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March 2014

March 18, 2014

Canaanite Prize: Who will win this year?

Noah is in the news. He is famous for his ark and the grace he...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

The Problem of “Pamela” for Pamela

Pamela is an early English sort-of-novel showing the triumph of the virtue of Pamela: one of...

February 21, 2014

Avoiding Liberal Arts Snobbery in Myself

I am a recovering liberal arts snob. Liberal arts advocates feel besieged for good reason....

February 05, 2014

The Achilles Challenge

The great warrior Achilles was given a choice: live long or live gloriously. He made...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

Peace! Peace!

Today the United States celebrates the work of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., particularly his...

January 06, 2014

The Mystical Next Time

Thank God that no sizable number of Americans support Nazi or Soviet-style regimes. We must,...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Three Full Cheers for Rural Pastors!

As the son of a pastor, the grandson of a deacon, and the great-grandson of...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

This Schism Was Cancelled

What if you gave a schism and before anybody of global importance had noticed, the...

November 21, 2013

Party Better! (On More, or Better, Parties)

Some Holiday parties will lack holiness. Other Holiday parties will be selfish and wasteful. In...

November 19, 2013

“We are dying . . . set up a committee!”

My daily news comes from The Telegraph: if you want literate center-right English perspective, then the Telegraph will not...

November 13, 2013

RINO’s and Religion: Avoiding a Fallacy

Ask a teacher: a paper that settles an issue with a dictionary definition is a...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

A Need for “Persuasion”

Ideally? Washington politicians would read and discuss Jane Austen's Persuasion. Practically? Practically, our leaders are too...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

The Church Must Change or Die!

Like a sharknado, the death of the Church is impossible, but creates buzz. Left-of-center Evangelicals...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

I love you, now change.

Being married twenty-seven years is better than being married one year and one reason is...

July 12, 2013

Thoughts on Science and Faith (Part III)

This is the last part in an informal series on "faith" and what Christians mean...

July 10, 2013

Thoughts on Faith and Science (Part II)

I posted some informal thoughts on faith in Part I. In Part II, I examine...

July 09, 2013

Thoughts on Faith and Science (Part I)

If theism is true, then we might see God.1 No greater good can be imagined...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

The American Moral Minority

Shock about being in a minority on sexual morality shocks me. Christians in America have...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

If Left Alone: What My Grandchildren Will See

Christians are a minority when it comes to sex outside of marriage. The Christian church...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Adam, Where are you?

One advantage of aging is knowing good music that the trendy have forgotten, while the...

April 05, 2013

On Being Sad: the Death of Lucas Arts

They are gone and we will miss them and their place no one can fill....

April 02, 2013

The Bible Tells Me So

There is a simple error: you cannot be part of a community, if you don't...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Invisible, but Enduring

Recently, Reed Galen, deputy campaign manager for the McCain camp gave some political advice. While...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

To Hollywood with Love

The Oscars substituted vulgarity for wit and disappointed expectant vulgarians with cut-rate vulgarisms. Oscar assaulted...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Avoid These Things in Any Star Wars Reboot or Face the Wrath of Me

Perhaps Disney does not fear my wrath. My kids do not fear my wrath and...

January 22, 2013

We Just Don’t Agree

Modernity came and many of us said: "Good. We like some of that, but don't...

January 04, 2013

No Science Here

We are being told by people who should know better that making the "morning after...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Christmas Carol (Postlude): AIG and Literary Humbug

This year I supersaturated in Charles Dickens to celebrate his bicentennial and used his Christmas Carol as part...

December 25, 2012

Christmas Carol (X): Jollification

Scrooge repents. He repents even though he is unsure of salvation. He is sorry for...

December 24, 2012

Christmas Carol (IX): Ghost of Christmas Future

We discount Scrooge's sins too steeply if we make him merely stingy. Scrooge's stinginess made...