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January 2019

January 12, 2019

Three Benefits of Reading the Bible Through Each Year

Some great books I read and reread. Wisdom, insight, and sheer beauty come with care....

January 11, 2019

The Next Step in Education or Beyond Authorial Intent: A Pause for a Fine Phrase (James A. Emanuel)

Writing every day impresses on me how hard finding just the right word, phrase, or...

January 10, 2019

Roots of My Platonism, or Neo-Platonism, or Neo-Platonic Christianity, or As You Will

I am a Christian because of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. I am...

December 2018

December 22, 2018

Peggy and the Need for Feminism

Culture changes can make mild social injustices obvious, or unpopular, or create new ones. Changes...

December 19, 2018

God Sends Sunday (Arna Bontemps)

Some of us are born believing we are “lucky” or that we are “men of...

December 18, 2018

Palafox (A Story by Eric Chevillard)

Palafox is blurbed by comparisons as if the reviewers could find no reason to praise...

December 12, 2018

Our Thoroughly Smug Thought Leaders and Us

O generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable, So begins a Salutation from Ezra Pound*...

December 04, 2018

Fantastic Beasts: Rowling Vindicates (Some of) Her Critics

JK Rowling (JKR) did sub-creation splendidly in the Harry Potter series. She had seven books, with...

December 03, 2018

The Necessity of the Stranger Friend (Laws)

We need stranger friends. Now this is not an appeal that people befriend me eccentricity...

December 02, 2018

The Phoney Victory: Contrarian Hitchens (The Other One)

There must have been something wonderfully contrarian in the water of the Hitchen’s house as...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom

Growing up and going to graduate school in Rochester, New York meant Frederick Douglass was...

November 15, 2018

The Discussion Is the Thing Whereby to Capture the Conscience of the Culture (5/5)

Some classical educators just now claim they are the answer to what ails us, when...

November 10, 2018

Heroic Losers: On Why Winning Is Not Always Winning

We need more heroic losers. While getting more heroic losers, we might aspire to shed...

November 09, 2018

A Leadership Lesson from The Song of Roland or Why Charlemagne May Not Be Your Next College President, But You Might Consider Someone Like Him

Leaders: We Need Them Choosing a leader is hard and our present few decades of...

November 06, 2018

Don’t you want to be free? Black Thunder and the Question for Our Time (Arna Bontemps)

“Don’t you want to be free?” That’s the question the enslaved people of the United...

November 05, 2018

“Times were so horrible,” the young Evangelical Whig explained to his Nana

“Times were so horrible,” the young Evangelical Whig explained to his Nana. “We cannot go...

November 04, 2018

“We Cannot Go Back” says the Person Reviving Whiggery: The Self-Referential Incoherence of the Young Evangelical Whigs

“We cannot go back! Do not be so nostalgic!” So says a certain kind of...

November 02, 2018

Thinking about the Old South (Arna Bontemps)

Antebellum. Americans need the truth and for many the truth begins with killing a lie:...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

When Mars did not Attack: Fake News to the Max

They panicked over the fakery in the news. As many as a million people may...

October 30, 2018

As Long as You Are What You Are

We sat talking, a mountain rising over us and a green valley beneath us. The...

October 29, 2018

Bob Woodward’s Book: the Up to Date is Dated

Often I wait a bit to read a political book. Media will give me the...

October 28, 2018

A Very Bad Way to Understand Texts or An Error I Made So You Do Not Have to Do So

Plato wrote a great many books and we are blessed with all of them. You...

October 26, 2018

Convenient Faith is Convenient but isn’t Faith

“Never,” Mom said, “believe a thing, because you wish it to be true.” She brought...

October 24, 2018

Heavenly Music (Timaeus)

Get Truth Where You Can Get truth where you can. Some useful ideas comes to...

October 23, 2018

On Contradictions in a Literary Collection (Biblical and Otherwise)

There is a species of literary juvenalia that goes looking for contradictions in great books...

October 22, 2018

The Likely Story: Science and Explanation (Timaeus)

The truth is out there, but knowing the truth requires work. That is the delightful...

October 20, 2018

Eden to Bethlehem (Danielle Hitchen)

No grandchildren yet, and my children are grownups now, yet I have always loved picture...

October 19, 2018

What caused God? (An Error Explained)

Good Advice from a Good Professor Don’t reject an argument nobody is making. This good...

October 18, 2018

The Chosen One Or How To Tell If it is YOU That Will Save Us All (Timaeus)

“It’s bad luck to be you,” so said a video game on the game death...

October 17, 2018

Forgetting the Heroes, I like Ike More than Atlantis (Timaeus)

Beat the bad guys and the History Channel will end up talking more about the...