The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

A pox upon the supreme court. A pox upon JK Rowling. A particularly nasty pox upon "Sir" Kier Starmer. 

A meditation for Good Friday. A little boy was playing with his crayons.  "What are you drawing a picture of?" "God." ...

About a decade ago, we had a serious conversation about whether or not the Silver Surfer has a willy. The answer, you will recall, was “Up t...

If your school still had religious assemblies, you probably puzzled your way through Cardinal Newman’s Dream of Gerontius, which worked its ...

There has been a good deal of fuss about the rumour — which is still only a rumour at time of writing — that Meryl Streep has been cast as t...

In 1948, Lewis wrote an essay about women’s ordination, or, as he very provocatively put it, Priestesses In the Church. Anglicanism is a ver...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an allegory . Aslan is both a character in a fairy tale, and a symbol of the Christian Christ. In so...

  Longform essay on the Bad Thing, coming to blog later this month Available to Patreons as 85 page PDF right now. https://www.patreon.com/c...

Captain America: Brave New World was a good movie.  But The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was a  very  good television series. I might actua...