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July 2024

July 03, 2024

Yet I Love Her: History and the Church

Unless your mother was the Mother of God, then she will have had her faults....

June 2023

June 15, 2023

He Thought He was Right: Liberality Must Kiss Righteousness

My great-grandfather was once asked: "Brother Reynolds do you think you are right about everything?"...

February 2022

February 19, 2022

Prayer for a Just Peace in Europe

Things were almost worse. Give thanks for the cold warriors and the American Christians wise...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

King Jesus and the Martyred Gregory: An Example for Our Time (Greek Independence Bicentennial)

The way is shut. It was shut by the martyred dead and only on the...

March 29, 2021

The Ad Celebrating Greece that Facebook Will Not Run: Solidarity with the Greek Republic and the Greek Bicentennial

Can Facebook cancel Greek history? Why would they try? Or are they merely unwilling to...

March 08, 2021

Losing is No Virtue, Victory at Any Cost Can Be Worse: An Argument in Favor of Civility in a Nation Seeking Justice

Are you tired of losing? Good. Any Christian citizen or subject of any nation will...

February 2021

February 02, 2021

Aspiring, Hoping to Love America (Unknown Black Poet 1848, A Lady)

I meet people who cannot love their motherland. These are usually those who were told...

December 2020

December 15, 2020

Bet on the Fairy Tale: the Enduring Queen Outlasts Augustus

Bet on the fairy tale. Not the Hallmark version, but the hard Grimm truths that...

December 14, 2020

And Mary Said (The Politics of Christmas?)

The politics of Christmas are the incarnation of jollification: the righteous losers end up winning,...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

Prayers for our Leaders

Social media reminded me that four years ago last week, I began to pray for...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

On Debating

What good is a debate? Debating is a good way to find out the merits...

September 26, 2020

Disqualified? the ACLU doesn’t care? No Religious Test!

For a Black American that went to a certain church, some very bright students, they...

September 14, 2020

Other Voices: One Election Perspective from Dr. Holloway- “Election of the Parasites” (Other Points of View to Follow)

My job precludes any public endorsement for President. There is (and has) been so much...

August 2020

August 14, 2020

Without a Better Vision: the theology or philosophy of an administration and the future

Analysis of the race: This election, like most elections, hinges on the theology or philosophy...

July 2020

July 23, 2020

Allow the Diversity of Life

Every aborted baby looks alike, but every child allowed to live becomes absolutely unique. Abortion...

July 11, 2020

Keeping our Brothers and Sisters

Moral men have a duty to help their neighbors, but nobody has an obligation to...

July 10, 2020

God Bless the Romans

The nuns get to live and do charity as they believe right. They are not,...

July 01, 2020

Why do tyrants always behave stupidly?

Read about the downfall of any tyrant, even a less than awful one such as...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

On the Russian Revolution and Today (Do not be a Robert Service)

If you assume something is true, then showing that it is true is easy. Contrary...

June 24, 2020

On Guns in Private Hands

Shooting is a hobby, a means of self-defense, and a bastion against tyranny. Guns also...

June 21, 2020

A Reading List for This Election (At the Request of a Former Student)

I am a small government conservative, supportive of the free market. More fundamentally, I am...

June 19, 2020

Juneteenth! Let Freedom Ring!

Happiest Juneteenth! On this day, one of the last outposts of the Confederacy, Texas, got...

June 13, 2020

Timing is Everything (The Discussion of Philosophical Motives)

On Charity with a (fairly) Uncontroversial Point for Christians Christ commands us to love our...

June 11, 2020

Exhaustion, Moral and Otherwise

Some things we cannot control. Other people decide differently than they should or things just...

June 10, 2020

Something to Read Just Now (Ten Books I Find Helpful)

What to read this summer? This week two helpful books stood out. One was the...

June 08, 2020

Losing, Winning, Losing, Won

On Winning and Losing Losing is no virtue, but then neither is winning. The Soviets...

June 03, 2020

Needed Leadership and the Limits of Leadership (Missing Thatcher)

Margaret Thatcher makes pygmies of many of our present leaders on both sides of...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

A Virtue of “Just” Praying

What should we do: to end potential war between India and China? to secure justice...

May 28, 2020

Consider Systematic Problems

Yesterday, a person started ranting about a particular failure and how people needed to "get...

May 25, 2020

The Venerable Damiane: the Prayers and Music Endure

Do not despair, lose hope, say a prayer, fight for freedom, write a hymn, save...