The Wandering Heretic

I made a tribute post to the author/priest/sociologist Andrew M. Greeley almost two years ago now after his accident. Greeley was a huge influence in my life and remains so through his books and articles. Well, for some time after that, people wrote comments asking for updates on Fr. Greeley’s condition. I have had no [...]

I used to have a porn problem. No, not the kind of problem you are thinking of right now. Instead, I had a porn spam problem. Hundreds, indeed thousands, of comments with links to pornography sites were attaching themselves to this blogsite. Nor was I alone in this attack. Apparently Real Live Preacher had much [...]

Déjà vu: The ultimate “been there, done that.” For most people, déjà vu is a feeling, an uncanny impression that you have been in a place before, or met someone before, or generally been in a certain situation before; although you have no current recollection of it. It has been the rather tenuous basis for [...]

My last thoughts on the election; or at least my last published thoughts for awhile. I’m going to regroup and concentrate on what is really important: the Church as the Body of Jesus Christ and what that means in terms of perspective and daily life. Still, the election brings up some curious results. First of [...]

We, the United States citizens, have elected the first declared radically left wing President. It does not matter if the popular vote in favor of this change was 52% of the populace; this country works in terms of the electoral college and on those terms it was a mandate. Those in power will act on [...]

As I noted previously, just as Colin Powell called out the time of death for the McCain candidacy for President, his opponent’s V.P. candidate, Joseph Biden, got out the paddles and yelled “Clear.” In essence, though McCain is probably still going to lose, Biden’s statements gave some doubt that even Biden himself desires such an [...]

Updated: See below. Now that Colin Powell has probably given the coup de grace to the McCain/Palin candidacy, I am going to take some time to review or give my postmortem on this year’s Presidential Election. (Though barely a day after Powell pulled the trigger, Joe Biden dove in front of the bullet—but I will [...]

My last post discussed some of the rather strong reasons against Christians voting in secular elections. It also discussed the alternative of Christians voting for a third party candidate who has no chance of winning but accords the most with their ideals. Though some of the reasons  given in that post may have seemed spurious, [...]

Voting season has come to the American shores. Again, I chose, among a set of people I would not wish to lead me to the ice cream store, just which one gets my vote…or if I should vote at all. It may be surprising, in view of the last few decades, but the connection between [...]

I have been exploring the implications that the overriding government of the world is a monarchy. God is set as King of the world. He started being an active monarch during the ministry, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth. This monarchy continues to be active in our own day and beyond. As [...]