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The catharsis of a sad story is the catharsis of a life lived in expectation that it is not now okay, but it will be okay someday.

We are defined not just by who we are, but by who we are in relationship to one another.

I too am obsessed with the psychology of do-gooders and how they help us understand the world we live in through their failed attempts at perfection.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Worst Possible Use of Free Will.”

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “A Fractured Inheritance.”

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Ballad of Donkey Doug.”

D. L. Mayfield recaps and muses on the lastest episode of The Good Place, “Jeremy Bearimy.”

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Snowplow”.

My immediate thought after watching “The Brainy Bunch” is that The Good Place is starting to feel a little too normal.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the season three premiere of The Good Place, “Everything Is Bonzer!”

Having thus cheated death twice, you might think that Thecla would abandon Christianity in favor of staying alive, but of course you’d be wrong.

We all expect to have important, dramatic lives. We all think we’ll turn out to be heroes. We’re just like Rainbow Man.

So, if Easter did coincide with an Anglo-Saxon feast to a goddess no one’s ever heard of—well, I mean, coincidences happen.

It’s called the “Miracle of Lanciano,” mostly because “Holy crap, we have bleeding human remains on the altar” isn’t particularly catchy.

The great thinkers of the Mediterranean have already identified the seven virtues and how you can acquire them! It doesn’t get much easier than that.

In the end, it wasn’t being at odds with his board of elders that brought Jonathan Edwards down—it was dirty magazines. Because, isn’t it always dirty magazines?