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February 2021

February 12, 2021

We Cannot Put off the Real Story

Advertisements remind us not to put off standard health care, just because there is a...

February 11, 2021

Be Active. . . Christians Let This Work Be Thine

Answer jingoism with patriotism. Answer quietism with Christian activism. Never mix motives, but be active...

February 10, 2021

Futurity Hath Secrets of Horror to Hide (A Certain Prophecy)

God knows, but we cannot know, for a certainty, the future except in some general...

February 08, 2021

‘Tis the Worst and the Best

The bully-boy often goes too far. When I was a boy, there was a bully...

February 06, 2021

The Anchor to Reality of Family

Hard times require something to help us survive. Friends have tried streaming all of a...

February 03, 2021

The Black Authors Who keep Teaching Me (A Collection of Reflections)

This month I am sharing my reading of Black American poets in the nineteenth century....

February 02, 2021

Aspiring, Hoping to Love America (Unknown Black Poet 1848, A Lady)

I meet people who cannot love their motherland. These are usually those who were told...

February 01, 2021

The African’s Dream

The truth is often knowable, if we only listen.** If any American meets someone who...

December 2020

December 19, 2020

Earthly and Heavenly Venus: Donne’s Triumphant Vindication of Harmony

Love (true love) and desire should go together, but sometimes do not. That Hideous Strength, the...

December 09, 2020

Why I Generally Wait to Review Books (or other bits of culture) I Do Not Like (And even Worldviews)

Here is a proposed general rule for a first read on new books, a first...

November 2020

November 03, 2020

God Be Kind To Us (with bonus reference to Ion)

Sometimes we are stupid. At least sometimes I am stupid. I should not confess anyone...

October 2020

October 24, 2020

Come On Man: How to Tell Hard Work from a Waste of Time (Euthydemus!)

Loving wisdom can be hard work or you can dodge anyone who might change your...

October 23, 2020

Being a Real Cannibal? A Journalist’s Tale

The tyrant, or simply the establishment, promises you treats if you lie. As a member...

October 18, 2020

Saving Our Rational Souls: On Reading Plato (A Short How To Because You Should Do)

Reading Plato There must be somebody who loves Plato the first time they read him,...

October 16, 2020

Knowing When You Already Know: the education of Holy Wisdom

Is there value to discussion when you already hold to the truth?* The classical model...

October 15, 2020

Our Hypothetical is not Our Reality (Republic)

Games are brilliant. Every year at Christmastide I try to play through some adventure that...

October 14, 2020

Inexorably Beautiful – the Cat Lucy

My brother's cat Lucy is elegance questing for loveliness. She has an unerring instinct for...

October 13, 2020

Beauty stirs Love and Then. . . (With a Sidelight on the Symposium and Diotima)

Beauty is all around us. Having said that truth, what next? The cosmos is beautiful,...

October 12, 2020

The Interruptions ( With a Bonus Thought on Plato’s Republic)

I would be hard at work on some important email or working on the media...

October 11, 2020

Our seeming error? Your fault.

Opposing the murderous Soviet Union was not what the cool kids did back when I...

October 07, 2020

Beware the Dilettante: How Luxury Can Keep Us From Wisdom (Phaedrus)

Luxury is fun on a holiday, but can be deadly in a lifetime, keeping us...

October 06, 2020

Father Ryan’s Error: The Voices He Did and Did Not Hear

When we listen to our times, our church, whose poetry are we hearing and whose...

October 05, 2020

At the end of the Storm, Divine Happiness (Shakespeare’s The Tempest)

We saw Tropical Storm Harvey coming in Houston, knew that something bad was coming, but...

October 04, 2020

The Deadly Trap of Rhetoric (Phaedrus)

Before he became a Christian, a relative was a shill for a patent-medicine man. As...

October 02, 2020

Envy

That he was a Moor was bad enough. That he chose someone smarter, more virtuous...

October 01, 2020

On Reading Plato: Thoughts for Starting

There must be someone out there who loved reading Plato right away, but I didn’t....

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Just Because We Like it Now: the Cautionary Tale of Abraham Cowley

The experts at any given moment can be horrible judges of what is good, true,...

September 27, 2020

Wandering Desire and the Twelfth Night

Some never enjoy the good things of God and His creation. Others wallow in the...

September 25, 2020

Leading a Discussion with a Small Group (Almost a Listicle but with a Pickwick Picture to Keep it From Being a Cool Exploitative Listicle)

The group discussion in your class has gotten smaller, pandemic or whatever other reason. If...

September 23, 2020

Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher? (The Sophist)

When the City is in Trouble What to do when education has been corrupted and...