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May 2016

May 22, 2016

God’s Judgment Can’t Be Covered Up with Media (Henry VI, Part 1)

As we enter a Presidential election where a majority of Americans dislike both candidates, we...

May 21, 2016

Waiting for Constantine

Conservatives are rightly skeptical of great men. For every Lincoln, there is a string of...

May 20, 2016

Iago University: the Treason of the Professors (Othello)

Secular or Christian-too much of American higher education should be named Iago University where promising...

May 18, 2016

Measure for Measure: Aspire to be Good, but We Are Not (Jesus, Shakespeare)

Jesus was a very smart and wise man and when we have a chance to...

May 17, 2016

Once You Have a Mess, It Just Gets Messier (Richard III)

When the leaders are bad, things get to be a mess, and when things are...

May 16, 2016

Accepting (and Enjoying!) our Human Foolishness (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

We are foolish, but need not be Biblical fools. Biblical fools destroy life and...

May 14, 2016

Endurance and Not Words (Troilus and Cressida)

I love you. Very powerful to say today, but most powerful to say every day...

May 01, 2016

The Priority of a Party: You cannot be too Happy (Much Ado about Nothing)

One of my children once said: "I don't want to be too good. It would...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

The Great Enemy to Leadership: Flattery (Julius Caesar)

There are some men so great that even when they are hardly involved in an...

April 29, 2016

Intellectualism, the Only Thing More Foolish than a Lover (Love’s Labors Lost)

If only fools fall in love, then only greater fools miss love for intellectualism. Intellectualism...

April 28, 2016

Not OK Anymore: Antisemitism Worse than Shakespeare

William Shakespeare may be the greatest writer in the English speaking world and a brilliant...

April 27, 2016

Empowering Ophelia: How to Know You are Dating Hamlet (Hamlet 3/3)

Hamlet is one type of boyfriend to be avoided at all costs. Dads cannot control...

April 26, 2016

No Exit: Theism is not for the Fearful (Hamlet 2/3)

There is no escape from this life, what we have done, and the person we...

April 25, 2016

Questions are not the Problem: Finding Yourself and not Endless Sorrow (Hamlet 1/3)

Higher education begins in learning to form and ask good questions. A good professor challenges...

April 24, 2016

The Comedy of Errors (Or How To Win a Trade War)

Everything may not turn out perfectly in this life, but by God's grace everything will...

April 23, 2016

Our Duty: Find our Place, Do Our Duty (Shakespeare’s Coriolanus)

Nothing is worse than when the rich oppress the poor except, perhaps, when the poor...

April 22, 2016

Worse things than Losing, Better things than Winning: Richard II

We have a Presidential candidate who says we are going to win so much as...

April 21, 2016

Did I ever tell you you’re my hero? (The Search for Henry V or Siegfried)

We are always looking for heroes. Often we find someone we admire, a political, religious,...

April 19, 2016

Woe is not Romantic: Just Ask Juliet and Romeo

Woe is not romantic, but art can make it feel that way. If a piece...

April 18, 2016

Lovers Win, Wise Guys Lose (Living “As You Like It”)

Love can make you stupid . . . or seemingly stupid. People in love believe...

April 17, 2016

Ending Envy and Revenge in Redemption (Learning from The Winter’s Tale)

It should be a tragedy, because envy and revenge always end in tragedy. They are...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Plato and Jesus

Certain critics of great books education fear that the books will replace the Book. They...

February 04, 2016

Patience to Be Free: Numbers is a Good Book

I get so tired in the book of Numbers of all the numbering. In fact,...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Do Not Be A Scrooge (The Early One)

There is a weird fashion amongst conservatives to say something nice about Scrooge: he paid...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

Islam: For the Sake of the Gospel, Let’s Tell the Truth

We cannot love our Islamic neighbor or expect them to come to Christianity through any ministry...

November 05, 2015

Do the Right Thing in Christian Ministry: Avoid Brocklehurst

Recently, in hard (but friendly) dialog with some non-theists, I was reminded how small the...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

Heavy Lifting: Grow Up, Get a Job, Raise a Family, and Other Manly Advice

If a certain kind of book must be written and read, a warning should flash...

October 15, 2015

Happy Birthday PG Wodehouse

If I am very sad, I turn to the complete Sherlock Holmes for soothing reading....

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Two Johns: Hagee and Steinbeck

America is good at producing original personalities and at least two of them are named...

September 15, 2015

A Pearl Not Worth Anything

Jesus told a story about a man who found a pearl of great price and...