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January 2020

January 23, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (4/7)

Listen, then read the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Do so in parallel with...

January 22, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “Unfulfilled Dreams” – Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (3/7)

Listen to the sermon. Listen to the people interacting with the preacher, changing the sermon...

January 21, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (2/7)

The African American Church had the experience and intellectual resources to produce and deal with...

January 17, 2020

If you are not against me. . . (With a Digression on Timeshares)

“If you don’t buy this timeshare now,” he said to us, “then you will regret...

January 13, 2020

On Animal Suffering: A Response to a Thoughtful Critic

Animal suffering has always bothered me and cruelty to animals was viewed as a barbaric,...

December 2019

December 22, 2019

The Haunted Man (Dickens and Christmas) Part I

Dickens’ last Christmas story, The Haunted Man, is inferior to A Christmas Carol and the story most popular...

December 21, 2019

Getting the Color of the Vestments Right: What Losers Do in Bad Times

Heretics in the Right Colors Father Michael smiled as I told him the news. His...

December 20, 2019

Star Wars IX: A Review and Philosophical Reflections

(In reviewing and discussing this film, I will try to avoid large spoilers to IX....

December 16, 2019

If Ignorance Were Bliss: then Dawkins Would Be Happy Much of the Time

From Richard Dawkins’ Twitter feed: Surprised by common reverence for Plato. Alexandrians like Eratosthenes made...

December 14, 2019

To Fight is Noble

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport that the world affords. Most excellent...

December 13, 2019

To Dream is Hopeful, to Do Divine

God never dreams, He is all do. Humans, created in God’s image, begin in hope, grow...

December 09, 2019

Complaining about 10-3: ‘Ware This, but Even More Beware This Leader

Packer fans can be demanding. If you do not care about sports, wait a bit,...

December 08, 2019

The Day After Devastation: After Pearl Harbor Kind of Day

Sometimes bad news seems to sneak up on you. On December 7th, 1941, a day...

December 05, 2019

On Having a Conversation with Papaw

“I built that house.” The yellow cottage sat in some bottom land between the hills,...

December 04, 2019

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep . . .

Sleep, hard to achieve the older I get, is a great blessing. When I cannot...

December 03, 2019

Cranky to the Wrong People, With TIPS for better Complaining!

“What do you people think,” the customer put an emphasis on “think” in a way...

December 02, 2019

The Deplorable Mr. and Mrs. Wilson

Some things look solid, but are full of air: think paper mache stuff. President Woodrow...

December 01, 2019

On the Hero Versus the King or God

Why can I adore Arthur, but root for Belvedere? As a child I wanted Arthur...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

The Joy of Shopping is (or can be) the Joy of Giving

The person I knew most consumed with money and material things was an ideologue who...

November 27, 2019

On a History of Problems and Culture Wars

“History” is not one story, but the stories of every human being who has ever...

November 26, 2019

An Insufferable Guide to Dealing with the Insufferable at Thanksgiving

Insufferable calls to insufferable and so the Holiday survival guide is born. Somewhere a liberal...

November 23, 2019

A Eulogy for Phillip E. Johnson

This is taken from part of what I said at the memorial service for Phillip...

November 19, 2019

Avoiding Mr. Collins: Help us Jane, You are One of Our Few Hopes!

Grasping for good things, can make us a bad thing. Imagine a church leader currying political...

November 13, 2019

What Does Your Taste Say About You? (Guest Voice: Christina George)

I asked for new voices and have received some wonderful writing. Here is another piece...

November 01, 2019

On All Being Well (Some Shakespeare)

We do not, of course, always know what is good for us. Our choices tend...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

All Saints (From the Play “Conquer” on Saint Elizabeth, New Martyr)

I am writing a cycle of plays for each House of The College at Saint...

October 29, 2019

Miss Davis or Having a Big Impact Merely By Being Nice and Kind

This Halloween I began to think of Miss Davis our neighbor and miss her mightily....

October 28, 2019

In Mild Praise of Professional Sports Fandom (A Summation)

Just this Weekend: Fandom is Fun Just this weekend my adult children (including a son-in-law),...

October 27, 2019

In Praise of Woggabaliri (The Sports Fandom DIscussion Continues)

Are professional sports good for a community or for us? I think so, maybe. A...

October 25, 2019

How to End up at Castle Dracula

A vampire sucks the blood of the living, but only to stay undead: the perfect...