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September 2020

September 07, 2020

The My Little Pony Toys Wait: a Problem With Memory and a Speculation

We have a box of "My Little Pony" toys that wait for guests. Two of...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

The Sad Case of a Dated Education? (A Debate)

Dr. Holloway is a working engineer and not a professor, though he admits to professing...

August 27, 2020

Internet Atheists, the last true Victorians

An idea is not false because the idea is old. Think of Socrates and his...

August 25, 2020

Proper Weirdness!

Weirdness can be the sign of eccentric genius or it can be harmless madness. The...

August 24, 2020

God Is Not A Big Us and Other Mistakes Lots of Us Make

We worship God, not a giant "us." God is not made in our image. He...

August 22, 2020

God as the Great Mary Sue?

God is not, in fact, the Great Mary Sue. A "Mary Sue" is an overpowered...

August 21, 2020

Understanding Reality is, indeed, a messy affair.

Reality may not be messy, but human understanding can be. We see partially, misunderstand mostly,...

August 19, 2020

Based on the World Around Me and In Me

Let's live based on the world around and in us. Fantasy, even high fantasy, is...

August 18, 2020

Old Vices Don’t Improve With Age

The new morality is too often the old immorality tricked out in pseudo-scientific language or...

August 12, 2020

Because We Pray: Medicine Matters

Christians know we are all broken. Nobody is perfect and so no human being can...

August 11, 2020

Not Dreaming, Just Hope mixed with Faith seeking Understanding

If Disney is right, then "a wish is a dream your heart makes when you're...

August 09, 2020

The Goodness is Fundamental

We are awash in goodness, truth, and beauty. All we need do is raise our...

August 06, 2020

Satan in the Times

Satan’s existence is suggested by human experience and the Bible and is confirmed by reading...

August 05, 2020

Rich and Poor?

Economists tell us how the economy goes, but God tells us how it should go....

August 02, 2020

Question Everything

Socrates was killed for asking the wrong questions in a city that could not handle...

August 01, 2020

Moral Medicine

Morality uses medicine, but so does immorality. When I was a little boy, I knew...

July 2020

July 29, 2020

Deeds Not Just Words: End Our Discrimination Against God’s Children

Americans too often worry more about what we call people than how we treat them....

July 22, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: A Midnight Cry (Part 7)

Placing Christ over all, seeking Holy Wisdom, is true education. When I advocate such an...

July 21, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Toward an Epistemology of Belief (Part 6)

Since the Enlightenment some have felt that reason is primarily about skepticism. Of course skepticism...

July 20, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: The Place of the Prophetic and Miraculous (Part 5)

Belief in miracles is ubiquitous in the West, but many Christian academics are shamed faced...

July 19, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: The Place of Religious Experience (Part 4)

William James in the Variety of Religious Experience carefully describes the nature, limitations, and importance...

July 18, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Service to God is not just a Matter of the Mind (Part 3)

It should be obvious to all Christians that Pascal was right. We do have to...

July 17, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Moderation in Methods (Part 2)

The twentieth century loved to speak of “revolutions” . . . even in the area...

July 16, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: the Crisis of this Last Age of Man (Part I)

As C.S. Lewis wrote in his prophetic novel That Hideous Strength we are witnessing the...

July 13, 2020

Plato goes on being important. . .and is oft misunderstood.

Rejoice. Smart people have helped us, there are very few new questions. Long ago very...

July 07, 2020

C.S. Lewis and A.E. Taylor: Literature, Philosophy, Plato, and the Story (Part 2/2)

“The story will save us. . .”so Plato ends Republic written when his society was dying....

July 06, 2020

C.S. Lewis and A.E. Taylor: Literature, Philosophy, Plato, and the Story (Part 1/2)

C.S. Lewis was certainly a Christian, but an uncertain Platonist. A comparison to his contemporary...

July 05, 2020

Timeless God (Some Holiday Speculation!)

Any story about Jesus takes place in two times: God’s time and human history. I...

July 04, 2020

The Hopeful Theodicy: God takes on all our pain. . .

When the God-man wept before the tomb of Lazarus, He gave us hope. The God-man...

July 03, 2020

Contend

In the first chapter of Jude, Christians are commanded to contend for the faith. There...