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April 2020

April 22, 2020

Finding the Word Beyond Our Intellect (Old King Coel and Dorothy Sayers)

I was low and should have been. And then came a word from God and...

April 20, 2020

The Beginning and the End of Fire (Saint Constantine and Dorothy Sayers)

Earth and water and air- but the beginning and the ending is fire; Light in the...

April 07, 2020

Learning from Thomas During a Pandemic (Guest Voice Jill Bergen 3/3)

For the duration of the pandemic, I have decided to focus on the positive. Dialectic...

April 05, 2020

Learning From Thomas During a Pandemic (Guest Voice Jill Bergen 1/3)

For the duration of the pandemic, I have decided to focus on the positive. Dialectic...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

Baseball Opening Day in A Very Hard Year: Hank Greenberg in 1938

They had opening day in 1938, but in the shadow of World War II and...

March 11, 2020

How to Defeat What We Fear (Plagues and Dracula)

Fear dismays and disarms. Love keeps calm, carries on, even if carrying on is a...

March 10, 2020

What We Fear (Plagues and Dracula)

What we love defines our best possibilities and what we fear our worst. Love, desire, can be fuel...

March 09, 2020

Academy Scholar and Holy Fool: On the Wisdom of the Uncredentialed

By the grace of God I am a Christian, by my deeds a great sinner,...

March 08, 2020

The God of Music: William Shakespeare, A Christian’s Song of Worship

Just now when we are once again being asked to choose between secularism, killer of millions...

February 2020

February 23, 2020

The Pitiable End of a Noble Sort of Secularism (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

When you argue with a friend, you try to be charitable, understand where he is...

February 22, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic: In Summary (Guest Voice: Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 14, 2020

Too Brittle for the World (In Memoriam)

Our pain, my pain, your pain, some we caused, some I caused, pain is real. What...

February 13, 2020

Love is Hidden (Jane Eyre)

Love is the goal, getting to absolute romance is hard. If I could pick anybody to...

February 10, 2020

You Cannot Use Caps to Do Away With God: Metaphysics by Capitalization Part II (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 08, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic (In Which Guest Voice Jeff Williams Let’s Me Have It!)

Background on the Discussion: What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 06, 2020

Physicalism of the Gaps! A Reply to Jeff Williams

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

February 05, 2020

Dialog with a Critic: Further Remarks on Morality (Guest Voice: Jeff Williams)

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

February 03, 2020

Dorothy Sayers: the Great Person as Writer

A writer like Dorothy Sayers presents problems for a program exploring great works of art....

February 02, 2020

Smuggling Morality into the Amoral: A reply to Jeff Williams

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

February 01, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic – Further Remarks on the Grounds for Morality (Jeff Williams)

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Guest Voice: Reading as a Pathway to Freedom (Jack Franicevich)

When you know bright people, sometimes they say things so well, you know other people...

January 29, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic: Responding to an Illusion about Metaphysics and the Moral Law (Jeff Williams)

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

January 28, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic: The Metaphysical Illusion of Moral Law (Jeff Williams)

What is happening? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we need...

January 26, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “A Knock at Midnight” – Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (7/7)

Seven days of listening to anointed preaching is good for the soul. Martin Luther King...

January 25, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “The American Dream”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (6/7)

To the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. pressed for solutions to the...

January 24, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “Guidelines for a Constructive Church”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (5/7)

God’s church must be built and sustained God’s way. What is that way? Reverend Doctor...

January 23, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (4/7)

Listen, then read the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Do so in parallel with...

January 22, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “Unfulfilled Dreams” – Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (3/7)

Listen to the sermon. Listen to the people interacting with the preacher, changing the sermon...

January 21, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (2/7)

The African American Church had the experience and intellectual resources to produce and deal with...

January 20, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “On The Drum Major Instinct”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (1/7)

Martin Luther King was a pastor descended from pastors. Recall that when King was introduced...