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December 2017

December 21, 2017

Dickens Best Christmas Story: The Cricket on the Hearth

Get thee to the Dickens' Christmas story you have not read: The Cricket on the Hearth. ...

December 20, 2017

A Saint for Our Time with an Advent Message

Advent is the prelude to new life in the nativity of Jesus. To live that...

December 19, 2017

Get a Bear: Building a Home

It turns out that you can build a house a bit like build-a-bear: one piece...

December 18, 2017

Wise People Still Can Lose Their Heads: the Prudence of Christmas and Hope of Christmas

Our floors at Saint Anne's are hard on ornaments and recently a wise man was...

December 17, 2017

The Shattered Ornament: You Cannot Destroy Christmas

Christmas is indestructible even if we are not.

December 16, 2017

The Star! To See the Stars . . . (Questions from Crown 10!)

My academic life has specialized in general education: helping find the tools to learn anything. There...

December 15, 2017

The Persistent Beauty Of Christmas

Ugly is easy.

December 14, 2017

We Know, We Learn (Crown College Question 9)

When I was a child, I would roll the dice and then count the dots....

December 13, 2017

Unexpected Gifts

There are Christmas miracles and then there are good parents. I have seen both and...

December 12, 2017

Advent and Christmas are the Mercy We Need

During Advent, I try to turn from seeing problems in other people to examining my...

December 11, 2017

Variety is the Spice of Life: Christmas Music

If variety is the spice of love and music is the food of love, most...

December 10, 2017

Music Lessons are not an Extra

Music matters. Teach your kids any instrument and have them stick with it to the point...

December 09, 2017

Dominance of the Opiner

We no longer expect our leaders to know anything.

December 08, 2017

Snow in Houston: the Gift of the Delightful Surprise

College could wait, so could every other class at The Saint Constantine School. Snow came...

December 07, 2017

Remember . . . Remember . . . Not Just the 7th of December

They still remember Pearl Harbor at the ceremonies in our government and my guess is...

December 06, 2017

Be Like Santa and Love the Truth So Very Much (Saint Nicholas)

Do I love the truth beyond all passion? When the stubborn desire to win my...

December 05, 2017

Brother Slave: Redeemed on a Holy Night

Growing up I dreaded O Holy Night, as the song tended to bring out the faux-opera...

December 04, 2017

The Progressive Element Everywhere

Some devils would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, but imagine preferring to...

December 03, 2017

Muddling Through: Opposing Individualism and Statism

Christians must help the poor and must oppose injustice to the poor. Stop. Read it...

December 02, 2017

5 Infallible Lessons About Colleges From CS Lewis

The Problem The state university is underfunded when it comes to academics, but bloated with...

December 01, 2017

Santa is Sort-of-Real: Telling the Truth About Santa

My Dad was plain: “No mythic fat man is getting the credit for the presents...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Wasted Land: Life in the Median

I have always wondered about America's road medians. There must be thousands of acres...

November 29, 2017

Learning to Play: God help us.

If you have not seen a five year child unable to play, you are blessed....

November 28, 2017

My Presidential Tree Ornaments

Our family Christmas tree will never be featured in a magazine. An eccentric mix of...

November 27, 2017

Elvis, Santa, and God’s Children

We need not lie to children, but we should let them pretend.

November 25, 2017

What is Justice? Doing Justice to a Fine Comic Book Movie

You are going to a film with characters named “Wonder Woman,” “Superman, “Batman,” and other...

November 24, 2017

Sad, but Better: Four Things that Help

Some people don’t see well, others of us have biologically based “sad.” Our “feels” are...

November 23, 2017

Under the Mercy- the Piercing Joy of Embracing All of Reality

To embrace all of reality, metaphysical and physical, is to find beauty, but as any sage...

November 22, 2017

Perverse Matter? What Plato and (Some) of the Fathers Mean

When I tell someone I am a Platonist, they often assume I hate the material...

November 21, 2017

Thankful For Mercy with Truth: the Eternal Relevance of Philosophy (Crown Question 8)

Greek philosophy is worth our time, but it is not all sufficient. We should follow...