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November 2017

November 20, 2017

What if I had not married your mother? (Crown Question 9!)

The day came when our children realized that their mother and I might not have...

November 19, 2017

How to Birth Curiosity and Joyful Learning (Crown Questions 7!)

I long to have a mind awake, a good heart, and do justice with mercy....

November 18, 2017

All Passion is From God: Sort Of (Questions from Crown 6!)

All passion is from God, but what we make of it can range from the...

November 17, 2017

Siding with Someone Else . . . (Questions from Crown 5!)

He needed certainty or he was lost and this made him miserable and everyone around...

November 16, 2017

A Passion for Knowledge (Questions from Crown 4!)

As reading any news thread shows, passion can provoke problems, God help us. The better...

November 15, 2017

Advent is a Fast Leading to the Feast of Christmas

Basic rule: you need pain for pleasure. Clarification: this pain is not the nasty pain...

November 14, 2017

Plato to the Rescue for a Lost Culture (Questions from Crown 3!)

If you have not, read Plato. He points you to God (Laws), but he is...

November 13, 2017

Those Irritating Academics (Questions from Crown 2!)

Spend enough time in graduate school and it is hard to write a normal email....

November 12, 2017

Being “Intellectual” Is Not the Answer

Christianity demands we avoid “intellectualism” and instead strive for wholeness.

November 11, 2017

Descartes: A Complaint

Descartes is a great Christian philosopher and I am a guy who reads him yearly...

November 10, 2017

Doug Jones for USA Senate in Alabama

When corrupt crook Edwin Edwards ran against David Duke for the Senate, reasonable Christians voted...

November 09, 2017

The Danger of Advocacy Scholarship

Education is going to have to change the way it does business or face a...

November 08, 2017

Mercy: God Knows We Need It

Nobody can demand mercy or be angry if it is not given. We plead, beg,...

November 07, 2017

We Meant Well: The Millions Dead Were an Excess of Enthusiasm

If a writer defends the Bolshevik revolution, or soft soaps the nightmare of the Gulag...

November 06, 2017

Purity: The Young People On Purity

It is important to know what the students in our public schools are thinking.

November 05, 2017

The Enduring Wit of Teachers: November, 1907 Calling

One virtue of classical education is that the lecture, the performance of the sage on...

November 04, 2017

We NEED Some Specially Designed Fall Suits FOR YOUNG MEN

The Business Man looks at the young Lad (a Euclid School Graduate!) and despite his...

November 03, 2017

What the Kids Did in Music Class Was Shocking!

Ignatius H. Lanzarone, or someone who uses that name, is the cartoonist for The Daisy,...

November 03, 2017

The Games the Thing Wherein We Capture the Conscience of the City

Most Americans do not care if the Houston Astros are World Series champions and I...

November 01, 2017

Baseball and the Bible Endure

The young people of the 1907 The Daisy are all gone now, but once they were the...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

What is Lovely about Being a Christian

There was a time when I stayed with Christianity, but I was not happy to...

October 30, 2017

The Pastor of Bray: A Song for the Court Evangelicals Performed!!!

The English court could hand out cushy jobs if you were cozy with the political...

October 29, 2017

I Do Not Love Death, but I Love the Dead

Here is a glad thing about Halloween. We laugh at death, because death has no...

October 28, 2017

God’s Will: Know It

Americans: we have many good traits, but like any nation some odd ones. We made...

October 27, 2017

Get Your Head Right: Everything Else Follows

My table manners were wrong for a French resteraunt and wrong in different ways in...

October 26, 2017

Plato and Forms (Questions from Crown

A nifty advantage to Christianity is that while revelation helps our reason to some sensible...

October 26, 2017

Fake Heroism versus Real Heroism

Tyrants love pomp, puffery, and pretend heroics. The pomp entertains the populace, the puffery salves...

October 25, 2017

Coming to the Promised Land: We Move, You Can Too

The children of Israel fled Egypt with mounds of stuff. The stuff got burned off...

October 24, 2017

A Song For Robert Jeffress after His Moving Visit from Hannity

I once rewrote a song, The Vicar of Bray, that should have “Dr.” Robert Jeffress humming:...

October 23, 2017

The Spirit-Filled Life of Jesus: Humility (The Ghost of Mark Driscoll Speaks)

Jesus. Jesus was humble so Christian leaders do not have to be. He took on...