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December 2016

December 01, 2016

Communism: Always Evil, Defenders, Decent Dupes

We can hate ideas, but we cannot hate people. At the same time, we can think about...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Exegesis of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” or Why Santa is a Spelling Error for Satan

If you have never sent a text to the Boss and had autocorrect change a...

November 29, 2016

Praying for Mr. Trump (After Eight Years of Praying for Mr. Obama): Five Requests

Recently I marked a change in my daily prayers: I began to pray for the...

November 28, 2016

Advent: Between Thanksgiving and Christmas

Let's celebrate the coming of Jesus, but not quite yet! We are "between" in the...

November 27, 2016

Mozart and a Quiet Moment Without a Moment of Drowsiness

Listening to Mozart live is one of the few musical experiences where I am made...

November 27, 2016

The Glass Bauble Was Beautiful . . . God, so Beautiful

We put up the Christmas tree today and the entire time was lovely. We went...

November 25, 2016

Born to Free: Advent is Coming

Everyone is born to be free, but soon finds themselves in chains. This is not...

November 24, 2016

Thanks Lewis: on Miniature London

We finished it. Every year we work hard to create a Dickens' Village worthy of...

November 23, 2016

Find One Moment of Beauty

Sufficient is more than enough, but a culture built on consumption cannot stop. There are...

November 22, 2016

In Which I Suggest Five Topics for Thanksgiving Dinner

If religion and politics were off the table, then we would not be able to...

November 21, 2016

Thanksgiving Dinner and Your Never Trump-Clinton Relative

We stood at Armageddon and we could not find the Lord. Five percent of the...

November 20, 2016

Love Your Enemies: Thanksgiving for “Those People”

Thanking God for our blessings is easy and we do not do that enough! Thanking...

November 19, 2016

10 Nice Things About Donald J. Trump

President-Elect Donald Trump, like President Obama before him, is not President by my vote. Of...

November 18, 2016

What were they going to do, kill me?

My Papaw Earl was a brave man. He once earned a coin by climbing to...

November 17, 2016

I was guilty by association.

When I was in seventh grade at a school I shall protect, I was not...

November 16, 2016

What could go wrong?

Nothing compares to the Third Reich. Nothing. Nobody in American politics is Hitler: not President...

November 15, 2016

Don’t Beware the Super Moon

Tonight my family was having fun filming the Super Moon. You can see our (20161115_011546000_iOS)...

November 14, 2016

Says the student: “I am Charlemagne.”

Today a first grader at The Saint Constantine School learned about Charlemagne. In a burst...

November 13, 2016

Love not Passion

There is so much I want that I cannot have. What is to be done?...

November 12, 2016

Become Fully Human: A Film on the “Nones” and Christianity

To paraphrase Terry Mattingly: the film is the novel of the 21st century. And if...

November 11, 2016

We Are Living In World War I Today

Veterans' Day is the day World War I "ended." The eleventh hour of the eleventh...

November 10, 2016

On Elections: A Letter from My DOD (Dear Old Dad)

Dear John Mark: Our household has mixed feelings this morning. We are glad that HRC...

November 09, 2016

Wonderful to be An American in 2016: 10 Good Things

The United States of America is, taken as she is with all her faults, a...

November 08, 2016

Five Things to Watch on Election Day

Here are five things to watch today that will tell you about the next four...

November 07, 2016

A Good Pastor: Three Ways to Spot One (And A Clue to Any Good Leader)

Over the weekend our pastor, Father Richard, was honored for his work and character. His...

November 06, 2016

A Hearty Cheer for Paganism!

We can learn from Athens, but Athens would be wise to pause and realize that...

November 05, 2016

Recovering Part of a Discarded Image

CS Lewis wrote an outstanding introduction to Medieval thought in The Discarded Image. Perhaps we should...

November 04, 2016

Cubs win! (We should all be thankful for Chicago)

My birthplace was just outside of Chicago, a fact for which I have always felt...

November 03, 2016

Hope: Mostly It Is A Cheat, Except When It Isn’t (See Jesus)

The pagan Greeks were wise. They knew that life was tough and then you die....

November 02, 2016

Avoid Fraud School, Find the School of Wisdom: Theages and Education

About now colleges start begging for attention as the business of higher education cranks up....