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January 2020

January 18, 2020

Humility and Eager Considerateness (I Clement)

For as God lives, and as the Lord Jesus Christ lives and the Holy Spirit...

January 17, 2020

If you are not against me. . . (With a Digression on Timeshares)

“If you don’t buy this timeshare now,” he said to us, “then you will regret...

January 12, 2020

On a Chum Doing the Right Thing

Well done, good friend. God sits in Heaven and brings everything to goodness, truth, and...

December 2019

December 22, 2019

The Haunted Man (Dickens and Christmas) Part I

Dickens’ last Christmas story, The Haunted Man, is inferior to A Christmas Carol and the story most popular...

December 16, 2019

If Ignorance Were Bliss: then Dawkins Would Be Happy Much of the Time

From Richard Dawkins’ Twitter feed: Surprised by common reverence for Plato. Alexandrians like Eratosthenes made...

December 02, 2019

The Deplorable Mr. and Mrs. Wilson

Some things look solid, but are full of air: think paper mache stuff. President Woodrow...

December 01, 2019

On the Hero Versus the King or God

Why can I adore Arthur, but root for Belvedere? As a child I wanted Arthur...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

A Small Thing About the Thing One Should Do (Aeneid and Virgil)

Of all the great things one can learn from Virgil’s Aeneid, and a great man...

November 19, 2019

Avoiding Mr. Collins: Help us Jane, You are One of Our Few Hopes!

Grasping for good things, can make us a bad thing. Imagine a church leader currying political...

November 15, 2019

If the Magic is Real (Ethics and Limits in Shakespeare’s Tempest)

The Magic is Real If magic were real, then what would you do with (say) an...

November 11, 2019

Finding Wisdom Even in Apparent Folly, Questions Matter (King Lear, William Shakespeare)

Education begins in wonder, asking the right questions, and never ends. That’s great, but if we...

November 10, 2019

Being Cordelia: She Would Not Flatter for a Kingdom (King Lear, William Shakespeare)

Lying to the Leader: Self-Dealing or Clever? Would you tell the leader, a President, Pope,...

November 09, 2019

Thwarted Ambition? Avoid “Edmunding”

My Brother Being Mean Did Not Justify My Taking His Candy When I was a...

November 07, 2019

Wife, Mother, the Holidays (Somewhat Cautionary Advice from William Shakespeare in Coriolanus)

A Man’s Wife and His Mother: How is it going? Every so often I run...

November 06, 2019

Success is not the Answer. . . (Coriolanus, Shakespeare)

The Mob No more talking on’t. Let it be done. Away, away!* So says the...

November 05, 2019

Imperfect, Perfect (All’s Well, Shakespeare)

Nobody’s perfect. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill...

November 04, 2019

A Life in Books: Three Things Gandalf Would Have You Read (Phillip E. Johnson)

I have known Socrates and Gandalf, or at least men in this life who modeled...

November 01, 2019

On All Being Well (Some Shakespeare)

We do not, of course, always know what is good for us. Our choices tend...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Don’t Listen to the Witchy Witches, the Rest Mayhap (Macbeth)

The Witch or the Wise Woman Beware witchy witches and fight demons, but if you...

October 25, 2019

How to End up at Castle Dracula

A vampire sucks the blood of the living, but only to stay undead: the perfect...

October 23, 2019

Avoid Satanic versus Socratic Questions, Ask Good Questions Well, Even If the Answers . . . (John Milton)

God give me better questions so I can love You better. The way forward is...

October 19, 2019

As God Likes It (Shakespeare!)

God is good and life is in God’s hands, so Scripture teaches and William Shakespeare believed....

October 18, 2019

The Beloved is a Profoundly Wonderful “Whatever”

It is clear then that the essential object of love, or the Beloved, is “whatever.”...

October 17, 2019

Knowing Self, God Knowing Us (Bonus: On False Stories about Gods!)

Philosophy, the love of wisdom, begins in knowing self. This is not the “self-knowledge” of the...

October 16, 2019

Under the Plane Tree: Wisdom Needs Time

Discussion. The dialectic. The Socratic Method. The Way of Jesus. Call it what you wish,...

October 15, 2019

Go to the Countryside . . . At Least for a Time

PHAEDRUS: I come from Lysias the son of Cephalus, and I am going to take...

October 10, 2019

Education: Not Giving Sight to the Blind, Turning the Icon Toward the Original

Professors are not giving sight to the blind, but turning a soul made in the...

October 09, 2019

Filling in for an Absent Friend

Absent friends, those who have gone ahead of us in death, make doing alone what...

October 07, 2019

Threnody gone through Therapy? (A Thought From Republic)

As Autumn comes, I am happy, Christmas is coming, but I am also reminded of...

October 06, 2019

The Mind was Willing, the Passions Were Weak, but God Willing, We Can Overcome

A Near Thing I miss beauty, truth, and goodness, because my mind and spirit are...