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August 2026

August 05, 2026

Classical Education and the Art of Dying Well

An Education for Paradise A Certainty Classical Education Cannot Ignore "Nobody is sure of much,"...

July 2026

July 07, 2026

Golden, Golden, Golden: My Mother’s Last Lesson

Getting to the Bottom of Things Mom taught me to "get to the bottom" of...

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...

September 2024

September 21, 2024

Baby Anna Beans

Whim Wham, our brilliant grand, approached the water reverently. She was holding a can of...

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....

July 02, 2024

Vain Repetition

Of all the vanities, the vanity of vain repetition may be the worst. I have...

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...

December 14, 2023

Silence and Jollification

Christmas is coming and so we hush in hopeful anticipation. Anticipation right before a big...

September 2022

September 26, 2022

You are God’s Joy

We are God’s joy. God loves us, all of us, despite our wandering far from...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

The Silent Trumpet Sound

The trumpet is gone, no clear notes sound in our house. The first time I...

March 08, 2022

The Supreme Beauty of Truth and Christianity

To see correctly, even for a moment, is splendid. As a child, I was so...

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...

February 18, 2022

Myself

GEORGE MOSES HORTON, MYSELF I feel myself in need Of the inspiring strains of ancient...

February 17, 2022

Facts, Not Negotiable, but Not Everything

Facts are not negotiable. Mom’s decisions could be. Our children learned that if they could...

July 2021

July 01, 2021

The Beautiful Book in a Beautiful Cosmos with the Beautiful People

The good Book is beautiful. The beauty of the Book of Books points us...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

Invincible Love

Speak the word of hope. Words in the mouth of God create the reality in...

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 26, 2021

Understanding the Beloved (Language and Evidence)

If I had known Hope better, I would have been less, hopeful, about our first...

June 25, 2021

Making Room for the Baptist Daily

The Baptist came from the wilderness. He did not party. He came crying for righteousness...

June 24, 2021

Fiery God Making and Manifesting Glory

When God became a human being, a real man named Jesus, we gained a way...

June 23, 2021

Knowing the Ancestors: Necessary for Classical Education

Dad posted a picture of both my grandfathers relaxing with friends and I am made...

June 21, 2021

One Music Lesson Amongst Thirty-Five Years

Hope is a classically trained musician, trumpet, a reader, a mother. She insists on having...

June 20, 2021

Pentecost! (Guest Voice: Bishop Thomas)

We need fathers, patriarchs, in an age with too few true fathers. Bishop Thomas often...

June 19, 2021

Thank God for the Patriarchy: Dad, His Dad, and all the Dads

1Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us. 2The Lord hath...

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 16, 2021

A Sick Day, A Good Day

A bit of personal history and a small point: Once, just once, there was a...

June 10, 2021

The Ascension: Summation of the Christian Life (Guest Voice-Bishop Thomas)

The great feast of the Ascension of the Lord is a summation of the entire...

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 05, 2021

A Daughter’s Wisdom: Rejecting Elsie Dinsmore, Loving Jesus

To be a parent is to let go: to teach another human being to think,...