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October 2018

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 25, 2018

A Certain Luminosity: Hanson and String Theory

MMMBop. If you know it, as some of my colleagues do, then you are younger...

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 21, 2018

Throwing Pie at the President

Traditions, especially weird traditions, and college programs go together. I have been told there is...

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...

October 15, 2018

Ancient Legends (Timaeus)

A story like Atlantis is not historical, more like the Lord of the Rings than the...

October 14, 2018

The Story: Every Word Is True (Timaeus)

History matters. There is a central importance to what happened, because what is now is...

October 10, 2018

Disrupt the Culture! (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 7/8)

Culture is harder to create than destroy, just as books are easier to review than...

October 09, 2018

Disruptive Church (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 6/8)

I go to a Church that tweaks the liturgy every few centuries, whether it needs...

October 05, 2018

Visions of Truth (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 4/8)

Times are tough for everyone, but what if: Our faith has the resources to overcome...

October 02, 2018

Distracting ourselves to tedium (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 1/8)

A good teacher begins class with a great question, one that makes us think and...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

She Was Equal to the Apostles: Nina, Know Hope

Her legacy is a country and her message is the Cross: Blessed Nina (or Nino)...

September 26, 2018

More Tech Than the Enterprise . . .

Captain Kirk could go to planets, I envy that, but the computing power in my...

September 25, 2018

In-N-Out Comes to Houston: Should I be Happy?

In-N-Out is coming to the American City of the Twenty-First Century: Houston. One the last...

September 23, 2018

Did Jesus Go To England? An Attack on Classicism by a Classicist (William Blake and Longing)

William Blake, half mad half damned, wrote beauty that lifted his soul from Hell to...

September 22, 2018

Autumn (William Blake)

William Blake was, perhaps, more than a bit mad, but he knew beauty. He lived...

September 20, 2018

Five General (and Useful!) Truths Learned in Grad School: Here for Free!

Grad School: Fear Not! I had a lot to learn when I went to graduate...

September 18, 2018

E-Books, Excellent, but Why Paper Still Has More Uses

Some Tech is a Limited Good Reruns were once a thing. In an age when...

September 17, 2018

How We Need Kindness Just Now Even Without Plato (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 12/12)

Everyone God knows we need some kindness not...

September 12, 2018

On the Road with Hope (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 7/12)

Gentlereader, I married Hope. As a result, I end up writing about hope (the virtue)...

September 10, 2018

Courage, Jim, and Huck (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 5/12)

The best professors make you see in a new way, consider again old opinions you...

September 09, 2018

The Just City (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 4/12)

Justice with Mercy When I was a boy I saw a slogan that stuck with...

September 07, 2018

The Prudence in Tom Jones (Interactive Reading of Karen Swallow Prior 2/12)

Read. Read well. Karen Swallow Prior (KSP) will help you do both. I am reading...

September 04, 2018

Our Heroes Should Have Included a Cow Doctor (Theobald Smith)

Growing Up Loving Cowboys When I met my first real cowboy at age five, I was...

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...

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 29, 2018

A lesson from Homer: Thus they tended the funeral of John McCain

The late John McCain had a father and grandfather who both became admirals in the...

August 28, 2018

Inherited Friends: Find them!

We can inherit height, eye color, and some propensities from our ancestors, but we might...

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...