For those of you who know me, you know that Shadow of the Bear is not really my kind of book. First off, it is contemporary fiction which i...

Due to the dearth of anything even close to good on American TV, my wife and I just finished watching yet another Korean historical drama-- ...

The second book of the Treegate series, Peter Treegate's War , picks up the tale at the Battle of Bunker Hill, with Peter, his father Jo...

Here's an excellent article by Armstrong Williams that explores the two alien extremes that are battling for supremacy over Western civi...

My generation may have been the last one that was trained to honor and respect the Founding Fathers of the American republic without the fil...

Click here for more info. Saint Jean de Brebeuf--also known as Echon--is one of my all-time favorite saints. A towering, masculine figur...

Click for more info. When I first saw this book, I thought, “Wait, when did Saint Augustine go to Kent? I thought he had lived his whole lif...

Writing humor is difficult. Because humor is so subjective, one of two things usually happen when people try to write it: 1.) It falls flat ...

A few days late, but I'm posting my rapture church sign here for future reference.

Though she has lived as a slave in Egypt for as long as she can remember, young Mara was not always so. She has no recollection of her paren...

Young Ranofer is the son of Thutra, master goldsmith. When Thutra died, poor Ranofer was left to the not-so-tender mercies of his half-broth...

Recently, our cable company sent us warning letters that our service could be disrupted if our TV wasn't fitted with a special digital c...

When most people think of Saint Patrick, visions of shamrocks, green beer, and yummy Irish "potatoes" spring immediately to mind. ...

The Christian Encounters series is a well-produced collection of short biographies of individuals who in some way impacted (or were impacted...

The Bantry Bay series by Hilda van Stockum wraps up with Pegeen , the story of an orphan girl who is taken in temporarily by the O'Sulli...

Having finished The Cottage at Bantry Bay , my children immediately began agitating to read the next book in Hilda van Stockum's series ...

This book came highly recommended along with several others by Hilda van Stockum. When I mentioned that I had never heard of them or that pa...

Having read Jeanne Bendick's previous books, Archimedes and the Door to Science and Galen and the Gateway to Medicine , I have been wai...

My wife and I went to Auriesville, NY back in September and visited Ossernenon, the site of the Mohawk village where Blessed Kateri Tekakwit...

I am not Irish myself. However, I grew up among Americans of Irish extraction and my wife is part Irish. I therefore have a great respect an...