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March 2020

March 02, 2020

Affluenza and Education

I am from West Virginia, a part of the United States with a proud culture,...

March 01, 2020

Terminal Boredom as Enemy of Education

Technology allows me to travel with hundreds of books downloaded on my mobile. There are...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

Don’t Panic! Educate!

Do not panic, educate. This is good general advice for every time, even this time...

February 28, 2020

Down with Argumentum Ad Snobbinem! (Guest Voice: Dr. Eric Holloway)

Some rhetorical devices come at a cost. A recent series of guest posts aroused the...

February 27, 2020

“Pandemic” or Words That Frighten Us: Keep Calm, Carry On

Keep calm. Carry on. Be careful about words and how they can roil us. I...

February 26, 2020

The Story Will Save Education

Much was anticipated long before the coming of the Christ by the philosopher Plato. He...

February 25, 2020

Wonder and False Wonder

The just live by faith. This is the Orthodox, classical, Christian school: faithful to what...

February 16, 2020

Christian School, not Church School? The Eastern Solution

Theological education was less a product of the theological schools and more in the monastic...

February 14, 2020

Too Brittle for the World (In Memoriam)

Our pain, my pain, your pain, some we caused, some I caused, pain is real. What...

February 13, 2020

Love is Hidden (Jane Eyre)

Love is the goal, getting to absolute romance is hard. If I could pick anybody to...

February 09, 2020

You Cannot Use Caps to Do Away With God: Metaphysics by Capitalization Part I (A Reply to Jeff Williams)

Background on the Discussion (Skippable): What is going on? If we wish to follow the...

February 07, 2020

The Flu

I could see the end of the hall. I had to get there. My next...

February 06, 2020

Physicalism of the Gaps! A Reply to Jeff Williams

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

Bearing the Cross (David J. Garrow)

Bearing the Cross This is a history of the Southern Christian Christian Leadership Conference and...

January 29, 2020

A Dialog with a Critic: Responding to an Illusion about Metaphysics and the Moral Law (Jeff Williams)

What is going on? If we wish to follow the Logos where He leads, we...

January 27, 2020

Whither? Whence?

Whither and Whence? Some mistakes are so easy to make, it is hard to see...

January 26, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “A Knock at Midnight” – Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (7/7)

Seven days of listening to anointed preaching is good for the soul. Martin Luther King...

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 24, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “Guidelines for a Constructive Church”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (5/7)

God’s church must be built and sustained God’s way. What is that way? Reverend Doctor...

January 23, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (4/7)

Listen, then read the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. Do so in parallel with...

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 21, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (2/7)

The African American Church had the experience and intellectual resources to produce and deal with...

January 20, 2020

Taking Sermon Notes “On The Drum Major Instinct”- Listening to and Learning from the Reverend Doctor King (1/7)

Martin Luther King was a pastor descended from pastors. Recall that when King was introduced...

January 18, 2020

Humility and Eager Considerateness (I Clement)

For as God lives, and as the Lord Jesus Christ lives and the Holy Spirit...

January 17, 2020

If you are not against me. . . (With a Digression on Timeshares)

“If you don’t buy this timeshare now,” he said to us, “then you will regret...

January 15, 2020

Things Change, Most Change is Hoop La!

Most change, like most things, is good. I was reading a story about how younger...

January 14, 2020

On Animal Suffering: Further Questions from a Thoughtful Critic

God loves animals, declaring them good, saving them from cataclysm, bringing them forward to paradise....

January 13, 2020

On Animal Suffering: A Response to a Thoughtful Critic

Animal suffering has always bothered me and cruelty to animals was viewed as a barbaric,...

January 12, 2020

On a Chum Doing the Right Thing

Well done, good friend. God sits in Heaven and brings everything to goodness, truth, and...

January 11, 2020

On Animal Suffering

Animals hurt. Thousands of animals are being burned alive in Australia. This has always deeply disturbed...