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July 2020

July 21, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Toward an Epistemology of Belief (Part 6)

Since the Enlightenment some have felt that reason is primarily about skepticism. Of course skepticism...

July 20, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: The Place of the Prophetic and Miraculous (Part 5)

Belief in miracles is ubiquitous in the West, but many Christian academics are shamed faced...

July 19, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: The Place of Religious Experience (Part 4)

William James in the Variety of Religious Experience carefully describes the nature, limitations, and importance...

July 18, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Service to God is not just a Matter of the Mind (Part 3)

It should be obvious to all Christians that Pascal was right. We do have to...

July 17, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: Moderation in Methods (Part 2)

The twentieth century loved to speak of “revolutions” . . . even in the area...

July 16, 2020

Christ Above All or The Integration of Faith, Values, and Learning: the Crisis of this Last Age of Man (Part I)

As C.S. Lewis wrote in his prophetic novel That Hideous Strength we are witnessing the...

July 15, 2020

Moving Beyond Platitudes on Love

We all ought to be for love. Christianity announces the good news that at the...

July 13, 2020

Plato goes on being important. . .and is oft misunderstood.

Rejoice. Smart people have helped us, there are very few new questions. Long ago very...

July 12, 2020

O Holy Wisdom

If a nation will not pay reparations, they might at least avoid committing the same...

July 11, 2020

Keeping our Brothers and Sisters

Moral men have a duty to help their neighbors, but nobody has an obligation to...

July 10, 2020

God Bless the Romans

The nuns get to live and do charity as they believe right. They are not,...

July 09, 2020

To Be an Exceptional People

I have met the Chosen People and some of them are Americans, but not all...

July 08, 2020

Taxation, Non-Profits, and Moral Colonialism

There is no taxation without discrimination. The power to govern is the power to discriminate...

July 01, 2020

Why do tyrants always behave stupidly?

Read about the downfall of any tyrant, even a less than awful one such as...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

On the Russian Revolution and Today (Do not be a Robert Service)

If you assume something is true, then showing that it is true is easy. Contrary...

June 28, 2020

Thomas Dixon, Birth of a Nation, Woodrow Wilson, and a Mistake

The progressive movement in America was born in a renewed white supremacy based on "elite...

June 27, 2020

Culture War?

Nobody likes the culture war, not even the culture warriors. Being "against" anything not associated...

June 26, 2020

Communism, Mucha, Beauty

In one day, I saw a museum of Communism and a museum of Alphonse Mucha....

June 22, 2020

Teddy and Nana

When I was a boy, a person in my dad’s first church, better off than...

June 21, 2020

A Reading List for This Election (At the Request of a Former Student)

I am a small government conservative, supportive of the free market. More fundamentally, I am...

June 20, 2020

Ever Green: Plant a Tree

We have two new olive trees planted. One to remember an excellent person who died...

June 19, 2020

Juneteenth! Let Freedom Ring!

Happiest Juneteenth! On this day, one of the last outposts of the Confederacy, Texas, got...

June 18, 2020

Mainstream, Establishment, Obviously Wrong in a Particular Way. This Never Changes

We must trust the experts, except when we cannot, and there is a particular kind...

June 15, 2020

Nessie versus Athena (without Ninjas)

Nessie versus Athena? Nessie wins, more or less, though Athena maintains her dignity. This is...

June 14, 2020

Ballet, Education, and Bad Philosophy

The students rushed off to see the grave of a classical Russian novelist and our...

June 13, 2020

Timing is Everything (The Discussion of Philosophical Motives)

On Charity with a (fairly) Uncontroversial Point for Christians Christ commands us to love our...

June 11, 2020

Exhaustion, Moral and Otherwise

Some things we cannot control. Other people decide differently than they should or things just...

June 10, 2020

Something to Read Just Now (Ten Books I Find Helpful)

What to read this summer? This week two helpful books stood out. One was the...

June 09, 2020

The Bite of the Tarantula and the Power of Musick

Cure the bite of the "tarantula!" Disharmony is a bad sign in the soul or...

June 08, 2020

Losing, Winning, Losing, Won

On Winning and Losing Losing is no virtue, but then neither is winning. The Soviets...