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October 2016

October 02, 2016

“Not My Game” is Historically Powerful

When Joshua was faced by the Captain of the Lord's Army, the new leader asked...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Living a Good Life in a Real City Requires Thinking

Recently a nice fellow on social media suggested my advice on some practical question proved...

September 29, 2016

In Which I Dialog with Not Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What follows is the correspondence between myself and a person who is Not Dietrich Bonhoeffer....

September 28, 2016

A Glutton for Argument: Feast But Do Not Gorge on Words

Argument can help save your soul (by God's grace) or be a way to damn...

September 24, 2016

The Bears versus the Raiders: Do I have to pick?

When our annual blow-out Super Bowl party comes around, there is pressure to root for a team....

September 23, 2016

Screen Time: Too Much is Too Much

Kids are not smoking so much. That is good, but schools and colleges are seeing...

September 22, 2016

A Story of 9/11 by a Friend from Libya

I did not write today's piece. It was given to me by a friend from...

September 21, 2016

Passion and Liberty!

We are simultaneously in a time that celebrates passion, but is pushing technology on us...

September 18, 2016

God Will Use Even Our Fakery

"Fake it until you make it" sounds like bad advice. Pretending to something you do...

September 16, 2016

Do Not Expectorate: Confusing Social Norms and Moral Law

My Mother likes to tell us about the noble effort of the town of Clendenin,...

September 11, 2016

Don’t Be Bored: 9/11 Continues even on 9/12

I got up to teach the morning the Twin Towers fell. The buildings were burning...

September 09, 2016

Trek to the Stars: Thank you Gene Roddenberry, fellow humanist

I know: he was a secular humanist, taking the Christian humanism of Erasmus and stripping it of...

September 07, 2016

A Green and Pleasant Land (An Idea from Homer’s Odyssey)

Our school is building a fence, though we are paying for it. The fence is...

September 04, 2016

On the Edge: How We Must Live

The most dangerous thing my wife ever placed in our house was a headboard with...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

The alt-Right: am I White? What does that mean? (2/3)

If the alt-Right (the Ku Klux Klan with Twitter and irony) is to be believed,...

August 30, 2016

The Alt-Right: Irony in Service to Evil (1/3)

Bad discussions happen when one person in the discussion gives a strong view and the...

August 29, 2016

Black Lives Matter

If you are a Christian, black lives matter. "But wait," we start to say, "Don't....

August 24, 2016

A Pillar in the Heart of Our School: Saint Elizabeth, New Martyr . . What if you lose?

She was intelligent, capable, beautiful and born into a position to use all her great...

August 18, 2016

You Can Justify Almost Anything if You Like the Person

Brunhilde Pomsel worked for a man who was very nice in the office. If you...

July 2016

July 06, 2016

Not Even for the Pastor’s Kid: Equality Under the Law

When I was a boy, I was sitting next to the collection plate during Sunday...

June 2016

June 10, 2016

Taming Me (Taming of the Shrew)

Shakespeare was not infallible and The Taming of the Shrew is full of his limitations....

June 09, 2016

The Jolly Jokes of Virtue (Merry Wives)

The wages of virtue is jollification. This isn't obvious, because we sometimes confuse not sinning...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Not Wanting What is Good For Me (All’s Well That Ends Well)

There have been times in my life when what was best for me, obvious to...

May 26, 2016

No Place for Kingmakers (Henry VI, Part 3)

A sure way to spot a dysfunctional church, business, or organization is to look for...

May 23, 2016

No Place Else to Go: A Jolly or a Deadly Monday

When there is no place else to go, that can be a bad thing, unless...

May 22, 2016

God’s Judgment Can’t Be Covered Up with Media (Henry VI, Part 1)

As we enter a Presidential election where a majority of Americans dislike both candidates, we...

May 20, 2016

Iago University: the Treason of the Professors (Othello)

Secular or Christian-too much of American higher education should be named Iago University where promising...

May 19, 2016

Christianity and the Cultural Crisis

I outlined the tensions of our era in a brief lecture at The Saint Constantine...

May 18, 2016

Measure for Measure: Aspire to be Good, but We Are Not (Jesus, Shakespeare)

Jesus was a very smart and wise man and when we have a chance to...

May 16, 2016

Accepting (and Enjoying!) our Human Foolishness (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

We are foolish, but need not be Biblical fools. Biblical fools destroy life and...