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July 2024

July 03, 2024

Yet I Love Her: History and the Church

Unless your mother was the Mother of God, then she will have had her faults....

July 02, 2024

Vain Repetition

Of all the vanities, the vanity of vain repetition may be the worst. I have...

June 2024

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 14, 2023

Silence and Jollification

Christmas is coming and so we hush in hopeful anticipation. Anticipation right before a big...

June 2023

June 15, 2023

He Thought He was Right: Liberality Must Kiss Righteousness

My great-grandfather was once asked: "Brother Reynolds do you think you are right about everything?"...

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...

February 2022

February 26, 2022

Don’t be Stupid about Putin

My Papaw Earl taught me a great lesson: don't love brown shirts or red shirts....

February 19, 2022

Prayer for a Just Peace in Europe

Things were almost worse. Give thanks for the cold warriors and the American Christians wise...

July 2021

July 04, 2021

Land that I Love: the Glorious Fourth (Part II/II)

If the United States of America is your country, as it is my country, these...

July 03, 2021

Land that I love: The Glorious Fourth (Part I)

Tomorrow in the Church year is the Second Sunday of Saint Matthew, this is most...

July 03, 2021

Getting a Blank Book

The most mysterious book I own is a blank book from my birthday. This remarkable...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

The Decadent: Rejoicing in the Nothing They Have Done (The Tempest)

Do we live in a decadent age? There are bad cultural moments that are not...

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 25, 2021

Making Room for the Baptist Daily

The Baptist came from the wilderness. He did not party. He came crying for righteousness...

June 23, 2021

Knowing the Ancestors: Necessary for Classical Education

Dad posted a picture of both my grandfathers relaxing with friends and I am made...

June 19, 2021

Thank God for the Patriarchy: Dad, His Dad, and all the Dads

1Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. 2The Lord hath...

June 18, 2021

Oh Moth! (The Eagle isn’t Coming to Isengard this Week)

We are not just animals. There is a greater purpose for each of us: a good...

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 16, 2021

A Sick Day, A Good Day

A bit of personal history and a small point: Once, just once, there was a...

June 07, 2021

The Leaders of the Moths (Guest Voice: Eric Holloway)

Often we assume that those who know should decide and in one sense that must...

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 04, 2021

Why Fine Arts? (Guest Voice: Lauren Turner)

Where there is no music, there is no dialectic. Where there is no art, there...

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 31, 2021

Celebrating Memorial Day: God Bless South Korean, Vietnam, and other Cold War Vets

Thank God for the United States that liberated so many people in the Cold War....

May 27, 2021

Not Just Cake: Why Music Matters

Two principles regarding treats: A man can live without cake and cannot live on cake...

May 26, 2021

Singing in the Rain (Guest Voice: Lauren Turner)

Music matters. Music matters too much to leave to the professionals. This thought, more Plato...

May 24, 2021

A Very Odd Way to Get the Key for the Singing, but Sing

Sixty years ago when time to go home from the chemical factory, you needed a...

May 21, 2021

But the Controversy the Controversialist Said!

An old classic rhetorical juke of the heretic, Arius was first master, is to claim...

May 19, 2021

The Evil Blue Light or the Nattering Nabob of Negativity

Never trust the person best known for what he is against. There was, family legend...