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March 2017

March 14, 2017

In Which A Group of Americans Capture the Spirit of Honduras

Once, not so long ago that I have forgotten the details, we were with a...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

The Mentalist is a Good TV Show Like Life is a Good Cereal

Sometimes a man wishes for great television and sometimes he just wants to enjoy some...

February 08, 2017

Before You find Obi-Wan, Know You are Luke

The speeder driving, womp rat killing Luke Skywalker had not done anything to be ready...

January 2017

January 14, 2017

Oh Tammy! (Debbie Reynolds RIP)

Rest in peace, Debbie Reynolds. She was actually a Reynolds and there aren't many famous...

November 2016

November 01, 2016

Help Us Obi-Wan Kenobi: You’re our only hope.

I loved the film Star Wars from the start, because it was fun and too much...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Microsoft: Breaking Up Is Easy To Do

Dear Microsoft, The Surface Book is a beautiful piece of hardware. The ability to function...

October 03, 2016

All Hallow’s Coming- On Devils and a Party

I lived between two Halloweens: the time when Christian kids dressed up and had fun...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

In Which I Dialog with Not Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What follows is the correspondence between myself and a person who is Not Dietrich Bonhoeffer....

September 09, 2016

Trek to the Stars: Thank you Gene Roddenberry, fellow humanist

I know: he was a secular humanist, taking the Christian humanism of Erasmus and stripping it of...

July 2016

July 02, 2016

My Life Long Pal: Three Things to Learn from Daniel Reynolds

Today is Daniel's birthday. . . not the prophet, but my brother. My mother used...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Faster, Stronger, Better. . . Meh (The Six Million Dollar Man)

We lost our television in odd circumstances. Daniel and I liked going to church and...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

My Big Fat Greek Morals Go to the Movies: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

This is not a movie where spoilers are possible because this is a pleasant little...

February 2016

February 08, 2016

Star Wars, David Bowie, Hillary Clinton, and Peyton Manning

Last month my feeds were dominated by Star Wars, David Bowie, and Peyton Manning. Great...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Preservation Hall: A Good Thing in America

I am already tired of politics and nobody has voted yet. Democrat and Republican: my...

January 11, 2016

Bing and Bowie: the Old Order Changes

David Bowie is dead. Many (all?) of my students will have to be told who David...

November 2015

November 25, 2015

Holiday Advice: Dealing with Your Crazy Evangelical Uncle

Evidently giving advice about how to handle the stress of what the Victorians called "social intercourse"...

November 22, 2015

Five Horrible Ideas for Thanksgiving Dinner

Times are bad as times often are, yet in the week ahead we will pause...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Dear Mr Starr

Dear Mr Starr, They tell me in this fiftieth year of the Super Bowl that...

October 30, 2015

Fear Not!

Monsters scare and yet fascinate little kids. Just as Mom and Dad find it hard...

October 27, 2015

Heavy Lifting: Grow Up, Get a Job, Raise a Family, and Other Manly Advice

If a certain kind of book must be written and read, a warning should flash...

October 26, 2015

Three Lessons from Steve Jobs: the man not the movie

See the next World Magazine for my review of the new biopic on Steve Jobs....

October 24, 2015

Maureen O’Hara: A Pleasant Time at the Movies

Today we went to see the movie about Steve Jobs . . . more on...

October 16, 2015

Rest in Peace Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

As a little boy, I saw images in a textbook of French Revolutionaries delighting over...

October 13, 2015

Why Do Smart Atheists Believe Dumb Things?

At any point when I engage with village atheists (not professional philosophers) my students will...

October 11, 2015

We are not Sims: We are Free

When I was younger, I loved playing "simulation" games. You could pretend to build an...

October 10, 2015

The Hollow Men Online

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

On Blood Moon Prophets and Memory

There will be an interesting astronomical phenomena tonight and some Christians have gone quite mad....

September 24, 2015

The Muppets: A Show Not Bad Enough

Watching the première of The Muppets would have been boring if it had not become...

September 10, 2015

Hollywood: What I Hope You Learn from “War Room”

Hollywood (Holy Wood) is named after the True Cross and it has been a true cross...

September 07, 2015

Did Prayer make “War Room” Number 1?

Jurrasic World just passed one billion in global box office, nobody is drawing theological conclusions about...