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July 2019

July 14, 2019

No Verse 14, Without Verse 13: No Glory with Injustice (Habakkuk)

I long to see the glory of the Lord, but I cannot see His glory...

July 13, 2019

Living By Faithfulness : History and God (Habakkuk)

God is with us: justice with mercy are certain. And yet. And yet we will...

July 12, 2019

You Would Not Believe if Told, But Don’t Worry You Will Not Be Told (Habakkuk)

5 “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing...

July 11, 2019

Hope in God (Habakkuk)

Don’t despair: there is hope. There is hope in God, if not so much in...

July 10, 2019

Dialectic of Hope, Dialectic of the Prophet (Habakkuk)

There is hope: hope for all of us who see injustice first in ourselves (God...

July 09, 2019

On How We Got Morals, Versus The Nature of Morals

If I knew why I loved the beloved, this would not tell me if the...

July 08, 2019

God Spoke (Thanks Mom!)

My Mom and Dad never just give a birthday card: they underline, consider, and try...

July 07, 2019

Ancient Witches IX (Guest Post James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

July 06, 2019

“Backwards” Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Myth Exploded

A middlebrow social media site, often witty, described pre-Revolutionary Russia as “backwards.” This was twitty...

July 05, 2019

Intellectual Impatience (Philosophy Helps!)

We are building a building and for that we need an architect, engineers, and other...

July 04, 2019

The Glorious Fourth (Paraphrasing Lincoln in Divided Times)

At this eighth Fourth of July since joining Patheos, there is less occasion for an...

July 03, 2019

The Under 52% Suggestion (Presidential Update)

What is the state of the race? We have an incumbent president slowly moving up...

July 02, 2019

All that Free Beauty . . . Plant a Garden

The stars are ours, all of us, a beauty that never ends, changes interestingly, and...

July 01, 2019

Berkeley is Beautiful

I spent several Glorious Fourths in Berkeley, California. Perhaps, the most old fashioned rousingly patriotic...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Ancient Witches VIII (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

June 29, 2019

Don’t Wiggle and Win: Find the Truth

And yet you and I could have wriggled just like him, if we’d wanted to...

June 28, 2019

Educational Reform? (Laches)

Jesus made Peter breakfast and an apostle was reborn. Plato found Socrates and philosophy keeps...

June 27, 2019

Summary of the Democrat Debates

Since 1861 the Democrat Party was not going to win with a vote from the...

June 26, 2019

Arise, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Our Ministry to those with Special Needs (Guest Voice)

I am thankful to know His Grace Bishop Thomas, a teacher, leader, and compassionate man...

June 25, 2019

Thoughts on the End of the Year

At the end of this year, The Saint Constantine School saw success by any measure...

June 24, 2019

Wax and Wane: Just What Happened to Brandon Sanderson?

The Mistborn series was the best fantastic literature of the last twenty years . ....

June 23, 2019

Wrong Ideas Were Helpful (Heraclitus)

Wrong ideas can be helpful. . . Sometimes. Nobody ought to wish to be wrong, but...

June 22, 2019

Is this the best of all possible worlds?

I was chatting with a social media acquaintance, someone I hope becomes a friend, who...

June 21, 2019

Ancient Witches VII (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

Dido isn’t the only character in Vergil’s Aeneid who resorts to necromancy when she hits...

June 20, 2019

Finding the Room (Team JOPE!)

Hope (the Fairest Flower in Christendom) had to find the room in which I was...

June 19, 2019

This Juneteenth and all the Summer Days: Unwritten (Tracy K. Smith)

Sometimes we should read before opining: Unwritten Neither do I think it would at all...

June 18, 2019

All “Things” Steered Through All (Look for the Design)

227 The wise is one thing, to be acquainted with true judgement, how all things...

June 17, 2019

Ancient Witches VI (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

The Hellenistic kingdoms bound the Mediterranean world together more closely than at any time since...

June 16, 2019

Smooch! (On Father’s Day)

My father is profoundly good and most of us cannot just go do as he...

June 15, 2019

Insolence is more to be extinguished than a conflagration. . .

248 Insolence is more to be extinguished than a conflagration.* So said Heraclitus: the wisest...