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July 2019

July 22, 2019

We Should Not Wish to Own the David (Florence should keep it.)

It is so beautiful I will not use the picture I foolishly took: The David. I...

July 21, 2019

Knowing and not Knowing: An Idea Might Not Have Those Consequences

Sometimes ideas have consequences: good and bad. Often people who hate an idea will pretend...

July 20, 2019

The Problem Is Easy, the Virtue of Moderation is Hard

Whatever your point of view, Christian or atheist, Republican or Democrat, pointing to “the problem”...

July 18, 2019

Hope in God, A Reasonable Act (Habakkuk)

Do you ever get tired of the times? I do. Sometimes I am tired, just...

July 17, 2019

Don’t Devour the Poor (Habakkuk)

Do not devour the poor. When the weak are despised by the elite, the rich,...

July 16, 2019

In Wrath Remember Mercy: Not Self-Esteem, Know Self (Habakkuk)

LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I...

July 14, 2019

No Verse 14, Without Verse 13: No Glory with Injustice (Habakkuk)

I long to see the glory of the Lord, but I cannot see His glory...

July 13, 2019

Living By Faithfulness : History and God (Habakkuk)

God is with us: justice with mercy are certain. And yet. And yet we will...

July 12, 2019

You Would Not Believe if Told, But Don’t Worry You Will Not Be Told (Habakkuk)

5 “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing...

July 11, 2019

Hope in God (Habakkuk)

Don’t despair: there is hope. There is hope in God, if not so much in...

July 10, 2019

Dialectic of Hope, Dialectic of the Prophet (Habakkuk)

There is hope: hope for all of us who see injustice first in ourselves (God...

July 08, 2019

God Spoke (Thanks Mom!)

My Mom and Dad never just give a birthday card: they underline, consider, and try...

July 01, 2019

Berkeley is Beautiful

I spent several Glorious Fourths in Berkeley, California. Perhaps, the most old fashioned rousingly patriotic...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Arise, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Our Ministry to those with Special Needs (Guest Voice)

I am thankful to know His Grace Bishop Thomas, a teacher, leader, and compassionate man...

June 20, 2019

Finding the Room (Team JOPE!)

Hope (the Fairest Flower in Christendom) had to find the room in which I was...

June 16, 2019

Smooch! (On Father’s Day)

My father is profoundly good and most of us cannot just go do as he...

June 15, 2019

Insolence is more to be extinguished than a conflagration. . .

248 Insolence is more to be extinguished than a conflagration.* So said Heraclitus: the wisest...

June 14, 2019

Hades and Dionysus are the Same

243 For if it were not to Dionysus that they made the procession and sung...

June 11, 2019

The Artful Knavery of the Intellectual Class Today

Too often education, even classical education, is training in pompous “assery:” training in the jargon...

June 10, 2019

Be Wary Of Learning Many Things (Heraclitus!)

Wisdom cannot be Googled. As a kid growing up, I did not have Google, but...

June 09, 2019

Daddy King (The Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.) an Autobiography

The famous son should not overshadow the great father: there would be no Martin Luther...

June 04, 2019

What no man should want: A Lesson from Harriet Vane (Dorothy Sayers)

A curse might be that a male gets what he thinks he wants. If all...

June 01, 2019

Christ Washed The Feet of Judas (George Marion McClellan)

Mary and Martha, prayer and labor, grace and justice: that is the balance we all...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

The (Nearly) Boundless Soul (Heraclitus)

232 You would not find out the boundaries of soul, even by travelling along every...

May 30, 2019

The Monotheistic Turn Toward Philosophy and Science: Against Polytheism and Atheism (Heraclitus)

250 Those who speak with sense must rely on what is common to all, as...

May 29, 2019

When the Athonite UFOs Land (I fail to explain UFOs Just Like Everyone Else Just Now)

We have never met living beings from another world. There are UFOs. Will we contact...

May 23, 2019

The Character Is the Thing (Heraclitus)

“The Devil made me do it.” A cheeky television catchphrase from my boyhood begged indulgence,...

May 22, 2019

God Gives a Sign (Heraclitus)

To get us to adulthood, God speaks in signs to His children. He wishes us...

May 21, 2019

Many gods, One God: Zeus Found (Heraclitus)

The soil under my feet was yellow dirt with small rocks and the sky above...

May 20, 2019

The Enduring Truths Of Fairy Tales

One night my parents had a meeting, who knows what tedious committee work was up,...