Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

“Strange Rites” and the promise of natural religion

Along with many other cultural commentators, I have been tracing for the past many years the phenomenon of religious disaffiliation, the sobering fact that armies of people, especially the young, are leaving institutional religion behind. […]

Big Media Mad at ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) – Mainstream media, Big Tech titans and “fact-checkers” have launched a coordinated blitzkrieg against the term “mass-formation psychosis” popularized by mRNA vaccine platform inventor Dr. Robert Malone.  Meme mocking fact-checkers’ attempts to discredit Malone The designation used by Malone to unmask the global hysteria triggered by State-sponsored fearmongering over the China virus went viral after the scientist […]

Some New Zealanders With COVID Could Be Eligible for Assisted Dying

The following was originally published at Mercatornet.com. When the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, I speculated in MercatorNet: Perhaps a healthy by-product of the pandemic will be to renew our emphasis on caring for others. The widespread death toll of the virus forces us to recognize the preciousness of all lives and the tragedy of all […]

U.S. Supreme Court Oddly Silent on Federal Vaccine Mandates

Courthouse News Service—Businesses all but assured that the Supreme Court would issue guidelines on the new federal vaccine-or-test mandate set to take effect Monday got only crickets, creating national confusion about policy that prompted the justices to hold a special session last week. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the mandate in November, implicating…