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June 2017

June 28, 2017

“Don’t Do Drugs!” and Other Bromides

Bromiders don't--or cannot--explain their moral reasoning. Bromiders only pick targets that are socially safe for...

June 21, 2017

Marriage Taught Me 31 Things in 31 Years

Marriage is a bloodless martyrdom, dying to self, the false self we have constructed so...

June 04, 2017

Confessor

He died as he lived and Father Michael Trigg lived as a confessor. From Oxford through...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Beauty and the Beast: A Response to a Response

Opine and the world opines with you, but attack Beauty and the Beast and you will opine...

May 28, 2017

“Wisdom” from Bud Plays Junior High Football: A Message to our POTUS

This Presidency needs some advice and it is time to look to the President's childhood...

May 22, 2017

Family AND Community

Family is and always has been a central part of my life. When George Bailey saw...

May 20, 2017

The Seventeenth Century speaks on the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century

I could not stop listening. The instrument, the program said, was a Stradivarius from 1699 and...

May 06, 2017

Never Regret the Good Done, But Liberty

Liberty is rare in human history if you are not rich, powerful, or in the...

May 01, 2017

Plato, Math, and Doing Science

Growing up there was a certain sort of Christian scientist who would blame Plato or...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

“Staff” Can Be Beautiful Stuff, but It Does not Last

The City glistened by Lake Michigan and was so beautiful that visitors would cry when...

April 19, 2017

Three Fashion Ideas that Should Trend But Will Not (Bright Week Party Post 3)

Once a man reaches a certain age, the young man clothes of his youth look...

April 18, 2017

Things My Adult Children Say I Should Not Say

A joy of having adult children is knowing the many, many things that I should...

April 04, 2017

Have Faith, Seek Understanding

Faith and reason go together for Christian people. Of course, sometimes even good Christian people...

April 03, 2017

Leaving a Proper Inheritance: A Lesson from “As You Like It”

Commercials still pitch "leaving something" for your family at death to people my age or...

April 02, 2017

Never, Ever, Every Hire This Man: On George B. McClellan

If you are hiring a leader, avoid one type more than (almost) any other....

April 01, 2017

On Moral Advice: The Particular Need Not be Universal

The Saint Constantine School is starting a shooting team, but I will not be a...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Bomfoggery : White, Angry, and Dying: What I learned from Moby Dick 2/3

Moby Dick is one of the best books for just this moment in American history. Melville...

March 27, 2017

Don’t Ask for a Refund: Not Even Attacked

During the horrible circus fire of 1944, when many children were burned alive, this happened:...

March 26, 2017

The Band Played as the Fire Burned: The Great Big Top Fire and Being Human

167 people were burned alive at the circus and almost seven hundred were injured. Nothing...

March 25, 2017

Yesterday I Went to the Circus and Here is What I Learned

I am not a circus person. Fewer and fewer Americans are circus people, but I...

March 24, 2017

Today I Go to the Circus

Right after I write this, I will go the circus and I hope to learn...

March 22, 2017

The Consolation of Philosophy (III/III)

Happiness is the Goal Philosophy gives us a hard truth: money, power, glory, fame cannot...

March 20, 2017

The Consolation of Philosophy is Hard, but Good (I/III)

I. Two Truths: For the Overly Sad or the Overly Cheerful One cause of our...

March 19, 2017

The Worst Argument about Morality on the Internet?

Take an issue, any issue. If you make an argument or state an opinion about...

March 18, 2017

What will she do? You must read to lead.

Hope and I got to chat with a nice group of young adults from affluent...

March 16, 2017

Three Ways Not To Start a Dialog

If you wish to get into a fight during dialog with a significant other or...

March 15, 2017

An Independent People With Something to Say Worth Hearing

He was, he told us, the descendant of the slaves pictured in his national museum...

March 12, 2017

The Constantine Strategy in the Benedict Option!

Civilizations usually muddle through except when they do not. What happens when the center does...

March 09, 2017

Napoleon and Josephine: Eros Isn’t Enough

If it is March 9, it is the anniversary of Napoleon and Josephine, a cautionary...

March 04, 2017

That Lightening Flash: Sure Before You Know

God speaks. He is there and He is not silent, but hearing God is the...