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August 2019

August 23, 2019

Profound Love: Achilles and Patroclus

Friendship is powerful, perhaps the most powerful, of all the loves. David loved Jonathon. Naomi...

August 22, 2019

Men Are Human, Women Are Human . . . An Insight from Homer

I read Iliad as a boy . . . Badly. I wished to see Helen,...

August 21, 2019

Never Marry An Angry Man: Achilles is not a Catch

Now I surely cease my anger; it is not fitting that I be wrathful, unrelenting...

August 20, 2019

Never Have Paris (Iliad)

He is so unbelievably shallow, he could only be played by Orlando Bloom: Paris of...

August 17, 2019

The Endless War from the Missing Voice: the Male and Female and Troy

The missing voice destroyed even the victor. The war lasted year after year, long past...

August 15, 2019

The Old Men of the Iliad: God Help Us

Listen to the old men and women, even if they tend to natter. So the...

August 14, 2019

All’s Well that Does Not End Well (Guest Voice: Jill Bergen)

I asked for guest voices and today I am pleased to introduce a voice that...

August 13, 2019

Ancient Witches XIII (Oh!) (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

August 12, 2019

A Prey for Dogs and Vultures OR Nobody is a Red Shirt to God

Captain Kirk famously went to planet, meeting green women and logical puzzles, but the men...

August 07, 2019

Catholic for You, Not Me: A Lesson about Vichy

Imagine a religious right run by a serial adulterer and a political opportunist. In 1940...

August 06, 2019

Oh, Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History (Charles Williams)

He was the Victor of Verdun and if he had died an old man, he...

August 03, 2019

Ancient Witches XII (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

Patience at the Play (Pericles) or Joy serves the Patient

So on your patience evermore attending, New joy wait on you. Here our play has...

July 29, 2019

Beware the Argument from What Isn’t There in Literature

The Old Books of the Bible Come to Us Through Scholarship Thank God for Biblical...

July 28, 2019

Ancient Witches XI (Guest Voice James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

July 26, 2019

A Father of a Daughter (Shakespeare’s Pericles)

A father of daughters hears a new voice every time his daughter speaks. He hears...

July 24, 2019

Where Taste and Story Meet (Guest Voice: Christie George)

I asked for new voices and have received some wonderful writing. Here is a piece...

July 18, 2019

Hope in God, A Reasonable Act (Habakkuk)

Do you ever get tired of the times? I do. Sometimes I am tired, just...

July 17, 2019

Don’t Devour the Poor (Habakkuk)

Do not devour the poor. When the weak are despised by the elite, the rich,...

July 16, 2019

In Wrath Remember Mercy: Not Self-Esteem, Know Self (Habakkuk)

LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I...

July 15, 2019

Ancient Witches X: Guest Voices (James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

July 14, 2019

No Verse 14, Without Verse 13: No Glory with Injustice (Habakkuk)

I long to see the glory of the Lord, but I cannot see His glory...

July 13, 2019

Living By Faithfulness : History and God (Habakkuk)

God is with us: justice with mercy are certain. And yet. And yet we will...

July 12, 2019

You Would Not Believe if Told, But Don’t Worry You Will Not Be Told (Habakkuk)

5 “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing...

July 11, 2019

Hope in God (Habakkuk)

Don’t despair: there is hope. There is hope in God, if not so much in...

July 10, 2019

Dialectic of Hope, Dialectic of the Prophet (Habakkuk)

There is hope: hope for all of us who see injustice first in ourselves (God...

July 07, 2019

Ancient Witches IX (Guest Post James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...

July 06, 2019

“Backwards” Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Myth Exploded

A middlebrow social media site, often witty, described pre-Revolutionary Russia as “backwards.” This was twitty...

July 05, 2019

Intellectual Impatience (Philosophy Helps!)

We are building a building and for that we need an architect, engineers, and other...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Ancient Witches VIII (Guest Voice: James Harrington)

I asked for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...