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August 2018

August 30, 2018

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Philosophy

The sixteen and seventeenth century in the West took a splendid opportunity left them by...

August 27, 2018

The Better Road Not Taken (The Failures of the Seventeenth Century)

1616 came and Shakespeare and Cervantes died, but Bacon kept writing his way to a...

August 20, 2018

The Birth of God: Having a Theogony

If God exists, then He has no beginning and no end by definition. God exists,...

August 11, 2018

Wisdom, She Cries Out: No Slack Given in the Argument (Summer in the Republic 64)

If you love wisdom, then you pray for mercy from God, because wisdom is unrelenting....

August 03, 2018

Doubt, of a sort, is Wonderful, Get Some (Summer in the Republic 56)

In some parts of American Christianity there is a weird belief that all forms of...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Dry Salvages: Plato, T.S. Eliot, A.E.Taylor Went to a Bar. . (Summer in the Republic 53)

Read enough great books and you see connections. . . Plato, T.S. Eliot, and A.E....

June 2018

June 30, 2018

“Justice is for the Strong Only” (Summer in the Republic 25!)

“Winning is it’s own justification,” say many about to commit a monstrous act. For a...

June 29, 2018

Shattered with Hope: Gina Pastore

Picking Up My Shattered Pieces is the book you should take with you on vacation this...

June 25, 2018

Bellowing is not Good (Summer in the Republic 21)

Don’t bellow. Do discuss, argue, be passionate. Unleash bellowing and you have let slip the...

June 06, 2018

Rene and Georgette Magritte and I miss Warren Throckmorton

I love the song Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog after the War. Two...

June 04, 2018

Papaw and the Atheist

Doing Right is Winning Winning does not mean getting rich or famous because good, true,...

May 2018

May 25, 2018

Behold the Were-Possum! (Or How Explanations Can Be Unexpected)

Skepticism is a good tool in any thinking person’s toolbox. Anybody selling anything deserves a...

May 23, 2018

Proper Evidence and a Definition of Faith

Faith and Proper Evidence* What does a Christian mean when he says he takes an...

April 2018

April 20, 2018

The Problem of Pitiable Pain

The Agony of the Delayed Flight I think the person in despair, because of our...

April 12, 2018

On Racism and Communal “Guilt”

We cannot be sorry for a thing we have not done, yet we might have...

April 09, 2018

The Perfect Can Be the Enemy of the Good: On Race (A Small Point)

Whenever I say something about race or racism, certain good hearted friends suggest that the...

March 2018

March 12, 2018

Timeless Providence

Boethius was a good man, but a tyrant was about to kill him. This is...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

Icons or Idols

Today his family and community will begin the process of burying Billy Graham and will...

February 19, 2018

Heretics: The Many Adventures of a Free Thinking Scientist

Heretics: One Scientist's Journey from Darwin to Design* is the story of a bioengineer in Finland...

December 2017

December 23, 2017

Joyful Doubt at Christmas

Rejoice! One great good of Christmas is doubt that leads to wondering. At the end of...

December 18, 2017

Wise People Still Can Lose Their Heads: the Prudence of Christmas and Hope of Christmas

Our floors at Saint Anne's are hard on ornaments and recently a wise man was...

October 2017

October 10, 2017

ET and Jesus: A Dialog with Adeimantus

The cosmos is huge and divine Revelation tells us what we need to know for...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

Easier to Kill Ice Giants

Recently I got a LOL from a reader who said: Odin came to earth to defeat...

September 24, 2017

Disagree to Agree: the State of Christendom

Jesus Christ was, is, and is to come as King. This is good news, because...

September 23, 2017

Punching the Divine?

"Judge not that you be not judged!" Talk to any American and this is the...

September 22, 2017

God, Angels, Bunnies, and Me

Bunnies (and the other animals!) exist and the good news is that they do not...

September 20, 2017

Unlocking Civ City: Amazing Bible Revelation and the Work to Be Done

God created a good world and put humankind it that world to explore, play, and...

September 16, 2017

Darwin, Being a Christian, and Evolution

If Darwin was right, then let us follow him, but surely we can ask if...

September 15, 2017

Talking Snakes! LOOK! Talking Snakes!

Strange things happen all the time, but reality makes some people crazy. They are afraid of...

September 14, 2017

Probably Adam, But Waiting on the Evidence

Adam exists, probably. He surely exists as an image, an icon of our failures, and our need...