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September 2026

September 09, 2026

Rooted: Why Classical Education Needs Community

| Image courtesy of the author. Community Incarnates Classical Education I sometimes read from my...

July 2025

July 14, 2025

The Old Words Are Helpful

Dad is gone. I keep wanting to call him. I need his advice. He is there...

June 2025

June 30, 2025

When the Center Holds: A Tribute to My Father’s Legacy

Thankful That the Center Held I have seen the end, and in the end, the...

July 2024

July 01, 2024

History and Hidden Ethics and Philosophy

Beware hidden assumptions in histories. Too often one gets third rate philosophy the historian cannot...

June 2024

June 29, 2024

Dangerously Credentialed Minds

The Reality Deniers Communism in the Soviet Union was dying. The evidence was everywhere, but...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

One Weeping Icon at Christmas is Enough

I saw an icon weep. I did. I can use a search engine and so...

June 2023

June 14, 2023

The Power of Dissenting Societies: A Thought

Live joyfully. If we live by love, then we can build something good, true, and...

February 2022

February 22, 2022

Words, Reality, and Happy Birthday

A Little Argument Recently a man made a little argument about words: "Words mean what...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

Peter and Paul and Difficult Questions

Paul and Peter are often portrayed together: two apostles with contrasting, but not conflicting messages....

June 27, 2021

Total Opportunity: Apply Today

Have hope. There is a possibility of glorification if we wish. This is not, naturally,...

June 18, 2021

Oh Moth! (The Eagle isn’t Coming to Isengard this Week)

We are not just animals. There is a greater purpose for each of us: a good...

June 17, 2021

Our Scientific Salvation Will Be The Death Of Us (Guest Voice: Eric Holloway)

Will we trust "the science" (meaning the scientists) to the point of madness? Dr. Eric...

June 06, 2021

Two Dead Rats in a Trap

I once decided that our future prosperity could be secured by purchasing Southern California real...

June 01, 2021

The Ancient Discovery of Common Theology to Save Our World (Guest Voice: Dr. Eric Holloway)

What if we turned from academic theology to “common theology?” Would we find intriguing ideas...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

Likely Wrong: Biblical Egalitarianism Regarding Some Religious Roles is Implausible

Sometimes the angels are not in the details, but the general structure. Advocacy scholarship can...

May 27, 2021

Not Just Cake: Why Music Matters

Two principles regarding treats: A man can live without cake and cannot live on cake...

May 21, 2021

But the Controversy the Controversialist Said!

An old classic rhetorical juke of the heretic, Arius was first master, is to claim...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Washing, Eating, Drinking, Glittering with Glory and Seeing Divinity (Pascha Almost Here!)

We do what we must, take joy when we can, knowing an eternal holiday is...

April 13, 2021

Horrible Idea: On “On Critical Race Theory”

There is a horrible idea regarding "critical race theory." This bad idea has nothing to do...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

He was born in the Tomb of Agamemnon (Happy Bicentennial Greece!)

Make history. Tell a story and root that story in the people, family, and times....

March 24, 2021

Hellas: With No Monument to Preserve Her Except that of the Heart

Rootless, lost, unattached, homeless: these feelings overwhelm those who forget the mothers and fathers that...

March 16, 2021

Searching for Truth: On Pragmatics, Babies and Bathwater

A good life is more than pragmatic, but does take into account what works. If we are...

March 12, 2021

Underdetermined

I never have a pass on making a bad argument. No scholar should claim more...

March 09, 2021

On Genuine Morality Without God?

Wisdom cries out, but we often miss her voice. We are too busy and too...

February 2021

February 21, 2021

On Language: Ignoring Context and History Leads to Grotesqueries

Consider the power of language to liberate or brutalize. We can all learn from one...

February 03, 2021

The Black Authors Who keep Teaching Me (A Collection of Reflections)

This month I am sharing my reading of Black American poets in the nineteenth century....

January 2021

January 31, 2021

Ten Ways to Avoid Getting Duped by Information

I once called the eminent scientist Alfred Wallace, "Lord Alfred Wallace." He was not a...

January 27, 2021

The Church is One

The Orthodox Church is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church. The Church is one,...

January 20, 2021

Beautiful You

Beauty pierces. Beauty creates desire, shows that we want or need something, and so drives...

January 18, 2021

Don’t Make the Objective Subjective

God created humankind in His image. He also created a cosmos where we could act...