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Culture wars? Relativism? The word “chalice”? TJP’s resident rhetorician Jayme Stayer gives us 13 examples of how the answers we give depend up on the (rhetorical) perspectives we take.

Why is it so hard to wrap up a phone conversation? Actually, Matthew Dunch has a better question: what’s missing from the conversation that makes us want to hang up?

“Shall We Call This the Promised Land?” Mario Powell makes his TJP debut by asking us what problems we can solve as individuals, and what problems we must ask the government to address.

Tim O’Brien helps us remember not only the 94,000 Americans who have died of AIDS, but the living memorial to them that is the AIDS quilt.

Perry Petrich on seeing a miracle with his very own eyes.

‘Roided up mercenaries with vague political agendas are fine, but Bane pales in comparison to these would-be Batvillians.

Even before the Olympics began, our Matt Dunch was in London musing on what it means to be “extraordinary.”

“Here’s the thing, you tell me what didn’t all come down to feeling good, and I will give you” – Briggs waved his hand. …I could almost see it.

Do you think love for Mickey Mouse means you love American culture in general? If so, Quang Tran would like a word with you…

St. Ignatius Loyola often called himself “the pilgrim.” Jay Hooks talks with another pilgrim, Fr. Pau Vidal, who, like Ignatius before him, journeyed through Spain on foot.