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March 2021

March 24, 2021

Hellas: With No Monument to Preserve Her Except that of the Heart

Rootless, lost, unattached, homeless: these feelings overwhelm those who forget the mothers and fathers that...

March 21, 2021

The Hectorate and the Beloved Community

The Hectorate, the league of hectors, is acid on the soul of the Church. These...

March 20, 2021

The Ball is Not a Chew Toy, On the Nature of Things (A Nessie the Wonder Dog Story)

Nessie has triumphed over her last ball at the cost of her favorite game. To fetch...

March 19, 2021

What in the world? The Glories of Really Hard Stuff (A Nessie the Wonder Dog Story)

Sometimes like Nessie, I just listen in wonder. May I never only listen to ideas...

March 16, 2021

Searching for Truth: On Pragmatics, Babies and Bathwater

A good life is more than pragmatic, but does take into account what works. If we are...

March 15, 2021

On Ideas without Mind: Could Be, but Probably Not?

A cosmos of physical objects alone would lack justice. Ideas, say justice, seem a different...

March 13, 2021

The Snark Overflows

The snark generally consumes us. Avoid too much snark. In a grad school lounge, at...

March 12, 2021

Underdetermined

I never have a pass on making a bad argument. No scholar should claim more...

March 11, 2021

Necessarily Uncertain

The just will live by faith. Faith means we must be reasonable even when uncertain,...

March 10, 2021

The Limits of Unaided Reason

Human reason, yes, but give us also the revelation of reason that comes from God....

March 09, 2021

On Genuine Morality Without God?

Wisdom cries out, but we often miss her voice. We are too busy and too...

March 08, 2021

Losing is No Virtue, Victory at Any Cost Can Be Worse: An Argument in Favor of Civility in a Nation Seeking Justice

Are you tired of losing? Good. Any Christian citizen or subject of any nation will...

March 07, 2021

Vaccine!

I am thankful. I heard stories of what the polio vaccine was like, a bit...

February 2021

February 28, 2021

Freedom Now: Democracy

Democracy Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I...

February 27, 2021

Tambourines of Childhood

The fashionable sort are figuring out what the folks did wrong back in the day....

February 26, 2021

Touching Up History

I was not very good at laundry and so I put bleach stains on my...

February 25, 2021

Wonder of Houston Lights

Wonder Early blue evening. Lights ain’t come on yet. Looky yonder! They come on now!*...

February 24, 2021

Decent People: Mistakes Were Made

"Mistakes were made." That is the passive voiced apology that is no apology. People make...

February 23, 2021

A Dream Deferred

A dream can be deferred, but not forever. You can go a good bit longer,...

February 22, 2021

Lying about Goodness

Be good! Hard to argue with this command, it being good to be good and...

February 20, 2021

The Two Way Evil of Hate

Hatred is two-way bad. The worst of hatred is the damage done to the hated,...

February 19, 2021

Turning the Corner or On the Houston Great Freeze (Langston Hughes)

Final Curve When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know...

February 17, 2021

Still Here!

Still Here I’ve been scarred and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has...

February 16, 2021

The Rent

Little Lyric (Of Great Importance) I wish the rent Was heaven sent.* When a great...

February 15, 2021

Cold, Blue, Cold Monday

Blue Monday No use in my going Downtown to work today, It’s eight, I’m late—And...

February 13, 2021

Recollecting and Helping

I was once on my way to an important meeting, when one of children asked...

February 12, 2021

We Cannot Put off the Real Story

Advertisements remind us not to put off standard health care, just because there is a...

February 11, 2021

Be Active. . . Christians Let This Work Be Thine

Answer jingoism with patriotism. Answer quietism with Christian activism. Never mix motives, but be active...

February 10, 2021

Futurity Hath Secrets of Horror to Hide (A Certain Prophecy)

God knows, but we cannot know, for a certainty, the future except in some general...

February 08, 2021

‘Tis the Worst and the Best

The bully-boy often goes too far. When I was a boy, there was a bully...