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March 2018

March 22, 2018

The Devil Never Had All the Good Music: A Review of Thornbury’s Larry Norman Bio

Chancellor Greg Thornbury at The King’s College (NYC) has written a biography of the Jesus...

March 21, 2018

Mercy and Help for the Powerless

You cannot read the Bible well and not wish to help the poor and the...

March 20, 2018

On Making a Slave and Screen Choices

You cannot make a man a slave only enslave him, but what if you can...

March 19, 2018

Why Everyone Should Support (Some) Humanities Majors (Despite the Problems)

Let’s begin any defense of Humanities departments by admitting that many Humanities programs at many...

March 18, 2018

Three Billboards and Some Orange Juice

The movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri tried too hard to be Best Picture. As a...

March 17, 2018

Authentic Authenticity

Authenticity seems like a great goal. Who wants to talk to someone pretending to be...

March 16, 2018

Rhetoric’s Role: Gregory, Augustine, Boethius

Spin, the art of making a bad case seem better, is bad for our republic....

March 15, 2018

The First World Series Win (Go Astros!), the Packers, Fandom, Marriage, and Next Season

When we moved to Houston, friends could not give away tickets to an Astros game....

March 14, 2018

Oprah is the Book of Judges: Every Man Does What Seems Right In the Tyrant’s Eyes

The Book of Judges ends with a sad description: “A man did what right according...

March 13, 2018

A Sadness that Does not Lead to Despair (Consolation of Philosophy)

I am often (deservedly) sad. This sadness is especially appropriate for the wrongs I have...

March 12, 2018

Timeless Providence

Boethius was a good man, but a tyrant was about to kill him. This is...

March 11, 2018

Can you ask God to leave?

We once told our son we were praying while at Disneyland. Our little boy pointed...

March 10, 2018

Still Sad: the Ongoing Pain of Death

Death has made me cry lately. That’s a Christian response to suffering. Jesus wept. We...

March 09, 2018

Build Beautiful Schools

Here’s a simple idea: schools would be better if they were more beautiful. What problems...

March 08, 2018

Living, Not Selling: Law, Education, and Christianity

We can put a monetary value on anything, but we should not sell everything. Some people...

March 07, 2018

Decree Justice

Here is a statement from God’s messenger: Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and...

March 06, 2018

No Party at a Public Hanging (The Consolation of Philosophy)

Nobody should have a party at a hanging, even if the hanging is just. We...

March 05, 2018

Invisible Men: the Immortal Genius of Ralph Ellison

Read Invisible Man. Not the HG Wells sort-of-good book, but the work of an authentic...

March 04, 2018

The Argument (Like Learning) Continues

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a human in possession of a good education...

March 03, 2018

Game Night: the Youth of Older Middle Age

Game Night is a pleasant date night, if you pay matinee prices and there is the...

March 02, 2018

Clarity Counts

If you want an American to dislike Plato, then give them Parmenides as the first book...

March 01, 2018

A Great Stream of Truth: Reading Great Texts

Great books, ones that have inspired all kinds of people over a long period of...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

The Need for “The Elders” (a poem by Mari Evans)

The great victory of the Civil Rights movement was not given to the African American...

February 27, 2018

Vindicate God

When I was a boy, I was entirely unable to make crafts. To hand me...

February 26, 2018

This Love for God

Yet there is a light I love, and a food, and a kind of embrace...

February 25, 2018

Icons or Idols

Today his family and community will begin the process of burying Billy Graham and will...

February 25, 2018

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Read as Young and an Older Man

Malcom X never grew as old as I am now. Instead, he was gunned down...

February 23, 2018

The Danger of Focusing on Technology (Guest Post)

This is a post from a former student responding to something I wrote about the...

February 22, 2018

Hope and Billy Graham

She never met Billy Graham, though everyone of our generation knew his name. She is...

February 21, 2018

Life as Continuum: Read some Mari Evans

Growing up more people knew Mari Evans than I encounter now, but then more people...