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June 30, 2024

The Iceberg is There: Verbosity Cannot Defeat Reality

Reality opposed smashes the soul. The credentialed pass the ship as safe, after all, the...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

One Weeping Icon at Christmas is Enough

I saw an icon weep. I did. I can use a search engine and so...

June 2023

June 14, 2023

The Power of Dissenting Societies: A Thought

Live joyfully. If we live by love, then we can build something good, true, and...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

Gandalf, Magic, and Miracles

"You shall not pass." So says a college professor at this time of the term....

March 2022

March 08, 2022

The Supreme Beauty of Truth and Christianity

To see correctly, even for a moment, is splendid. As a child, I was so...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

Peter and Paul and Difficult Questions

Paul and Peter are often portrayed together: two apostles with contrasting, but not conflicting messages....

June 27, 2021

Total Opportunity: Apply Today

Have hope. There is a possibility of glorification if we wish. This is not, naturally,...

June 26, 2021

Understanding the Beloved (Language and Evidence)

If I had known Hope better, I would have been less, hopeful, about our first...

June 24, 2021

Fiery God Making and Manifesting Glory

When God became a human being, a real man named Jesus, we gained a way...

June 17, 2021

Our Scientific Salvation Will Be The Death Of Us (Guest Voice: Eric Holloway)

Will we trust "the science" (meaning the scientists) to the point of madness? Dr. Eric...

June 06, 2021

Two Dead Rats in a Trap

I once decided that our future prosperity could be secured by purchasing Southern California real...

June 01, 2021

The Ancient Discovery of Common Theology to Save Our World (Guest Voice: Dr. Eric Holloway)

What if we turned from academic theology to “common theology?” Would we find intriguing ideas...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

Likely Wrong: Biblical Egalitarianism Regarding Some Religious Roles is Implausible

Sometimes the angels are not in the details, but the general structure. Advocacy scholarship can...

May 23, 2021

Rejected Love?

The cosmos is built on Divine Love. The difficulty, of course, is that once one...

May 06, 2021

Beware the Iconoclast: Icons are not Competency Tests

Hating ancient icons, deep truths, ends in ugly idols. Jingoism is the idol that mocks...

May 03, 2021

The Absolute Necessity of Jollification Today: Party Better

The good God commands jollification. The world, the flesh, and devils resist a genuine good...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

The Bridegroom and the Bride: the making of a Father and a Mother (Passion for Pascha!)

Easter, Pascha, makes our life normal. Death is defeated by life. We are given a...

April 13, 2021

Horrible Idea: On “On Critical Race Theory”

There is a horrible idea regarding "critical race theory." This bad idea has nothing to do...

April 09, 2021

Love Unites: Find What You are For (A Reflection from The Greek Bicentennial)

Love endures, perfect love casts out all fear. Since the Kingdom is motivated by love,...

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 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 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 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 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 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 09, 2021

On Genuine Morality Without God?

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

March 06, 2021

On Being Good at the Doorway

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