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June 2019

June 12, 2019

The Five Worst “Arguments” (or Claims) Made by Internet Atheists

Atheists or at least non-theists have been invaluable mentors and friends. Philosophy and many other...

June 10, 2019

Be Wary Of Learning Many Things (Heraclitus!)

Wisdom cannot be Googled. As a kid growing up, I did not have Google, but...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

The (Nearly) Boundless Soul (Heraclitus)

232 You would not find out the boundaries of soul, even by travelling along every...

May 30, 2019

The Monotheistic Turn Toward Philosophy and Science: Against Polytheism and Atheism (Heraclitus)

250 Those who speak with sense must rely on what is common to all, as...

May 23, 2019

The Character Is the Thing (Heraclitus)

“The Devil made me do it.” A cheeky television catchphrase from my boyhood begged indulgence,...

May 21, 2019

Many gods, One God: Zeus Found (Heraclitus)

The soil under my feet was yellow dirt with small rocks and the sky above...

May 06, 2019

Not Seeing, but Believing: Saint Thomas (not Epistemology, but not bad Epistemology Either)

Yesterday was the Sunday of Saint Thomas: the disciple whose account ends any thought that...

April 2019

April 29, 2019

Sin and the Odd Christianity of Arthur Machen (Maybe Charles Williams!) Or the Age of Anti-Christ?

There is a line of lazily written greeting cards that begin with the Socratic “What...

April 18, 2019

Lost and Found: To See the Face of God in the Person of Jesus Christ (Dante Paradise XXXIII)

Lost and Found Once one of our children decided to stay at Disneyland, when we...

April 10, 2019

The Way Forward: Arguments, Commitment, then You See

Some disagreements can be settled by science. What is the chemical composition of this cookie?...

April 07, 2019

Even If Devils Exist, a Certain Kind of Skeptic Should Not Believe in Them

If devils exist exactly as the New Testament describes them, they cannot serve as evidence...

March 2019

March 25, 2019

In the Light of Eternity: Pain and Restitution

Nothing makes our bad choices, our rejection of love, good. A bad choice goes on...

March 18, 2019

Video Games as Scientism’s Totem (Guest Post by Dr. Eric Holloway)

In the movie Inception, the characters are able to enter into the dreams of other...

March 11, 2019

Stephen Law’s Evil God Challenge (A Guest Post By John Lepp)

I went looking for different voices. Some I agree with, some not so much. All...

March 04, 2019

Those Illiterates!

On Literacy I am just old enough to have met men, and they were mostly...

January 2019

January 17, 2019

A Beauty So Piercing

Oedipus knew the truth and gouged out his eyes. I understand this tendency. “Know...

January 16, 2019

Ignore Anyone Who Ignores Early Bible Translations

Did you know that there are Aramaic translations of the New Testament from the fifth century? This...

January 08, 2019

Plato, Christianity, and Keeping a Republic

In the center of God’s educational program for humanity were the Jewish people. For centuries...

January 07, 2019

A New Journal for Constantinean Techies

A teacher often has students who surpass him. Hurrah! One who writes here on occasion...

November 2018

November 01, 2018

The Coming Party with the Once Dead: the Party of All Saints

Someday, if we choose to do so, we can party with the once dead. And...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

As Long as You Are What You Are

We sat talking, a mountain rising over us and a green valley beneath us. The...

October 28, 2018

A Very Bad Way to Understand Texts or An Error I Made So You Do Not Have to Do So

Plato wrote a great many books and we are blessed with all of them. You...

October 26, 2018

Convenient Faith is Convenient but isn’t Faith

“Never,” Mom said, “believe a thing, because you wish it to be true.” She brought...

October 24, 2018

Heavenly Music (Timaeus)

Get Truth Where You Can Get truth where you can. Some useful ideas comes to...

October 23, 2018

On Contradictions in a Literary Collection (Biblical and Otherwise)

There is a species of literary juvenalia that goes looking for contradictions in great books...

October 22, 2018

The Likely Story: Science and Explanation (Timaeus)

The truth is out there, but knowing the truth requires work. That is the delightful...

October 19, 2018

What caused God? (An Error Explained)

Good Advice from a Good Professor Don’t reject an argument nobody is making. This good...

October 18, 2018

The Chosen One Or How To Tell If it is YOU That Will Save Us All (Timaeus)

“It’s bad luck to be you,” so said a video game on the game death...

October 16, 2018

An Artificial Controversy (A Guest Post by Dr. Eric Holloway)

I am (on occasion) asked about design and ideas surrounding design. Some questions are in...

September 2018

September 02, 2018

Curmudgeon or Critic? (Mild Praise for Heraclitus)

Sometimes the kids do need to get off the grass, but after a certain age...