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May 2017

May 04, 2017

What We Must Forget (Dante and Purgatory)

Dante did not love Beatrice, not the way he believed he loved Beatrice. For a romantic...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

The Complete Guide to Becoming a Great “Great Books” Teacher

Having led hundreds of great books discussions, I am often asked how to lead a...

April 22, 2017

A Bit More Obscure Christian Writers that I Enjoy Reading (Bright Week Post 6)

CS Lewis? I have read some Lewis every year of my life since I was...

April 20, 2017

The Worst Book I Read as a Child (Bright Week Post 4)

There are some really evil books out there: think Mein Kampf. There are also books that are just...

April 18, 2017

Things My Adult Children Say I Should Not Say

A joy of having adult children is knowing the many, many things that I should...

April 10, 2017

Sweet Protestant Poetry

Ignorance of Protestantism is vast and ugly assumptions common. Even amongst Protestant evangelicals, one can...

April 09, 2017

God: Think Great

God is great. How great? Think great and then imagine greater. There is no possible...

April 08, 2017

To See God: I Believe in Order to Understand

People know there is a Divine so deeply that it frustrates us. God is so...

April 06, 2017

Some Serious Concerns with the Gospel of John: A Memo

Lyons Christian College Lyons, New York RE: Life of Jesus 101 (Bible Department) TO: Professor...

April 04, 2017

Have Faith, Seek Understanding

Faith and reason go together for Christian people. Of course, sometimes even good Christian people...

April 03, 2017

Leaving a Proper Inheritance: A Lesson from “As You Like It”

Commercials still pitch "leaving something" for your family at death to people my age or...

April 02, 2017

Never, Ever, Every Hire This Man: On George B. McClellan

If you are hiring a leader, avoid one type more than (almost) any other....

March 2017

March 31, 2017

On Killing Whales and Americans or Shut Up and Just Kill the Whale (3/3)

Moby Dick is one of the great American books and a good place to start...

March 30, 2017

Bomfoggery : White, Angry, and Dying: What I learned from Moby Dick 2/3

Moby Dick is one of the best books for just this moment in American history. Melville...

March 29, 2017

Learning to Love a Book: What I Learned from the Loathsome Moby Dick (1/3)

Moby Dick is one of the best books for just this moment in American history. Herman...

March 23, 2017

Our Wills, Our Freedom, and Timelessness (Consolation of Philosophy Summed Up)

We can be happy, though not jolly, regardless of circumstances. Jolliness, a cheerful feeling, is...

March 22, 2017

The Consolation of Philosophy (III/III)

Happiness is the Goal Philosophy gives us a hard truth: money, power, glory, fame cannot...

March 20, 2017

The Consolation of Philosophy is Hard, but Good (I/III)

I. Two Truths: For the Overly Sad or the Overly Cheerful One cause of our...

March 12, 2017

The Constantine Strategy in the Benedict Option!

Civilizations usually muddle through except when they do not. What happens when the center does...

March 03, 2017

The Long Discussion: Such Larks!

Socratic discussion is my life's work and I am going to dialog with a religious...

March 01, 2017

Malory and Machiavelli: Just Now We Need Both

Just as Malory was ending, Machiavelli was beginning and that is as good a summary...

February 2017

February 26, 2017

Forgiveness is Not Cheap

Charlotte Bronte was right: forgiveness is the mightiest sword. Forgiveness cuts away the hate and...

February 22, 2017

In Which Hugh Hewitt Meets a Live Blog for His Fourth Way

If there is a new Bill Buckley, his name is Hugh Hewitt. He is a...

February 05, 2017

A Book for this Time: Watership Down

This is not a gentle time. People of the Word turn to words to step...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

On Being Margaret: Have Sense and Sensibility

There are three daughters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and on the surface that is one...

January 09, 2017

These are not the mermaids we expected. . .

Today Columbus, the sailor and not the city, had a disappointing day. The report says:...

December 2016

December 17, 2016

She Makes Bleak Golden

If you do not read Christina Rossetti, stop reading this now and go buy a...

December 14, 2016

Aspire to be Fezziwig: Isn’t It Time to Grow Up?

When I was a boy, my Papaws made me want to be old. They had...

December 10, 2016

Viewed from the Keel of a Canoe: Poetry for Gifting

Viewed from the Keel of a Canoe is a very good book of poetry by...

December 09, 2016

Stop Failing: Lessons from Virgil and Lucas

Don't Rejoice in Failure Dad knew a man who preached the same sermon every week....