of which I experienced in this discussion. Almost anyone who argues a position will have suffered them too.

you should respect him, they said. listen to him. don't dismiss him, engage him. why are you so unkind? he deserves a hearing. in a magazine...

It’s the ecumenical dog that doesn’t bark. We need him to bark, but he rarely does, and then he's quickly shushed. It’s the matter of conversion. When we pray for Christian unity, as we do this week, we pray not only for kindness and fellow-feeling and some very foggy idea of joining together in the future, after a gradual convergence somewhere in the middle. We pray for our separated brethren to give in.

it’s the ecumenical dog that doesn’t bark. we need him to bark, but he rarely does, and then he's quickly shushed. it’s the matter of conver...