Faithful Departed — John Updike
I read John Updike’s Rabbit series when I was 22, living with nuns in the North Bronx. Perhaps needless to say, I had a lot…
Matches Made in Heaven?
Jeff Whitfield shouldn’t need any help meeting women. When he talks in his calm, Kentucky drawl about his past rambunctiousness and the salvation his faith…
Faithful Departed—David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was a famous writer, which is not that common anymore. He wrote “Infinite Jest,” arguably the most important novel of the past…
The Conversion of the Casual Evolutionist
For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your…
The Little Trash-Compactor That Could
Even by Hollywood standards the story idea pitched to movie executives for Pixar’s WALL-E must have sounded hallucinogenic: “So we’ve got this robot, but it’s…
The Passion of the Potter
Well, the Harry Potter series is over, and Harry still has not accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Sorry if I just…
The Conversion of the Casual Evolutionist
For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your…
You Can’t Be a Saint!
“You can’t be a saint,” one of my students told me, matter-of-factly. I was a bit troubled by this, as I had just told my…
Every Mother’s Son
While our nation’s ongoing war in Iraq is still a hotly contested issue, for many of us it remains just that, one issue among many…
Sitcom Karma
It’s bad karma to steal a car from a one-legged woman. In fact, it’s bad karma to do most of the things Early Hickey’s done,…
