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March 2019

March 08, 2019

King of the Golden River (Ruskin/Rackham)

Imagine creating a fairy tale. Early published folk tales, lumped together as fairy tales, were...

March 06, 2019

The Strange World of Elbert Hubbard’s Scrapbook

Socialism may have never been tried, having been tried often, just not properly, with bad...

March 05, 2019

Joan was Triumphant!

Hero. Servant of the Savior, so the savior of France: Joan. Here in the play...

March 04, 2019

Those Illiterates!

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

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Loss of Focus Harms Everything in the End

Does theological liberalism kill everything it touches pulling it into a theological captivity to secularism?...

February 27, 2019

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (James H. Cone)

The cross and the lynching tree are separated by nearly 2,000 years. Professor James H....

February 25, 2019

The Muse’s Favor (Let All Who Can Sing. . . Sing!) Priscilla Jane Thompson

When we limit beauty, we limit our ability to flourish as humans. A glory of...

February 22, 2019

Beloved (A Quibble about a Masterpiece by Toni Morrison)

People trained to know tell me Beloved by Toni Morrison is a classic. When creating...

February 20, 2019

Learning from Anthony Bradley While Reading His Liberating Black Theology

Anthony Bradley should be read. If he wrote it, read it. He is an unpredictable...

February 19, 2019

Learning from Marcus Garvey

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself...

February 18, 2019

Barracoon and What Interests Us OR Hurston and History

History refuses to fit any simple minded ideological storage boxes: people neatly separated into heroes,...

February 17, 2019

The Limits of Education OR Ph.D. OR Langston Hughes and CS Lewis Agree?

Ph.D. He never was a silly little boy Who whispered in the class or...

February 16, 2019

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)

To have a life to live, joy to share, only to be stifled by injustice,...

February 15, 2019

Grandpa’s Stories (Papaw!) OR Langston Hughes Reminds Me of the Best Stories

Grandpa’s Stories (Langston Hughes) The pictures on the television Do not make me dream as...

February 14, 2019

A January Dandelion, In February (George Marion McClellan)

Love is a great god or so the ancients claimed. Yet Plato and all our experiences...

February 13, 2019

An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)

Any married American will find much of the book familiar, moving. This is an author...

February 12, 2019

Reading, So Vital, God’s Own Gift (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper)

I am convinced if more people read well many of our disagreements would vanish. We...

February 09, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- The Bible (Charles Octavius Boothe 7/9)

Read The Bible and slavery will die out: it is an abolitionist book. Race based...

February 08, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- How Christians Should Live and Labor (Charles Octavius Boothe 6/9)

Charles Octavius Boothe lived at a moment in American history where living as a Christian...

February 06, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- The Son: His Coming And His Work (Charles Octavius Boothe 4/9)

Jesus. Jesus is Christianity or at least the reason for Christianity, even the broken bits....

February 05, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People: The Way of Salvation (Charles Octavius Boothe 3/9)

We know too little about the makers of the American mind, particularly in religion. Our...

February 03, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People: Being and Character of God (Charles Octavius Boothe 1/9)

Specialists develop professional language to shorten conversations with each other and to achieve precision in...

February 02, 2019

The Hindered Hand (Sutton Griggs)

Thomas Dixon wrote a series of racist books so terrible Woodrow Wilson liked them and...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

The Bioshock Trilogy: Five Reasons It is Better than Many Movies and Books

The Bioshock series of games are better entertainment than most movies and more thoughtful than...

January 29, 2019

Pathos at Patheos, Or the Dangerous Value of the Pathetic

Thus died Clotel, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, a president of the United States; a...

January 27, 2019

Heart Appeals in a Good Cause: Heart and Head Together

We should act reasonably driven by love. To do something that is unreasonable ignores wisdom...

January 26, 2019

If a project is positively Medieval . . . REJOICE!

We need more projects that are positively Medieval. If that shocks you, stop being a...

January 14, 2019

You Can Go Home Again

"You can’t go home again.” This is wrong. Great literature, whether picturing the hero Odysseus...

January 12, 2019

Three Benefits of Reading the Bible Through Each Year

Some great books I read and reread. Wisdom, insight, and sheer beauty come with care....

January 11, 2019

The Next Step in Education or Beyond Authorial Intent: A Pause for a Fine Phrase (James A. Emanuel)

Writing every day impresses on me how hard finding just the right word, phrase, or...