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April 2021

April 03, 2021

Endure as the Greeks Endured (The Greek Bicentennial)

In the United States, some are tempted to impatience or unseemly panic. Instead, we should...

April 02, 2021

The Passion of Jesus and Chios (Greek Bicentennial)

Rebellion against the tyrants was not their first choice. When the choice was thrust on...

April 01, 2021

Lord Byron Got One Big Thing Right (Greek Bicentennial)

Lord Byron is a poet vaguely known, little read. He can teach all of us...

March 2021

March 31, 2021

Some Mr. Booth is Planning Tonight

Every year Americans face two anniversaries on one day: the sinking of the White Star...

March 30, 2021

King Jesus and the Martyred Gregory: An Example for Our Time (Greek Independence Bicentennial)

The way is shut. It was shut by the martyred dead and only on the...

March 29, 2021

The Ad Celebrating Greece that Facebook Will Not Run: Solidarity with the Greek Republic and the Greek Bicentennial

Can Facebook cancel Greek history? Why would they try? Or are they merely unwilling to...

March 28, 2021

The Debt We Owe to Enduring Greece (Bicentennial of Hellas)

Athens is a home of all who desire to know. There is a diaspora of...

March 27, 2021

In an Illuminated Cave in Crete (Happy Bicentennial Hellas!)

One Christian in Crete, in an illuminated cave, was greater than all the treasures of...

March 26, 2021

He was born in the Tomb of Agamemnon (Happy Bicentennial Greece!)

Make history. Tell a story and root that story in the people, family, and times....

March 25, 2021

200 Years of Modern Greatness: Happy Birthday to all of Hellas

Two hundred years ago brave men stood for liberty against a cruel empire. They could...

March 24, 2021

Hellas: With No Monument to Preserve Her Except that of the Heart

Rootless, lost, unattached, homeless: these feelings overwhelm those who forget the mothers and fathers that...

March 23, 2021

The Dove, the Puppy, Athena, and the Mouse

Spring has sprung. In Houston that means critters, sheep gamboling at The College, chickens laying...

March 22, 2021

Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos (A Guest Post By His Grace Bishop Thomas)

Wise words are needed, a wise example more so, and Mary, the Mother of God,...

March 21, 2021

The Hectorate and the Beloved Community

The Hectorate, the league of hectors, is acid on the soul of the Church. These...

March 20, 2021

The Ball is Not a Chew Toy, On the Nature of Things (A Nessie the Wonder Dog Story)

Nessie has triumphed over her last ball at the cost of her favorite game. To fetch...

March 19, 2021

What in the world? The Glories of Really Hard Stuff (A Nessie the Wonder Dog Story)

Sometimes like Nessie, I just listen in wonder. May I never only listen to ideas...

March 18, 2021

Solidarity . . . Best I Can

Racism is evil. Objectifying women is wrong, a sin that is a particular application of...

March 17, 2021

Many Levels, Greater Joy

Hope came with a trumpet. Music filled the campus and an amazing thing happened. The instrumentalists...

March 16, 2021

Searching for Truth: On Pragmatics, Babies and Bathwater

A good life is more than pragmatic, but does take into account what works. If we are...

March 15, 2021

On Ideas without Mind: Could Be, but Probably Not?

A cosmos of physical objects alone would lack justice. Ideas, say justice, seem a different...

March 14, 2021

But Wait! (First Assumptions Count)

I think the truth is out there, is knowable (more or less). Reason, spiritedness, and...

March 13, 2021

The Snark Overflows

The snark generally consumes us. Avoid too much snark. In a grad school lounge, at...

March 12, 2021

Underdetermined

I never have a pass on making a bad argument. No scholar should claim more...

March 11, 2021

Necessarily Uncertain

The just will live by faith. Faith means we must be reasonable even when uncertain,...

March 10, 2021

The Limits of Unaided Reason

Human reason, yes, but give us also the revelation of reason that comes from God....

March 09, 2021

On Genuine Morality Without God?

Wisdom cries out, but we often miss her voice. We are too busy and too...

March 08, 2021

Losing is No Virtue, Victory at Any Cost Can Be Worse: An Argument in Favor of Civility in a Nation Seeking Justice

Are you tired of losing? Good. Any Christian citizen or subject of any nation will...

March 07, 2021

Vaccine!

I am thankful. I heard stories of what the polio vaccine was like, a bit...

March 06, 2021

On Being Good at the Doorway

Nessie waits. On the other side of the door is the human she knows as...

March 05, 2021

Just Tired (The Life of Nessie, the Wonder Dog)

No matter how good things are: sometimes we are tired. No matter how good things...