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January 2015

January 22, 2015

Aaron Rodger’s Right. . . and Wrong: How God Cares about the Packer Loss

My Super Bowl party was set. Fourth quarter and my Packers (hey, I am an...

January 21, 2015

Mentoring: How Small Schools Can Be Better than Big Ones

Faculty matter. Other issues matter, but nothing counts more than faculty if we are discussing...

January 20, 2015

Getting It Helps Cure It: Vanauken and “A Severe Mercy”

Sin is all around and if it doesn't make the world go round it does...

January 19, 2015

Getting the Big Thing Right: MLK on His Day

There is no sense pretending Rev. Dr. King and I would have agreed on everything...

January 17, 2015

In Which I Try to Be Prudent, But May Fail

Hunter Baker is a good man, a thoughtful man, a Christian, and is convinced that...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

The Thin Blue Line and Death in America

Too many African-American young people are arrested in the United States. Too many African-American young...

November 13, 2014

Moderation and Meekness: Just What We Need

Christians need leaders who are moderate and meek. Saying that sounds like advocacy for impotence,...

November 12, 2014

Beware Becoming the Music Man: Reflections on a Weekend Reading Ion

We don't have to be told that there is trouble in the United States: we...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

The Best Of Times

Nobody needs me to list reasons for worry. I am worried about the state of...

October 22, 2014

Three Simple Truths about Education

This week will mark the 31st year of teaching and here are three simple truths:...

October 15, 2014

Petty Tyrants in a Tyrannical Age: Annise Parker

Annise Parker is not the biggest problem my Church faces. So help us God, what...

October 13, 2014

Gratitude: An Intellectual History (A Live Reading Part IV)

Gratitude: An Intellectual History is a book on an important topic that pays a careful reading....

October 06, 2014

Gratitude: An Intellectual History (A Live Reading Part III)

Gratitude: An Intellectual History is an intellectual feast that gives you choices: you can consume the...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Gratitude: An Intellectual History (A Live Reading Part II)

Gratitude: An Intellectual History is a very good book (thus far) written by an interesting intellectual....

September 13, 2014

Gratitude: An Intellectual History (A Live Reading Part I)

When the publisher sent me Gratitude: An Intellectual History, I felt sure this would be a...

September 04, 2014

Fantasy Football, Thucydides, and Me

I love fantasy football even though it can never love me; not being a person...

September 03, 2014

Happiness: My Goal

Being sad, even depressed is in the news, but whether we know it or not...

September 02, 2014

Jesus, Educator: A Higher Education, Part (IV/IV)

I have been told by marketing friends that in the United States only Abraham Lincoln...

September 01, 2014

On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Higher Education (III/IV)

If you do not know Jesus, you will not go to Heaven when you die,...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Don’t Just Be Nice: A Higher Education (II/IV)

As the bill for school comes due, many of us ask: “Why pay for higher...

August 30, 2014

A Higher Education (I/IV)

Students return, professors are prepared, staff is ready: education continues. I love this time of...

August 28, 2014

While We Sleep: The Guns of August

When one of my children is sick, nothing else matters to me. The world and...

August 27, 2014

Nothing Comes from Nothing

Maria was not a Problem. Maria was right. Sound of Music is not the source of...

August 18, 2014

Seven Conservative Truths Confirmed By Ferguson

Ferguson confirms many hard truths about the United States. We have a race problem and...

August 18, 2014

Weep for the Dead

Ferguson could only happen in the United States of America. Start with the original American...

August 13, 2014

The Guns of August

My least favorite picture from the First World War era shows the start of the...

August 12, 2014

Lessons in Leadership (I): Steve Jobs

I am reading books on leadership with a group of friends at HBU and we...

August 05, 2014

For Joy’s Sake

Christians should never be motivated by hate and ideally do nothing we do not wish...

July 2014

July 01, 2014

On Minority Status in Sexual Ethics

Christians are a minority in the United States when it comes to sexual ethics in...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Hobby Lobby: Why Traditionalist Will Win Long Term

A prediction: If the Hobby Lobby case decided by the Supreme Court stands, then long-term...