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1. Biggest thing first: January 2014 marks the publishing debut of Darwin's sister Rosamund Hodge. Her YA novel Cruel Beauty is a stea...

On June 28th, 1914, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, fifty-year old Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated in Sara...

I'm in that nice part of pregnancy in which I can almost forget, at times, that I'm pregnant. Oh, you know what I mean. I love Baby,...

Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic has a post approving of yesterday's ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act . His jumping off point is a...

Perhaps many will soon find themselves in the position that my family was in recently, on the announcement of a relative's impending ho...

...And when we hold our Shakespeare reading, we're all going to speak the way Shakespeare intended. Inspired by working with Kevin Sp...

Back in my native state of California, ever at the cutting edge of cultural change, the State Assembly has passed a bill, AB-460 , which is ...

In one of those local news stories that catches the popular imagination, second grade Catholic school teacher Carie Charlesworth made first ...

It's hot, and my big girls are out of town so it's quiet, and maybe it's pregnancy but the whole house smells like ashes despite...

Every year, friends of mine throw a big bash on the weekend closest to Midsummer. This involves drink, zany costumes pulled from a big stor...

One of the interesting things about following blogs of several different types is that one ends up running into conversations that wouldn...

Donald McClarey, whose son died a month ago yesterday, posted a prayer in time of grieving yesterday which all of us will find ourselves in ...

Laura Keynes is a descendant of both biologist Charles Darwin and economist John Maynard Keynes. She's also now a Catholic apologist. ...

The gospel from last Sunday struck me with unusual force. The story is the familiar one in which Jesus is dining with a Pharisee and a woma...

Thanks to all who completed the DarwinCatholic reader poll. The results were as follows: Roughly 170 readers completed the poll. The sit...

The DarwinCatholic reader demographic polls (seen on the main page above the posts -- if you're reading via RSS click through) are open ...

Up in the attic I found, in a stack of yellowing magazines, a Saturday Review dated January 5, 1952 which featured a cover article by Rumer ...

Lo, more than a quarter-century ago, I went to a slumber party at which we watched, on broadcast TV, a version of Babes in Toyland. I rememb...

The day is stacking up busy here, so I thought I'd try something mildly indulgent for a data monkey like me and post a couple of polls t...

There's a class of show which functions as a soap opera for those who like to feel they're above soap operas. Make it a period dram...