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January 2018

January 20, 2018

Euthymius is Great!

Some church leaders are wonderful, but intimidating. Some might want lunch with Saint Augustine, but...

January 19, 2018

Read Anne Spencer: God’s Flowering Beauty Overcomes Human Ugliness

Beauty is needful always, but just now deeply. God help us, but we need the...

January 18, 2018

The Mark of the Church

His name was Clement: student of the apostles. He saw a good thing go bad,...

January 17, 2018

The Lost King of France: Sorrow, Science, and Simplicity

This boy was born in luxury we can hardly imagine and died covered in lice....

January 16, 2018

Fire and Fury: A Sympathetic Account of the President

This is a review of a book, not of the President of the United States....

January 15, 2018

Don’t Go Up to Look Down

4 A little learning did not help me, but when forced in graduate school to...

January 14, 2018

Three Signs You’ve Found a Good College

School is expensive, choose wisely.

January 13, 2018

Ms. Brazile’s Must Read Book

Donna Brazile is the kind of person who might like a good word, even from...

January 12, 2018

On the Tyrant Soul

Soul work is frightening. It is easier to talk about politics than about our souls....

January 11, 2018

The Last Jedi and Being On No Side

Can’t we take our entertainment less seriously?

January 10, 2018

Pirates Are Not Good: An Insight

I never thought I would have to say this, but pirates were not good. Getting...

January 09, 2018

Thank You, Al Michaels: I do believe in miracles.

I have listened to Al Michaels for a long time, he is very good at...

January 08, 2018

PT Barnum and the Soft Con

Beware the soft con, the one that seems a bit like a joke.* Over the...

January 07, 2018

Love Thy Body: Nancy Pearcey’s Book, Brilliant if Flawed

I love this book, brilliant if flawed. You should buy it and read it, but...

January 06, 2018

A Year of Hope or Positivity

This is a good year for hope: the virtue that aspires to more. Hope is a...

January 05, 2018

Twelfth Day (Twelfth Day of Christmas): Coming to an Epiphany

Our revels are coming to an end, but this is good. Shakespeare owns our Twelfth...

January 04, 2018

Houston Christmas (Eleventh Day of Christmas)

Houston is the American city of the twenty-first century. Forget what you think you know....

January 03, 2018

Global Christmas (Tenth Day of Christmas)

Christians are everywhere and everywhere we are there is Christmas. I shan't try to "do"...

January 02, 2018

Rossetti Pierces My Heart (Ninth Day of Christmas)

She wrote a poem that became a carol, but do not limit Christina Rossetti. She...

January 01, 2018

Making a Home for the Holidays

We need to celebrate the full Twelve Days of Christmas, because Jesus was born of...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Time Lord (Seventh Day of Christmas)

Christmas is the eternal coming into the temporal. Time passes, but Christmas endures unmovable forever....

December 30, 2017

Jesus is the Reason for the Continuation of the Season

We need to celebrate the full Twelve Days of Christmas, because Jesus was born of...

December 29, 2017

Jolly By Choice (Fifth Day of Christmas)

Happy fifth day of Christmas! You Should Know It's Still Christmas. We are not yet...

December 28, 2017

The Present Did not Break: My Great-Grandfather’s Bible (Fourth Day of Christmas)

As a kid, I had broken my landspeeder by now or at least made it...

December 27, 2017

The Glorious Christmas, not Filostrato Tree (Third Day of Christmas)

We bought a glorious tree of the sort I once called a Filostrato Tree. The...

December 26, 2017

Boxing Day: Keep Giving Gifts! (Second Day of Christmas)

Now that the stores are not pestering us, we can get down to serious gift...

December 25, 2017

The Christ Mass of Hope: Christmas Day 1

It is the first day of Christmastide! This is the day where we get to...

December 24, 2017

Christmas Eve: Eve’s Day to Dance

Tonight one strong woman made sure another strong woman would spend eternity in Paradise. In...

December 23, 2017

Joyful Doubt at Christmas

Rejoice! One great good of Christmas is doubt that leads to wondering. At the end of...

December 22, 2017

Some Sentimentality

I asked Alexa for a Christmas movie and what she gave me was Christmas Town. To say...