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Daily Don’t You Believe It! Eric Metaxas has combed the far corners of the known and unknown world to share startling and uncanny phenomena with...

A Few More #TrumpBible Verses This piece originally appeared in The New Yorker on September 3, 2015. To read it on The New Yorker website, click here. *** Republican presidential...

Mohandas! So they’ve done mermaids, beauties, beasts, genies and lions. But can Disney...

La Cosa Nostradamus The first time I heard of Nostradamus was the night we whacked out Joey Flowers behind Barboza’s butchershop.

That Post-Modernism! Spring will be here in three short months, and with it a new publishing season.

They Were Ahead Of Their Time It is no secret that the great minds of history transcend time, although Pythagoras was a real stickler for punctuality.

WHEN TITANS CLASH: The James Joyce/Gertrude Stein Feud The feud that raged between James Joyce and Gertrude Stein in Paris between the years 1921 and 1939 is without...

He Ain’t Sneezy, He’s My Brother Let’s get the facts out of the way: trying to make a living writing humor is an exercise in self-deception...

And To Think That I Saw John Gotti On Mulberry Street As I walked to the bus stop one morning last May at the loveliest hour of a perfect spring day...

Gen-X Bible Quiz! It’s a sad but well-documented fact that biblical literacy is plummeting.

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Remembrance and Ritual on Flag Day

A Republic, If We Can Keep It

Falling in Space, an excerpt from my new book FISH OUT OF WATER

On this day in 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer went to glory.

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From the Blog

Remembrance and Ritual on Flag Day

A Republic, If We Can Keep It

Falling in Space, an excerpt from my new book FISH OUT OF WATER

On this day in 1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer went to glory.

200th anniversary of Greek Independence Day!