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September 2015

September 12, 2015

My Summer of Steinbeck: Religious Bigot?

California was the Texas of the twentieth century: the land of opportunity and growth. It...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

As Good As You: Redemption is Possible… Even for Me.

I have not lived as good a life as Hope. Generally, with far less going...

June 09, 2015

What Jane Didn’t Tell Rochester

Jane Eyre is a manual for Christian romance and anybody in love should read it. The...

June 08, 2015

Lesson in Loving Well: Never, Ever Be St John Rivers

If you wish to be in love properly and have not read Jane Eyre, stop now. Read...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Learning from Fiction: What is wrong with fundamentalists and atheists?

The man who cannot learn from fiction because it is not literally true is like...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

Lessons in Leadership (I): Steve Jobs

I am reading books on leadership with a group of friends at HBU and we...

March 2014

March 19, 2014

Middle March Advice from Middlemarch

It is the middle of March, so I am reading Middlemarch. This plan has been...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

The Problem of “Pamela” for Pamela

Pamela is an early English sort-of-novel showing the triumph of the virtue of Pamela: one of...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Our Kid’s Dentist Says: Buy this Book!

So I have this novel . . .and the publisher has fixed certain...

December 19, 2013

In Which I Live Blog Sarah Palin’s New Book: “Good Tidings of Great Joy”

The Rules: In a live reading, I live my life while reading a book and...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

The Bible and “Fifty Shades of Grey”

To avoid disappointment let me begin by saying this is not a post reviewing Fifty Shades...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

On Mindless Entertainment

Charles Dickens wrote a most excellent essay against proposed Sabbath laws, Sunday Under Three Heads. Certain...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

The Bible is the Iliad!

Did Jesus rise from the dead? The Gospels say He did, but lately I have...

April 2013

April 12, 2013

In Which I Live Blog a Marathon Weekend Reading of Plato’s Republic

What would happen if a group of HBU students, faculty, and staff joined together to...

April 02, 2013

The Bible Tells Me So

There is a simple error: you cannot be part of a community, if you don't...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Christmas Carol (Postlude): AIG and Literary Humbug

This year I supersaturated in Charles Dickens to celebrate his bicentennial and used his Christmas Carol as part...

December 25, 2012

Christmas Carol (X): Jollification

Scrooge repents. He repents even though he is unsure of salvation. He is sorry for...

December 24, 2012

Christmas Carol (IX): Ghost of Christmas Future

We discount Scrooge's sins too steeply if we make him merely stingy. Scrooge's stinginess made...

December 20, 2012

Christmas Carol (VIII): Ignorance and Want

Christmas Carol has targets in mind and it isn't Ebenezer Scrooge. Charles Dickens is after Ignorance...

December 18, 2012

Christmas Carol (VII): The Ghost of Christmas Present

Ebenezer Scrooge has refused to make merry on Christmas and so Christmas jests with him....

December 06, 2012

Christmas Carol (VI): Ghosts of Christmas Past

Unlike Ebenezer Scrooge, the memories of my Christmas past are happy. My parents worked hard...

December 04, 2012

Christmas Carol (V): On Marley’s Message

He is a ghost, not a musician, old Jacob Marley, but his message, though less...

December 01, 2012

Christmas Carol (IV): Average Christmas

Dickens made me love the biffen so much I named a cat after the apple....

November 2012

November 29, 2012

A Christmas Carol (III): Let Us Keep the Feast

I like giving gifts and I like receiving them. This must be understood or nothing...

November 27, 2012

Christmas Carol (Part II): Improve the Union Work Houses!

What to avoid feeling like Scrooge? Recall all the tax money you paying to help...

November 26, 2012

Christmas Carol (Part I): It is Bad to Be Scrooge

Your favorite television show must do an episode based on it. It will not be...

June 2012

June 21, 2012

Why I Quote the Bible more than Sarah Palin

Some people are so interesting other people give them credit for witty things they did...

June 05, 2012

And so it goes. . .

And so it goes. If a person or idea dies in Slaughterhouse Five, the Ecclesiastes...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

We are DOOMED!

Rome was not built in a day and it did not fall in a day...