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June 2024

June 27, 2024

The Measure of a Life

Yesterday I spent some time with my Dad going through old files. We sifted through...

June 13, 2013

Remembering Papa, Barely

As a nine-year-old, living in a different state from my Papa, I was fairly unmindful...

March 2013

March 03, 2013

My Mother’s Morals

I’ve been thinking a lot about my mom these days anyway, since it has been...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

(One of) My History Hang-ups

Any Star Trek fans out there? The Original Series? Do you remember the episode called...

January 2013

January 05, 2013

Becoming a Neo-Pascalian

Yesterday I wound up the last obligations of my fall courses. This included grading a...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

Trinitarian Spirituality, 27: The End?

We’ve come to Anatolios’ conclusion, a chapter rich with ideas and summaries. I could...

October 01, 2012

Trinitarian Spirituality, 25: Source Code

Our friend Augustine, trying to understand the Three-in-One God whom we worship, resorted to Source...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

Trinitarian Spirituality, 23: A Christ Sighting

“We want to see Jesus,” they said (Jn. 12.21). This request, from a group of...

June 2012

June 07, 2012

Trinitarian Spirituality, 11: Riding the Rapids, or the Stream of Orthodox Christianity

If you’ve stuck with this exploration thus far, you’re doing well. I know we’re wrestling...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Trinitarian Spirituality, 10: Suspicions and Semantics

In our last post, we met some actual characters in the dialogue. Let’s all step...

May 22, 2012

Trinitarian Spirituality, 9: Cast of Characters, Better than a Russian Novel

Inside of the oldest church in Egypt We have a significant cast of characters when...

May 15, 2012

Trinitarian Spirituality, 8: What Makes a Heretic?

The brouhaha began because people wanted to understand, they wanted to explain, they wanted to...

March 2012

March 01, 2012

Fallen Threads I Will Not Search For

I HATE losing things. We all do, of course. Such losses are in turn...

February 2011

February 02, 2011

“Woman, you have great faith!”: Our Christian Memory

Whenever I teach a survey of Church history, I include at the very beginning some...