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January 2017

January 30, 2017

Finding Some Sense in My Sensibility

If one were to develop a clickbait test for Austen nerds, What Austen Character Should You...

January 29, 2017

On Being Margaret: Have Sense and Sensibility

There are three daughters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and on the surface that is one...

January 28, 2017

Never Forget the Editor: Caesar and a Millionaire

The best failed movie Disney ever made was The Happiest Millionaire. The talent is there and...

January 27, 2017

The Teddy Kennedy Exemption

For a good portion of his life, Ted Kennedy was not so good to the...

January 26, 2017

You cannot get the graduates of Christian Oxford with the Pedagogy of Bob Jones

I am a Christian school graduate. Thank God. Thank God Mom and Dad helped start a...

January 25, 2017

On Scale of Crimes: Don’t Buy Some Gnats, Because You Will Not Swallow a Camel

People are always doing wrong things to avoid doing another wrong thing. This is a...

January 24, 2017

Avoid Self-Deception in News Reading: With an Example!

I am tempted to like stories more that fit what I wish was, is, and...

January 23, 2017

They did it! (On Blame)

An important job for thinkers is to look for the root cause of cultural problems....

January 22, 2017

The Wind of the City: Civilization and Contents

The wind is blowing hard in New York City. Compared to Houston it is a...

January 21, 2017

A Coming Problem: Far-Right “Christian Paganism”

A person I admire wrote on adoption and I said what a good book it...

January 20, 2017

Why Lying is a Such a Serious Sin

Better to die than to tell a lie. Why? Truth is out there, but it...

January 19, 2017

What do you think about . . . Three Rules for When to be Still

I often get asked why I do not write on every Big Story of the...

January 18, 2017

Twenty-Five Questions to Ask and Things to Do Before Picking a College

I have spent over thirty years in higher education, mostly in Christian higher education. I...

January 17, 2017

Three College Half-Truths and How to See Through Them

One of my children got the mail and was excited. This young adult had received...

January 16, 2017

A brief, almost good word, about the Word of Faith Movement

Let's face it: the church of a Cross, martyrs, and the school for souls is...

January 15, 2017

Time to Honor Engineers . . .

Let's go back to the old custom of making heroes of our doers: engineers, scientists,...

January 14, 2017

Oh Tammy! (Debbie Reynolds RIP)

Rest in peace, Debbie Reynolds. She was actually a Reynolds and there aren't many famous...

January 13, 2017

The Pleasant and Unpleasant Sides of Being Lost

Terrifying to be lost as a child . . . looking up in the mall...

January 12, 2017

The Ethical Problem with Trump’s Plan: Help me Hugh?

The Trump administration is stillborn if he does not change his plans for his business....

January 11, 2017

Go ahead and build on the sandy land . . . sort of.

Jesus said a smart thing: 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does...

January 10, 2017

New Year Prediction: Will Donald Trump Finish His Term in Office?

At the start of the year, I take a look at the world and make...

January 09, 2017

These are not the mermaids we expected. . .

Today Columbus, the sailor and not the city, had a disappointing day. The report says:...

January 08, 2017

The Greater Erotic

Reason is a harsh corrective to fantasies and dreams. Some dreams cannot be. No matter...

January 07, 2017

Don’t Let Her Down Mr. Trump

Don’t let her down, Mr. Trump. I listened to my wife talk to a very...

January 06, 2017

Water First, Lecture Later: Let’s Give Water and then Preach

If you've ever been really thirsty, and found something to drink, that is the wrong time...

January 05, 2017

Twelve: It is Finished . . . in a Good Way

Christmas has one more glorious day: the Twelfth Day. Jesus is born, angels have appeared,...

January 04, 2017

Elevens: Being Right Without Everyone Else Being Totally Wrong (Eleventh Day)

In Symposium, the best part of the story is lost, because people went to sleep before...

January 03, 2017

Ten Commandments: One Law (Happy Tenth Day of Christmas)

A little bit of hunger makes me enjoy eating. Being thirsty makes drinking water wonderful....

January 02, 2017

The 9 Gifts of the Holy Spirit on the Ninth Day of Christmas

Scrooge understood Christmas and could not wait to go to work and celebrate with Cratchitt....

January 01, 2017

Rejoice! The First Eighth Day of God

Eighth Day of Christmas is, with Twelfth Night, some of the best of Christmas. To...