As I’m sure you’ve heard, the FBI raided former president Trump’s humble abode in Palm Beach on Monday night. That he is, oddly enough, a former president did not matter; neither did his inevitable jeremiad, declaring the Bureau to be the instrument of “a Third World Country”; nor did his…

Tuesday’s biggest takeaway is that the pro-life movement ran out of gas somewhere between Arrowhead Stadium and the Arkansas River. Earlier this year, Kansas’ Republican legislature tried to amend the state constitution to allow limitations and bans on the mother of all controversial medical procedures, with just one problem: They…

Pictured: Rembrandt, “Return of the Prodigal Son” St. Luke’s Gospel has in its fifteenth chapter one of the Bible’s best-known parables: Jesus, frustrated by the self-righteous entitlement of his rabbinical peers, tells of a son who spends his father’s “substance in riotous living,” only to return home in a famine…

Philadelphia’s not having a good year. On the one hand, we’re on track to host the World Cup and MLB’s All-Star Game in 2026. Our two prestigious universities (UPenn, Drexel) are on the cutting edge of medical research, and our construction cranes are the only thing that might rival William…

On a Saturday night in January of 2019, I heard something on Christian radio that gave me pause. For as long as I can remember — and longer — Focus on the Family has run a weekend broadcast that sends their worldview spiraling across the country, for an hour at…

For a moment, I’d like you to picture a football game — the night the Steelers refused to die. It lives forever in my personal football lore: December 9, 2021. That night, Pennsylvania’s other team went down 29–0 in the third quarter, only to reel off 20 straight points of…

When “the Colonel” Tom Parker first pokes his head out the door of the Louisiana Hayride to lay eyes on Austin Butler’s Elvis, the pink-suited Presley’s being trampled by nerves like a church grandma on Thanksgiving night. He’s not ready to play to the fans at the festival, he thinks…

Episode 5 of MARVEL’s Moon Knight series is all about delusions. During Episode 5, we see the handpicked protagonist Marc Spector go toe-to-toe with a psychologist/cult leader whose divine mission in life is to genocide every human with a high crime waiting in their future. For most of the 42-minute…

On Thursday night, Stephen Curry tallied 34 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists in Game 6 to deliver the Golden State Warriors their fourth NBA Finals title since he joined the team in 2009. But Curry’s championship masterpiece of a series against the Boston Celtics wasn’t just the capstone of…