Historian David McCullough rsquo s newest offering The Greater Journey Americans in Paris includes a roadside stop between harbor and metropolis in Rouen to see its cathedral He writes The Americans had never beheld anything remotely comparable It was their first encounter with a Gothic ma
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
Posted inTelevision
Chicken Little Gets Her Gun: TNTs ‘Falling Skies’
Catch a glimpse of America’s ballistic soul on ‘Falling Skies,’ the popular new sci-fi series on TNT.
Posted inIn All Things
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an academic in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a book And that doesn rsquo t mean a Kindle or an iPad We need books whose pages we can fold whose lines we can mark in whose margins we can correct the author with our own quips That rs
Posted inThe Good Word
An Outrageous Indulgence
George Swanson Starling spent most of his adult life in Harlem working as a train porter but the Black American had been raised in the racially segregated South picking fruit for pennies an hour in Florida groves Like many of us George had envisioned a very different life than the one he got
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
American Exceptionalism and Christian Humility
Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet ag
Posted inIn All Things
American Exceptionalism and Christian Humility
Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet again
Posted inArt
The Storyteller’s Art: Rediscovering Norman Rockwell
Though often spurned by critics, Norman Rockwell has always been popular.
Posted inTelevision
When I Grow Up: TNT’s ‘Men of a Certain Age’
The three lead characters on “Men of a Certain Age” aren’t buffoons, the role that middle age men play in most sitcoms.
Posted inMusic
Neverland Awaits: Is Michael Jackson our future?
Was Michael Jackson our once and future king? Did his life chart the course of our own?
Posted inTelevision
Manhattan Gothic: Mad Men and the shock of recognition
Like Flannery O’Connor, “Mad Men” radically resets a situation so that viewers see themselves from a previously unknown vantage point.