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February 2018

February 15, 2018

Gregory of Nazianzus and the Serious Business of Education

Thinking well is hard work, and easy answers from quick Google searches can cause us...

February 13, 2018

Educating the Heart (A Thought from Pride and Prejudice)

Jane Austen is the teacher we need, the thinker we ignore at our peril. God...

February 06, 2018

Pastor, Patriot, Poet: Lemuel Haynes

If he was a minuteman, a Patriot when the cause was high risk, then you...

February 02, 2018

Hospitality, Gardening, and Poetry: Be Anne Spencer

A few of us are called to be Jeremiah, but most of us cannot live...

February 01, 2018

On the Exile and Finding Home

America is my home. After visiting, reading, studying, I have come to particularly love Mongolia,...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Psalms of Praise (A Movement Primer)- A Board Book for Baby Believers!

The reality of God, like the reality of air, water, and ideas, hits us from...

January 29, 2018

The Beloved Unknown and Education

Learning, real education, is a product of the love of wisdom, a desire that cannot...

January 28, 2018

Learning to Fight Racist Education: Dialog with the Work of Carter Woodson

Carter G. Woodson demonstrated that racists kept African-Americans in a subservient state after Empancipation by...

January 23, 2018

I cannot stop listening. . .

Many students use Plato’s ideas without realizing they are doing so. As a result, we...

January 19, 2018

Read Anne Spencer: God’s Flowering Beauty Overcomes Human Ugliness

Beauty is needful always, but just now deeply. God help us, but we need the...

January 17, 2018

The Lost King of France: Sorrow, Science, and Simplicity

This boy was born in luxury we can hardly imagine and died covered in lice....

January 16, 2018

Fire and Fury: A Sympathetic Account of the President

This is a review of a book, not of the President of the United States....

January 13, 2018

Ms. Brazile’s Must Read Book

Donna Brazile is the kind of person who might like a good word, even from...

January 12, 2018

On the Tyrant Soul

Soul work is frightening. It is easier to talk about politics than about our souls....

January 08, 2018

PT Barnum and the Soft Con

Beware the soft con, the one that seems a bit like a joke.* Over the...

January 07, 2018

Love Thy Body: Nancy Pearcey’s Book, Brilliant if Flawed

I love this book, brilliant if flawed. You should buy it and read it, but...

January 02, 2018

Rossetti Pierces My Heart (Ninth Day of Christmas)

She wrote a poem that became a carol, but do not limit Christina Rossetti. She...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

Dickens Best Christmas Story: The Cricket on the Hearth

Get thee to the Dickens' Christmas story you have not read: The Cricket on the Hearth. ...

December 14, 2017

We Know, We Learn (Crown College Question 9)

When I was a child, I would roll the dice and then count the dots....

October 2017

October 01, 2017

But We Won: the Worst Trump Election Book Yet (“How Trump Won”)

The election of 2016 has produced small books, dishonest books, and now a sad book How...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

To Be Happy, Try This: Sip, Watch, Relax

Modern airlines would rather sell us happiness than provide basic comfort. Instead of serving us...

September 17, 2017

What Happened? Hillary Happened.

Hillary! That was the campaign: depending on how you reacted to Hillary! you could vote...

September 13, 2017

Finding the Living Cave: What I Learned from Odysseus

I have known men who were most at home in the woods. They know the...

August 2017

August 20, 2017

Eclipse: a Philosopher Annotates “Total Eclipse of the Heart” using Republic

Life passes and makes what once was good, a shame. My love, still difficult to...

August 15, 2017

Somebody Pay the Writers More or Find New Writers

I started a new children series and stopped, not because I was offended, but because...

June 2017

June 13, 2017

God is so Good —Questions from M

The small child in a dark room knows that somewhere out there is a...

June 12, 2017

Going to Bed With Tacitus —Questions from M

My mind churns away and keeps me awake as I think about what needs to...

June 09, 2017

You are Biased! –Questions from M

Opening one's mind to other points of view in religion has not made me less...

May 2017

May 28, 2017

“Wisdom” from Bud Plays Junior High Football: A Message to our POTUS

This Presidency needs some advice and it is time to look to the President's childhood...

May 05, 2017

Words Always Fail (A Bit) and the Life Giving Cycle of Love

When I want to say "I love you," I often give a gift. Why? Saying...