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February 2018

February 23, 2018

The Danger of Focusing on Technology (Guest Post)

This is a post from a former student responding to something I wrote about the...

February 15, 2018

Gregory of Nazianzus and the Serious Business of Education

Thinking well is hard work, and easy answers from quick Google searches can cause us...

February 14, 2018

Friendship of February 14

Friendship is romantic. In many cultures, the bond between friends was more celebrated than any...

February 13, 2018

Educating the Heart (A Thought from Pride and Prejudice)

Jane Austen is the teacher we need, the thinker we ignore at our peril. God...

February 07, 2018

Cheerful Constantine

Let’s build a better alternative within our cities in great good cheerfulness. That is the...

February 06, 2018

Pastor, Patriot, Poet: Lemuel Haynes

If he was a minuteman, a Patriot when the cause was high risk, then you...

February 04, 2018

Dem Days Was Hell: Recorded Testimonies of Former Slaves in the United States

Race based slavery built the United States. Northern states made money on the slave trade....

February 03, 2018

“The Post” and Our Times

Big business papers like The Post will go all first-amendment when their favored team is...

February 02, 2018

Hospitality, Gardening, and Poetry: Be Anne Spencer

A few of us are called to be Jeremiah, but most of us cannot live...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Jenny Lind and The Greatest Showman on Earth

If at every moment during The Greatest Showman, one forgets the actual P.T. Barnum, then the...

January 28, 2018

Learning to Fight Racist Education: Dialog with the Work of Carter Woodson

Carter G. Woodson demonstrated that racists kept African-Americans in a subservient state after Empancipation by...

January 26, 2018

Myths, Equality, the State, and Society

Here is a sad fact: I am much slower than I was when I was...

January 23, 2018

I cannot stop listening. . .

Many students use Plato’s ideas without realizing they are doing so. As a result, we...

January 21, 2018

Nothing Could Be Worse than this Fat, Weak, Tyrant

Nothing could be worse than a fat tyrant, widely viewed as mentally incompetent, weak, and...

January 11, 2018

The Last Jedi and Being On No Side

Can’t we take our entertainment less seriously?

January 10, 2018

Pirates Are Not Good: An Insight

I never thought I would have to say this, but pirates were not good. Getting...

January 08, 2018

PT Barnum and the Soft Con

Beware the soft con, the one that seems a bit like a joke.* Over the...

January 05, 2018

Twelfth Day (Twelfth Day of Christmas): Coming to an Epiphany

Our revels are coming to an end, but this is good. Shakespeare owns our Twelfth...

December 2017

December 23, 2017

Joyful Doubt at Christmas

Rejoice! One great good of Christmas is doubt that leads to wondering. At the end of...

December 22, 2017

Some Sentimentality

I asked Alexa for a Christmas movie and what she gave me was Christmas Town. To say...

December 20, 2017

A Saint for Our Time with an Advent Message

Advent is the prelude to new life in the nativity of Jesus. To live that...

December 13, 2017

Unexpected Gifts

There are Christmas miracles and then there are good parents. I have seen both and...

December 11, 2017

Variety is the Spice of Life: Christmas Music

If variety is the spice of love and music is the food of love, most...

December 09, 2017

Dominance of the Opiner

We no longer expect our leaders to know anything.

December 07, 2017

Remember . . . Remember . . . Not Just the 7th of December

They still remember Pearl Harbor at the ceremonies in our government and my guess is...

December 06, 2017

Be Like Santa and Love the Truth So Very Much (Saint Nicholas)

Do I love the truth beyond all passion? When the stubborn desire to win my...

December 04, 2017

The Progressive Element Everywhere

Some devils would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, but imagine preferring to...

December 01, 2017

Santa is Sort-of-Real: Telling the Truth About Santa

My Dad was plain: “No mythic fat man is getting the credit for the presents...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

The Stars are Dimmed by the Glare

There are famous pastors and then there are the pastors I have known: Pastor George,...

October 18, 2017

Saying the Wrong Thing at Just the Wrong Time

”Move on,” he said at just the moment he should have listened. “Let’s think about...