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June 07, 2012

On the Magic Flute

Magic Flute is mad beauty, but so beautiful that beauty is almost enough. The story...

June 05, 2012

And so it goes. . .

And so it goes. If a person or idea dies in Slaughterhouse Five, the Ecclesiastes...

June 03, 2012

Pergamum in Berlin

Go to Turkey and visit Pergamum, on the cities mentioned by Saint John in Revelation,...

June 02, 2012

Love Finds A Way: On the Marriage of Figaro

Bugs Bunny by way of Chuck Jones will be my first thought if you tell...

June 01, 2012

Unrequited Love

"I love you," he said. "Oh no," she said, "I don't feel that way about...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Shutting Up

I will now write about not speaking too much. As a talkative person, I have...

May 29, 2012

War is Evil, but Necessary

Christianity is not a warrior religion, unless a person is God or the Holy Angels....

May 26, 2012

On Graduation

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,...

May 25, 2012

Seventeen Years of Learning Seventeen Things

Today is the last Torrey Honors Institute event over which I will ever preside as...

May 24, 2012

On My Daughter’s Tattoo

Tattoos can be beautiful and they can be ugly. Body art is art: which means...

May 23, 2012

On Being Apollos

The Biblical book of Acts introduces a character named Apollos. He was Jewish, like Paul,...

May 22, 2012

The Five

Residents of Houston tell me they can tell I have long lived in Southern California...

May 21, 2012

On My Wife’s Eyes

My wife has beautiful eyes. Having eliminated most readers fearing a burst of Kinkade in...

May 20, 2012

Lessons from Sons and Daughters

Jesus is a person, not merely an idea. He is also the Divine Word, a...

May 19, 2012

Five Reasons Obama Will Almost Surely Lose

No incumbent is ever hopeless. Herbert Hoover was close, but he still got almost 40...

May 18, 2012

The Other Religious Right

I am from a family so eccentric, I missed the Religious Right frequently denounced. Evidently...

May 17, 2012

Generation Reboot

We are about to enter the generation that did not know Eisenhower. My parent's like...

May 16, 2012

As Owner of the Packers: Resign Driver

This year for Christmas I received stock in the Green Bay Packers. I am now...

May 15, 2012

We are DOOMED!

Rome was not built in a day and it did not fall in a day...

May 14, 2012

Bad People Laugh Too Much in Movies

It is a truth too little acknowledged that movie villains laugh too much. In reality,...

May 14, 2012

A Few Needs

Times being what they always are: times are hard. Christians are not discouraged for the...

May 13, 2012

Lessons From My Mother

My mother is one of the wisest women I know. Many people will say that...

May 11, 2012

Die as You Live

I could remember him from pictures of his Oxford days. My favorite shows him punting...

May 10, 2012

I Foretell the Future: Report at the 1/3 Mark

At the start of year I made ten predictions. Here they are with how I...

May 08, 2012

On Race: Progress is Not Enough- Agitate

I can’t prove it was racism, but it looked like it. While getting my shoes...

May 07, 2012

Avengers: Soulless Fun

Avengers is a great comic book movie, but nothing more. That is no insult from...

May 04, 2012

On Star Wars Day

On Star Wars Day As you gather around your Life Tree and watch the Star...

May 03, 2012

On Self Esteem

On Self-Esteem It is commonplace to think that this generation has too much self-esteem and...