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May 2018

May 21, 2018

Looking for a Christian Emperor

Constantine the Great, like Plato, manages to make enemies on the atheist and religious fringe....

May 20, 2018

Better Models, not More Money: Higher Education Solutions

Christian higher education is broken in ways that money will not fix. In fact, an...

May 19, 2018

Should “Progressive” “Christians” Appropriate Traditional Language?

If you have a wedding, nothing is worse than the vows you wrote yourself, at...

May 18, 2018

To Call a Man a Monster

Unless you are Stalin, Mao, or a few other people in history, nobody deserves to...

May 17, 2018

Hard to Agree

An odd thing about our times: it is hard to agree with authority, at least...

May 16, 2018

Merciful Romance

”She,” a friend noted, “is going out with you out of pity.” This was fine....

May 15, 2018

Do Not Be Conformed (Applying MLK Today!)

“Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to...

May 14, 2018

MLK: Tough Mind and Tender Heart

To do theology well is to pray well. Praying requires a “tough mind and a...

May 13, 2018

Great Administrators and the Qualities They Have

Administration must be cut, radically cut (including salaries), at most schools. That’s the truth and...

May 12, 2018

Don’t Step Back

My Papaw Reynolds had a favorite saying: “Don’t step backwards or the Devil will step...

May 11, 2018

The Common People Can’t Know: A Very Bad Idea

Reading Ibn Rushd (Averroes) is good: He is a careful reasoner and a chief cause...

May 10, 2018

Speaking, Writing, Talking About Any Holiday: the Doom that Cannot be Avoided

Mother’s Day. Father’s Day. Christmas. I am tempted to dodge writing about holidays just now,...

May 09, 2018

College Graduation: Is the debt worth the party?

Nobody should complain at a party: rejoice with those who rejoice. I love graduations and...

May 08, 2018

The Lost Joy of Learning

Dorothy Sayers rightly mourned The Lost Tools of Learning and I share her sorrow. Fortunately...

May 07, 2018

I aspire to be Photina: Begin Badly, End Well

She is the woman at the well, who met Jesus who told her all she...

May 06, 2018

A Lost, Lost Book

Every month or so, for twenty five years worth of months, I would reach for...

May 05, 2018

How NOT to be An Educrat

The news is alive with the Educrat: the autocrat of education. Secular schools have a...

May 04, 2018

Stability in a Leadership Team

Let us praise continuity and the leaders that provide it! In the marvelous television show...

May 03, 2018

Thriving at College (A Good Book full of Good Ideas)

Bottom Line: Professor Chediak has written an instruction manual for college as we know it....

May 02, 2018

The Eternally Earthy: The Middle Way of Christianity

The happy human is betwixt looking up to the stars yet with feet on good earth....

May 01, 2018

Look Past the Temporal to the Eternal in Politics (Dante on US Politics)

There is a medicine for what is making us sick politically: A good dose of...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Musing about Amusing or Comics and Conservatives: Where are they?

If over forty percent of Americans support the President*, why wouldn’t we anticipate a large...

April 29, 2018

Christina over Dante: A Better Rossetti for our TIme

I need more Christina and less Dante Rossetti. Both are (nearly) forgotten, so nobody should...

April 28, 2018

Let’s Not Cry Havoc and Let’s Chain the Dogs of War

Once the killing starts, deaths mount. The fringes, especially terrorists on the right, have started...

April 27, 2018

No, She chose beauty.

“No.” This is a powerful statement, particularly when said to what everyone is doing or...

April 26, 2018

In which I hymn Athena

Athena, You came into our lives in a small way and then grew in importance....

April 25, 2018

Et tu, Bruté?—Then fall Caesar. He dies

Imagine reading a great work and deciding you are a hero. This will not go...

April 24, 2018

Brutus: the good man corrupted?

Most of us are just good enough to be John Wilkes Booth, but a few...

April 23, 2018

Barbara Bush, The Last Roman Matron: Honoring Mothers, and Avoiding the Unctuous

Barbara Bush was (so far as I can tell) a very good wife, mother, grandmother,...

April 22, 2018

In Which Philip Glass Applauds My Friends While Creating Sublime Beauty

As a writer, Philip Glass is a great composer. I will try to defend this...