Periapsis

A Periapsis Christmas

New, from authors Alexander Hellene, T.J. Marquis, and more ... Christmas sci-fi and fantasy! Sometimes you need a little holiday from all the holiday stress. Even if you love Christmas, you can find yourself feeling smothered and looking for an escape. Enjoy Christmas "away" in this festive anthology of five…
December 30, 2022
Holy Spirit

Except in the Holy Spirit …

... no one can say Jesus is Lord. Some recent examples from Twitter: In case you're just joining us, the above exchange is a textbook example of the still infallible Witch Test. Here's another demonstration:     At this point, so many anti-Christs who cloak their Death Cult proselytizing in…
December 29, 20229 Comments
Broken Generation

The Broken Generation

It's often said that a definitive experience of Generation Y is getting mugged by reality. They came of age as the post-WWII economic boom and post-Cold War optimism faded. In an era when every day was Christmas, Baby Boomers' promise that getting a liberal arts degree would guarantee a place…
December 28, 20229 Comments
Star Trek V

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

We are now deep into the point in the Star Trek film series when the principle actors started getting behind the camera. The move from starring to directing inevitably led to self-indulgence. We saw the first glaring signs of this trend in Star Trek IV. Today, we examine the series…
December 27, 20229 Comments
Anime by Decade

Anime Ground Zero

You knew it was coming sooner or later. In another blow to the meme of Based Japan, I regret to inform you that anime did not escape the blast wave of Cultural Ground Zero. H/t to author JD Cowan, whose post last week inspired this one. To give an example…
December 26, 202229 Comments
Jesus Nativity

The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ

The Twenty-fifth Day of December, when ages beyond number had run their course from the creation of the world, when God in the beginning created heaven and earth, and formed man in his own likeness; when century upon century had passed since the Almighty set his bow in the clouds…
December 23, 202213 Comments
Christ's Birth

Defending December 25

Advent is back, so the Reddit atheists and pagan LVRPers have returned to display their historical and biblical illiteracy. That means it's time to republish this perennial favorite post so my readers can demolish internet atheists' cringe "Christmas is Pagan!" memes. December 25 really is the date of Jesus' birth.…
December 22, 20226 Comments
Star Trek IV

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

After the two-part tour de force of The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock, the challenge of producing a fourth film to top the second and third seemed insurmountable. And as things turned out, it was. That's not to hate on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It…
December 21, 20229 Comments
Christmas Toy

A Gen Y Christmas

A reader writes, Brian, My wife and I re-watched a handful of Christmas movies while wrapping presents for my side of the family last night. One section of our DVD library is just Christmas movies, most of which are now decades old, which I realize now is almost a physical…
December 20, 20222 Comments
A.I. Art 4

Anti-A.I. Astroturf

As I mentioned last time, the upsurge in anti-A.I. art sentiment doesn't seem entirely organic to me. People had been talking about art algorithms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for a while. My friend, author David V. Stewart, even did some videos on A.I. book cover design. Sure, these algos…
December 19, 20228 Comments