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May 2020

May 21, 2020

Confidence in Peace, Help in the Crisis

XVI. He who receives no help when at war should feel no confidence when at...

April 2020

April 04, 2020

American Madness (Frank Capra Relevant Today)

If you want some economic advice from a man who got America through the Great...

April 02, 2020

On Misreading Winning and the Mandate of Heaven (St. John of Damascus)

Times look bad and the temptation is to extrapolate from who is "winning" just now...

March 2020

March 29, 2020

Common Ground: Science, not Scientism, Unity, Not Dissension

Scientism Apparently saying we should listen to scientists when they speak about their specialty, but...

March 25, 2020

Intended versus Unintended Consequences: A Helpful Distinction

Sometimes the right language can help us make better decisions or think more carefully about...

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...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

Dole or Romney or Winning (The State of the Race)

As a Bull Moose Republican, I am without a party at present. Sadly, the Democratic...

January 2020

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 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 19, 2020

The Democratic Nomination (Where it Stands)

The election is about Trump, the Democratic Nominee is a Choice Between Two Options An...

October 2019

October 14, 2019

Shades of Andy Johnson- Love or Hate It: Our Official Foreign Policy Comes from Our Elected POTUS

Today the New York Times sent me an update on impeachment that said: What Ms....

October 12, 2019

Why does Beto hate the Nobel Prize Winner?

God bless historical Aksum, the Christian state of Ethiopia. God bless Prime Minister Ahmed of...

October 08, 2019

On Impeachment: Nobody Knows

Nobody knows what will happen in the next year. The magi have been overturned and...

October 03, 2019

Our Leaders Should Be Happy, Not Happy (Republic IV)

Let’s see justice and become just. This is so uncontroversial, we might be bored. We...

September 2019

September 16, 2019

Love of Place and People (Shakespeares’s Richard II)

Times were bad, but rebellion was not the answer. Truly gruesome people often rise to...

September 15, 2019

Frittering Away The Kingdom in a Party (Shakespeare’s Richard II)

Richard II, at least as portrayed by Shakespeare, frittered away his Kingdom on trivial pursuits...

September 07, 2019

Prosper and Repent (Richard III)

Perhaps we can find someone to do some evil for us that good may abound...

September 05, 2019

A Saint for Our Leader? (The Problem of Winning and Shakespeare’s Henry VI)

I have been told Americans elect a president and not a pastor. This is true:...

September 03, 2019

Finding Someone Else to Hate (Henry IV, Part I)

Beware the temptation to find unity in hatred of a common foe. Shakespeare starts his...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Extremism in Defense of Liberty Is a Vice

I am a conservative politically: a man of the Shire. I don’t trust Ted Sandyman’s...

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 04, 2019

The Glorious Fourth (Paraphrasing Lincoln in Divided Times)

At this eighth Fourth of July since joining Patheos, there is less occasion for an...

July 03, 2019

The Under 52% Suggestion (Presidential Update)

What is the state of the race? We have an incumbent president slowly moving up...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Summary of the Democrat Debates

Since 1861 the Democrat Party was not going to win with a vote from the...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

The Daughters of Union Veterans- An Increased Devotion

On several Memorial Days in Wayne County, New York, I gave the address for the...

May 25, 2019

Fight for the Law as for the Wall (Heraclitus)

Build that wall if you have good laws. The law is why cities build walls...

May 16, 2019

God is Great as Opposed to Degenerate Democracy (5/5)

Having killed millions, atheistic socialism finally found victims unwilling to die or at least able...

May 15, 2019

Ideological Man: Degenerate Democracy (4/5)

No idea is so good an ideologue cannot make it monstrous. An ideologue turns a...

May 14, 2019

The Temptation of Politics: Degenerate Democracy (3/5)

Politics is everywhere. Try to think of one area where you have not run into...