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May 2018

May 21, 2018

Looking for a Christian Emperor

Constantine the Great, like Plato, manages to make enemies on the atheist and religious fringe....

May 19, 2018

Should “Progressive” “Christians” Appropriate Traditional Language?

If you have a wedding, nothing is worse than the vows you wrote yourself, at...

May 17, 2018

Hard to Agree

An odd thing about our times: it is hard to agree with authority, at least...

May 16, 2018

Merciful Romance

”She,” a friend noted, “is going out with you out of pity.” This was fine....

May 15, 2018

Do Not Be Conformed (Applying MLK Today!)

“Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to...

May 14, 2018

MLK: Tough Mind and Tender Heart

To do theology well is to pray well. Praying requires a “tough mind and a...

May 10, 2018

Speaking, Writing, Talking About Any Holiday: the Doom that Cannot be Avoided

Mother’s Day. Father’s Day. Christmas. I am tempted to dodge writing about holidays just now,...

May 08, 2018

The Lost Joy of Learning

Dorothy Sayers rightly mourned The Lost Tools of Learning and I share her sorrow. Fortunately...

May 04, 2018

Stability in a Leadership Team

Let us praise continuity and the leaders that provide it! In the marvelous television show...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Musing about Amusing or Comics and Conservatives: Where are they?

If over forty percent of Americans support the President*, why wouldn’t we anticipate a large...

April 21, 2018

What I Saw and Heard at Trump Tower

This is not about the President, but about what I saw and heard when part...

April 16, 2018

Don’t Be John Wilkes Booth

He was handsome and committed to his...

April 14, 2018

The Christian Case Against the Christian Case for the Strikes on Syria

There is nothing worse than reading a wretched argument from someone who...

April 13, 2018

The Syrian Attack Remains Unethical: Here is Why

I Christians prefer peace to war. We do not rush to war as the first solution...

April 12, 2018

On Racism and Communal “Guilt”

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

April 06, 2018

Many Kinds of Work: Hands and Head (Things I learn in Church)

Growing up, Dad would talk to my brother Daniel and me as we walked home...

April 03, 2018

Hard Not to Love, Impossible to Simply Love: the Difficult Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut

This year I teach some Lincoln, Douglass, and Booker T. Washington: heroes, even if flawed,...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

Watching Three Billboards with Karen Swallow Prior (with Flannery O’Connor and Buffy the Vampire Slayer!)

Some people are so interesting that anything is better if they are there to talk...

March 23, 2018

The Devil, the Good Music, and Race: on the Greg Thornbury Book

The new biography about rock musician Larry Norman by Greg Thornbury is an important text...

March 22, 2018

The Devil Never Had All the Good Music: A Review of Thornbury’s Larry Norman Bio

Chancellor Greg Thornbury at The King’s College (NYC) has written a biography of the Jesus...

March 20, 2018

On Making a Slave and Screen Choices

You cannot make a man a slave only enslave him, but what if you can...

March 18, 2018

Three Billboards and Some Orange Juice

The movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri tried too hard to be Best Picture. As a...

March 16, 2018

Rhetoric’s Role: Gregory, Augustine, Boethius

Spin, the art of making a bad case seem better, is bad for our republic....

March 11, 2018

Can you ask God to leave?

We once told our son we were praying while at Disneyland. Our little boy pointed...

March 07, 2018

Decree Justice

Here is a statement from God’s messenger: Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and...

March 05, 2018

Invisible Men: the Immortal Genius of Ralph Ellison

Read Invisible Man. Not the HG Wells sort-of-good book, but the work of an authentic...

March 04, 2018

The Argument (Like Learning) Continues

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a human in possession of a good education...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

The Need for “The Elders” (a poem by Mari Evans)

The great victory of the Civil Rights movement was not given to the African American...

February 25, 2018

Icons or Idols

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

February 25, 2018

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Read as Young and an Older Man

Malcom X never grew as old as I am now. Instead, he was gunned down...