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February 2021

February 07, 2021

Oh then, Brothers, with your armor, Heed ye not the siren charmer!

The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is His name. He breaks unrighteousness and injustice...

February 06, 2021

The Anchor to Reality of Family

Hard times require something to help us survive. Friends have tried streaming all of a...

February 03, 2021

The Black Authors Who keep Teaching Me (A Collection of Reflections)

This month I am sharing my reading of Black American poets in the nineteenth century....

February 02, 2021

Aspiring, Hoping to Love America (Unknown Black Poet 1848, A Lady)

I meet people who cannot love their motherland. These are usually those who were told...

February 02, 2021

Written in 2017: Christian Paganism and a Bad Nationalism Coming?

Here is a post I wrote in 2017 after two years taking on a growing...

February 01, 2021

The African’s Dream

The truth is often knowable, if we only listen.** If any American meets someone who...

January 2021

January 31, 2021

Ten Ways to Avoid Getting Duped by Information

I once called the eminent scientist Alfred Wallace, "Lord Alfred Wallace." He was not a...

January 26, 2021

Hungry for the Truth

This is the diet time of year, the lean month, sans alcohol, sans parties, sans...

January 23, 2021

Vroom! Vroom! (On Buying an Automobile and Empowering Employees)

I learned something last week, but first I must tell you how, painfully, I learned...

January 20, 2021

Beautiful You

Beauty pierces. Beauty creates desire, shows that we want or need something, and so drives...

January 19, 2021

Other People’s Heroes

Christmas is almost a month behind us, but Christmas is coming. The lessons of that...

January 15, 2021

Weirdly Cold

As I write the temperature is roughly 30 and heading for 24 Fahrenheit. Many places...

January 09, 2021

The Bigger Man is not in Bronze

Small loves, in the right place, help us have great loves at the right time....

January 08, 2021

Divine Love and the Gift of Human Consent

What went wrong? Jesus came to give the possibility of figs in season, holidays when...

January 06, 2021

A Utopia that is Someplace for Us (Epiphany)

On the road, you come to places that are marvels, known to those who live...

January 05, 2021

Rest on the Twelfth Night in a House for Our Heroes (Twelfth Night of Christmas)

The Last Day of the Christmas Feasting Gracious friends invited us out of Houston, that...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

The Transformation done by the Lowly (Fifth Day of Christmas)

All was transformed, each culture, every thought, by Christmas. Each good from every time was kept...

December 26, 2020

Let the Bad Go, The Feast of Stephen (Second Day of Christmas, Sometimes Called Boxing Day)

Some things seem so bad, they can ruin the thing they are a bit like...

December 24, 2020

Bringing Our Gifts to the Holiday of History: Twelve Days Start on the Eve of Christmas

How does one best find the joy of a holiday? There are seasons to Christmas:...

December 20, 2020

Herod versus Mary at Christmas

Christmas has villains: Caesar and Herod. Far off in Rome, Augustus Caesar was a colonial...

December 19, 2020

Earthly and Heavenly Venus: Donne’s Triumphant Vindication of Harmony

Love (true love) and desire should go together, but sometimes do not. That Hideous Strength, the...

December 18, 2020

One Truth, Different Icons, One Family History

An adult child that will remain nameless found our new creche arrangement highly inappropriate. *...

December 15, 2020

Bet on the Fairy Tale: the Enduring Queen Outlasts Augustus

Bet on the fairy tale. Not the Hallmark version, but the hard Grimm truths that...

December 14, 2020

And Mary Said (The Politics of Christmas?)

The politics of Christmas are the incarnation of jollification: the righteous losers end up winning,...

December 12, 2020

Choose Mary (Beware the Zealots and the Sadducees)

There were Zealots in Palestine. They rallied and wrote that God was on their side....

December 09, 2020

Why I Generally Wait to Review Books (or other bits of culture) I Do Not Like (And even Worldviews)

Here is a proposed general rule for a first read on new books, a first...

December 08, 2020

West Virginian Chuck Yeager: Rest in Peace

Chuck Yeager is gone to Glory. As the West Virginia state song puts it, all...

December 04, 2020

Class with Tea

Make beauty where you can, spending if you must, but be warned of those who...

December 02, 2020

In Miniature

The very smallness is what is fascinating. Miniature London is well underway in our house....

November 2020

November 30, 2020

Red Letter Day at the Bailey Building and Loan

If I have a bad day, I call my dad and say: “It is another...