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April 2020

April 14, 2020

Titanic Day in a Pandemic

Prudence is the virtue needed in a crisis. So old stories teach us. The crisis...

April 09, 2020

The Revelation of God in Jesus Christ is Central (Saint Basil and Classical Education)

Saint Basil read Homer and the Greek philosophers, but he was captivated by Jesus. If you...

April 07, 2020

Learning from Thomas During a Pandemic (Guest Voice Jill Bergen 3/3)

For the duration of the pandemic, I have decided to focus on the positive. Dialectic...

April 05, 2020

Learning From Thomas During a Pandemic (Guest Voice Jill Bergen 1/3)

For the duration of the pandemic, I have decided to focus on the positive. Dialectic...

April 02, 2020

On Misreading Winning and the Mandate of Heaven (St. John of Damascus)

Times look bad and the temptation is to extrapolate from who is "winning" just now...

April 01, 2020

Get Thee Some Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash is a good bard for a pandemic. He is good for most pain,...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

Sullivan’s Travels: The Solidarity of Laughter

Sullivan's Travels may be the movie we need just now.* Sullivan is a guy born on...

March 29, 2020

Common Ground: Science, not Scientism, Unity, Not Dissension

Scientism Apparently saying we should listen to scientists when they speak about their specialty, but...

March 28, 2020

Follow Scientists on the Science, but NOT Necessarily on What To Do

Many politicians are wisely arguing that when it comes to medicine, they should heed medical doctors....

March 27, 2020

Distinctions We Need in Hard Times: Intended versus Unintended Consequences

We cannot talk intelligently about a crisis if we do not have the right vocabulary....

March 26, 2020

Baseball Opening Day in A Very Hard Year: Hank Greenberg in 1938

They had opening day in 1938, but in the shadow of World War II and...

March 25, 2020

Intended versus Unintended Consequences: A Helpful Distinction

Sometimes the right language can help us make better decisions or think more carefully about...

March 16, 2020

On Hasty Decisions in Tense Times

This too shall pass. And if that is so, then perhaps we should do as...

March 15, 2020

On “Finding Myself,” Nana, and a Plague Year

"Find yourself . . ." she had no time for it. Nana had no time...

March 14, 2020

Strong, Kind: Nana Beat the Plague Year

Our Nana beat the plague year, the influenza that killed so many in her school....

March 11, 2020

How to Defeat What We Fear (Plagues and Dracula)

Fear dismays and disarms. Love keeps calm, carries on, even if carrying on is a...

March 10, 2020

What We Fear (Plagues and Dracula)

What we love defines our best possibilities and what we fear our worst. Love, desire, can be fuel...

March 08, 2020

The God of Music: William Shakespeare, A Christian’s Song of Worship

Just now when we are once again being asked to choose between secularism, killer of millions...

February 2020

February 22, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic: In Summary (Guest Voice: Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 13, 2020

Love is Hidden (Jane Eyre)

Love is the goal, getting to absolute romance is hard. If I could pick anybody to...

February 12, 2020

AOC and I were wrong (and why it should or should not matter)

The other day Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez conflated the names of two economists “John Maynard Keynes”...

February 10, 2020

You Cannot Use Caps to Do Away With God: Metaphysics by Capitalization Part II (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 09, 2020

You Cannot Use Caps to Do Away With God: Metaphysics by Capitalization Part I (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 08, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic (In Which Guest Voice Jeff Williams Let’s Me Have It!)

Background on the Discussion: What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 03, 2020

Dorothy Sayers: the Great Person as Writer

A writer like Dorothy Sayers presents problems for a program exploring great works of art....

February 01, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic – Further Remarks on the Grounds for Morality (Jeff Williams)

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic: The Metaphysical Illusion of Moral Law (Jeff Williams)

What is happening? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we need...

January 26, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “A Knock at Midnight” – Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (7/7)

Seven days of listening to anointed preaching is good for the soul. Martin Luther King...

January 25, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “The American Dream”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (6/7)

To the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. pressed for solutions to the...

January 24, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “Guidelines for a Constructive Church”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (5/7)

God’s church must be built and sustained God’s way. What is that way? Reverend Doctor...